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where the kids are crossing, and we're going to increase the traffic even more. None of this is going to solve the problem. My suggestion is that you put a traffic light at the driveway to the library, and a crosswalk at the traffic light. That traffic light can just be a blinking caution traffic light all day long, except for that period of time from the school, closing is the biggest problem, I think, when the school closes, that period of time, and then have that traffic light operate. That traffic light and that intersection will allow people to make the left turn off Lorain into the parking lot, and make the other people make their left turn from the library going home to the west. So I would hope that you will pull this from, because it's on third reading, and that's why I had to apologize. I would hope that you would pull this thing from tonight's agenda and reconsider that particular piece of it. If you read the Exhibit itself, the only people who took part in doing this thing, were school people and City people. The library itself was not involved, and the library isn't even a school. I mean, I don't even know if it qualifies for this type of program, whether the pieces that you have to do have to be related to specific school properties. So I think this leads into some further study and some further work, and I ask that you remove it from the agenda tonight. Director Upton: Thank you, Mr. President. Max Upton, Director of Economic and Community Development. The Safe Routes to Schools plan is an ODOT program that is done, by statute, it requires that the school and the City collaborate on the project. The schools share the data as to where the kids come from, in terms of where they live, the schools they come to, the method of transportation they use to get to school. The mid -block crossing recommendation was a result of direct observation on behalf of the traffic engineers, that did the study, that actually watched the kids cross Lorain Road through the library. They come straight north from the school, through the library property and cross Lorain Road headed northbound. The mid -block crossing also, as we discussed in committee, contemplates a pedestrian hybrid beacon. It's more effective in terms of being safe for pedestrians. It's more effective in terms of being cost effective. This is an issue that's been studied for almost a year and a half now, and these recommendations are grounded in the best practices in terms of keeping kids safe as they commute to and from school. Thus the name, the Safe Routes to Schools project. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Jim Burns: Jim Burns, Chamber of Commerce. I wish to thank Council and especially Director Gareau for making the changes to 2025-8 that now make it, to me anyway, understandable and I think better to serve its needs. So thank you. Mr. Bruce Brewer: My name is Bruce Brewer. I live at 4440 Root Road for 51 years. During the process of Ganley and the other car dealerships building their lots on Lorain Road, I attended most of these meetings. Three of the important promises that were made was, they would no longer use the car's emergency horns to locate the cars at the parking lot. Number two, there would be no driveway additionally put onto Root Road. Number three was they would not unload cars off the car loaders on Lorain Road. They have not kept any of those promises. But the worst one is the unloading cars in the middle of Lorain Road. One day in October, I drove down Lorain Road, 02-18-25 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 8