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Council Minutes of 8/18/2009 an improvement, an advance to democracy. He thinks the important thing to remember about the Constitution is the emphasis on individual rights. 50, although we have a democracy and need it at certain times, a democracy is mob rule. It's five wolves sitting around the table with a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The importance of the United States is the stress on individual rights. He thinks the other items in the legislation are creeping paternalism in government that isn't the function of government. Although he wears his seatbelt, he doesn't think the government should be forcing people to wear their seatbelts. As to child restraints, he thinks it's the parent's responsibility to strap them in, not the government's right to force people to use seatbelts. As to the marijuana possession, again it's individual rights.- He can drink; he should be able to use drugs if he wants to without the government telling him what to do. Crimes associated with drugs, like robbery are crimes. Instead of going in the direction of increasing fines for these things that are already against individual rights, he thinks it would be nice if someone were to speak up and say we should go in the other direction and recognize individual rights. 4) Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive, regarding 2009-85, there are over six pieces of legislation floating around Congress in the House and the Senate. This is a moving target. There isn't a public official he knows of who has read the 1,000+ pages in the one document. He thinks proposing this resolution is way out of line. This is a federal issue, not an issue for North Olmsted. He would encourage Council to vote it down. 5) Jeffrey Sturgeon, 3092 W. 231, would like Council to look into the idea of changing the ordinance which does not allow dogs into our parks. 1-Ie believes it is an old ordinance-possibly 2S or 30 years old-and certainly not enforced. More families would go to the parks if they could bring their dogs. Most people don't even know about the ordinance. Perhaps the ordinance can be changed to limit dogs at Homecoming and to assess a fine if the owner does not clean up after the dog. He would like Council to discuss and consider this suggestion. Regarding the banners for the auto dealers, if those are going to be used as advertisements, perhaps we have missed a chance to get some money from these dealerships. It would have been a perfect chance for some money to go to the schools, at least to buy a piece of equipment. It could be a one-time fee or a yearly fee, but he doesn't think it's fair that they're getting free advertisement. They got free art work, and there are a lot of businesses in North Olmsted that would love to have that opportunity. Regarding the traffic study for Stearns Road, will a noise study be done as he thinks that would go hand-in-hand with the traffic study? Mayor O'Grady said any change in noise from a vehicle traveling 45 mph instead of 35 mph would be negligible. The bottom line with that area is there are sound barrier walls regardless. Noise is not the question. It's simply a question of what is reasonable. What we have found and what studies have shown clearly is that people generally drive a reasonable limit for the conditions of the road. If a road is posted at 4S and it's got a lot of curves in it and it's a narrow road, people will drive 25. On the other hand, if a road is posted 35 like we have, and really the conditions are it's flat, it's open, with sound barrier walls on either side, it's straight, people tend to drive at a reasonable speed for their cars. What we're finding is we're writing a lot of tickets, and so is Westlake. What we need to do is conduct a study and find out what the limit should be in that connector area between Lorain Road 11