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Council Minutes of 3/1/94 Westlake so that they can be aware of the project's status. Mrs. Bahas commented that she was aware of the poor condition of Alexander Road. The city is trying very hard to make up for the neglect of the past forty years. However, it does not make sense to repair the street only to rip it up again to do the sewer work. A member of the audience questioned Mr. Bohlmann as to why Alexander Road was not going to be replaced with concrete. Mr. Bohhnaan stated that theme is only sc- much money to do this work and many streets need to be repaired. We are trying to do as many streets as possible with the money that is available. Mr. Germ asked Mr. Bohhnanii what was going to be done to the street this year. Mr. Bohlmann said that the street would be cold patched temporarily. When the hot patch plant opens in the spring, the city will do hot patching on the street. Mr. Germ feels this would be a waste of money, and the city should just wait and do the job properly next year. He also stated that his back yard is in a flooded condition every year uxttil June. He had been promised that the drain tiles in his yard would be connected to the Rice Ditch, but this was never done. Mayor Boyle said the city has affected many in~rovements since 1990. He is not debatitig that things were done wrong in the past, and he is not shirking the respon~bility for correcting the things that were previously done wrong. However, there is no magic wand. Mr. Lmd suggested that Mrs. Huth act as a liaison between him and the Alexander Road residents so that everyone can be informed. Jim Coufalik, 25129 Mitchell Drive, wanted to bring to Council's attention the traffic ~"` problems of the residents living between Great Northern Boulevard and Columbia Road. The access streets to this development are Mitchell Drive and Westview Drive. The two problems are: 1. The westbound Lorain Road traffic backs up in the turn lane, especially on holidays and on the weekends. 2. Residents are not able to safely exit Westview Drive onto Lorain Road. The problem exists both eastbound and we~bound but is particularly bad for westbound traffic. The reason for this problem is a right turn arrow at the Shell station at Great Northern Boulevard and Lorain Road. It allows traffic to begin to move shortly after the eastlwestbound traffic ceases. There are approximately two to three seconds available for Westview traffic to pull onto Lorain Road. Mr. Coufalik requested that the city traffic engineer look into these problems and consider the following solutions: a. A second optional turn lane on Lorain Road into Great Northern Boulevard; b. Remove the right turn on red arrow at the corner of Great Northern Boulevard and Lorain Road and make it a no right turn on red. Mayor Boyle agreed this was a problem area and said he would ask the traffic enguieer to look into it. Mrs. Bahas asked that the traffic engineer look into the traffic pattern of the shopping strip located on the south side of Lorain Road and Great Northern Boulevard. ~~ Mr. Coufalik is also concerned with businesses that do not pick up the trash on their properties. He would like to see a city program which would direct businesses to clean up their properties without a complaint being filed by a neighbor. Mr. Coufalik asked 8 ~.~~~ ~ , ,