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Council Minutes of 3/7/2006 available. Do we choose to place a patrolman on the street to monitor speed? If so, at what speed does the patrolman stop, warn or issue a speeding citation? Do we choose to barricade our street to any and all through traffic? Personally, she and her husband would prefer that the street be blocked off to any and all through traffic. If the vehicles continue to go around the barrier, they'll cut down Esther only once if barricaded. She does understand the concerns of the school issue. She is willing to provide her driveway to the police to place a patrol car. She thanked Councilman Barker, Councilman Miller and Mayor O'Grady as they were quick to respond to her a-mails and personally came to her home and street. She is reassured government can and does work for residents. Mayor O'Grady and Councilman Barker thanked Mrs. Kesel for the information she has provided to the city and for keeping them apprised of the situation. The speed sign will be placed on Esther Avenue tomorrow. Hopefully, the southbound only traffic pattern during construction will be better for citizens. Joseph Bouman, 27501 Butternut Ridge Road, noted that, when I-480 was developed, Fairview was supposed to have their own exit. Somehow, they prevented that from happening. The W. 227 Street bridge was to provide for traffic flow when the exit was eliminated. However, a "politically connected" person changed that. He intends to make this a personal issue as he does not believe Fairview Park has a right to close the road to two-way traffic. Tom Anderson, 4355 Clague Road, lives between Esther and I-480. He is concerned about the time when the road becomes southbound only. When his family is not able to get into their driveway and must park across the street, his wife will have to take two small children through traffic and a construction zone to get into their home. He believes traffic should be limited to residents only during construction. Also, he would like to see the speed limit reduced and perhaps stop signs placed on Clague Road. He noted W. 227 Street has six stop signs from Lorain to Brookpark. During construction, Clague will be a one-way street with construction vehicles, personnel and residents having to dodge traffic of people whose only concern is how long it is taking them to get to I-480. Mr. Anderson does not believe the residents have been given enough information about this project. He would like to see the city provide the residents with placards to be placed in their car windshields. In this way, only the residents will have access to Clague Road. Councilman Orlowski said he had suggested the use of placards some time ago. He also believes the speed limit should be reduced during construction. Mayor O'Grady said the city had discussed using placards to identify residents who must park overnight on the street. Instead, it was decided not to enforce the overnight parking ban. There are other measures the city can take. For example, tonight legislation will be introduced to allow the Safety Director to temporarily amend the Traffic Control File to place barriers, traffic control signals like stop signs on a temporary basis and do that immediately without the need to come back to City Council and request legislative authority to do so. With regard to stop signs, Councilman Gareau noted that stop signs cannot be used to control speed. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, said the W. 227 Street bridge was a political hotbed. Maybe W. 227 Street should be opened up because Fairview Park is nothing but a grid of crossing streets with stop signs. 12 .~~=,~