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Council Minutes of 12/16/97 a look at this location and come up with afact-finding report with recommendations. Between the period of January 1 of 1994 and November 3 of 1997, we have had 23 accidents that we can attribute to the curve at that particulaz intersection. Mr. Griffith's major recommendation is to rebuild the road to reduce the severity of the curve. He also made four minor suggestions: • Increased police radar coverage in this area, which has been done. • Relocate the CEI pole which is located on the west side of Claque Road. This pole is currently about 3 foot, 6 inches from the painted roadway edge line, and the next pole, which is south of that, is 8 foot, 10 inches off the roadway. Relocating this pole about 8 feet offthe painted roadway edge line would move the object that currently gives the southbound drivers reasons to keep away from the right edge. This would decrease the probability of crossing the center line. • Place a ground mounted arrow warning pointing south on a CEI pole above the existing speed limit and the outlet sign in front of Claque Road at 4015 Claque Road. This pole is actually on Virginia Avenue. Or the alternative, replace the existing overhead flashing yellow lights with an overhead mounted arrow warning sign. It is apparent that the flashing yellow lights are not very effective. • The next time Claque Road is resurfaced, place raised pavement mazkers along the center line and on the edge of the pavement for about 500 feet in each direction on the curve. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Michael Gareau, 24344 Beech Lane. Mr. Gareau thanked Mayor Boyle, Finance Director Burns, Council President Boehmer and Council Member Lind for their yeazs of service to the city and wished them the best of luck. At this point in the meeting, several citizens and business owners from the Bradley Road area spoke about their feelings on the ordinance to rezone the area from light industrial to single-family residential and the ordinance authorizing the city to purchase property in the area for recreational use. A lengthy discussion ensued between the neighbors, Mayor Boyle and members of Council. The following people spoke on these issues: Tina Hadsell, 30840 Bradley Road. Mayor Boyle commented that Mrs. Hadsell probably wanted to know if the city planned to take her property by eminent domain. He told Mrs. Hadsell that he would be very much opposed to taking her property by eminent domain. Mrs. Hadsell commented that she has been a resident of that area for over thirty years and has never complained about the parking problems, the leaf pile or the snow fence that is put up during the soccer tournaments. She asked whether anyone had done a feasibility study on the size of a little league baseball field as she does not feel the property in question is large enough for a baseball field. Also, she is concerned because there is a 12 to 15 foot drop from the front to the back of the property. Mayor Boyle said that the fields could be placed sideways and does not believe the property has such a large drop-- no ball field is flat and he believes this property will drain very well. Mr. Limpert noted that the property will not be purchased immediately and the new administration will need 5