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Council Minutes of 2/18/97 not believe the residents of Bretton Ridge will use the new highway on a daily basis. He ,, feels there is a lot of down-side to this road as it will invade the privacy of people's homes and will be an expense to the city. This road will be an invitation for people to get off I- 480 at Stearns Road and cut through our city to get to Westlake. It encourages growth and development on Crocker/Steams in Westlake and at the Promenade. He hopes in the future that the city will have the vision to try to stop overdevelopment and save some of its resources. He asked that Council not vote for Resolution 97-12. Mary Solderitsch, 5682 Allendale Lane, spoke about funding for the sewer renovations in the Allendale/Carey area. When she came before Council in 1995 with petitions, she was told there were no money. In 199b, she was told there was no money. There have been temporary pumps put in at the bottom of the street, and some of the neighbors believe that the temporary measures are permanent and there is no longer a problem. Recently, the city sent the area residents what she said was an "ambiguous" letter asking if they had water in their basements. Most of them would answer no because they think the problem has been solved. However, she knows that the problem is not solved, and she would like to know what plans are being made for Allendale/Carey because flooding will occur again if the temporary pumps are removed. Mr. Bohlmann answered that the city had sent letters to residents in that area who had signed a petition presented to him by Councilman McKay. It was not an ambiguous letter but a detailed letter asking the 46 residents wha had signed the petition when they were flooded and how they were flooded--was it basement, roadside ditch, sanitary or storm, was the water clean or dirty, did the water come through the walls or sump pump. So far, 28 replies have been received. Of those, 14 or 15 people have had some type of family room or basement flooding. Two residents basically supported their neighbors; several other residents had backyard flooding and roadside ditch flooding. The letter/questionnaire stated that, if it was not returned, the city would assume that there has not been any flooding. Since the questionnaire went out only two weeks ago, we will wait another two weeks before tabulating the results. We are currently under engineering services for this area and did apply for Issue 2 funds but were turned down. Mr. McKay asked Mr. Bohlmann to expand on the reasons he needed the information. Mr. Bohlmann said the city needs to know what type of flooding is occurring and where it is coming from to do a complete correction. We need to have complete information to make a correct plan to handle the problem. The temporary pumps will stay until the job gets completed. Mayor Boyle explained to Mrs. Solderitsch that the city has just begun the appropriations process for this year. Mr. McKay and other Council members are very concerned about this problem and will be looking at the appropriations to see if the funding can be provided. However, at this point, the funding is a premature question. Mrs. Solderitsch said that she felt the letter was ambiguous because not everyone knows that temporary pumps are in place. The assume that something was done and, when they got the letter, they threw it away because they are not getting water now. Also, some residents do not want to admit to flooding because they are planning to sell their homes in the near future. It is a fact that the Butternut Ridge Apartments caused the flooding in this area. Mayor Boyle said it is important for the city to know if the temporary measures are working, not to leave the temporary measures in place, but it. would demonstrate that we are going in the right direction. By asking if residents had 11