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. . Who is most likely to use the on road bike path? John Horn stated the competitive biker or biker commuter. John Horn stated the question is do you want the bike path on Old 8 or off? . Heard that Minneapolis had the highest number of bike commuters in the Country. . Build the walkways for the group of people you want, Then those people will corne, . Concerned that this road is so huge. That it may cause division rather than create that community feel that we want. If we have residents on one side and businesses and retail on the othersic1e~lll"9.)Ve creating a barrier of pulling those two together. .. .... . ,..,," ""'.' ,'.""""" ", '" " "" "',, ,"~"~ ' "::':,',:,' ::,::":,::.::t,:,:\:~+'::, '''.>:':': ".::.; , ,"~:::::::::,::: :;., ': '" , ' , "': ~ ',,'" ",'" John Horn stated that there was actuall)1l.l.lot of$1i~.cussion a119ut this. We tried to make this a pedestrianfriendlyenviromp~?t. The~e are some things we have already dOlJe;.~ght no~.there is::a.'pr~1iY wide expanse of asphalt. One thing that waSc1()l1ewas to~ddllie green space median, We also pulled out thelJodes at91.~.. various.~ntersections so that we didn't have parc1llel parking alongellti{erQadway. The nodes pulled out will also l:lctJl~atrafficqalming pie~e;HY ;: ,,',"':"',':::: ;,;:::::;::." ':'>Y:ii;;:'" . Who uses thepw-allel parkirtg spaces? J~9nHSl11~l.statec1itwas mos~!y residential on the east side and mixed 't.~&.residel1~ial and~qmnl~Fcial on the west. . . Wasther~~.off-street parking lot for the businesses and residents? ./:I! seemslik:etherej~a lot of confusion for a short stretch of road. Grl:lI1t stat&d..therewas an off street parking lot; these spaces would be ...... i4.additiontg;She parking lot. ......What is the pOpulation of this development? The age of this population may have a big impact on what kind of sidewalk is built. ApprQximately 2,500 people. . Agree that you build for the group of people who you want to use the paths. We have an opportunity now and don't want to lose this opportunity because we didn't have the foresight. The paths need to connect, and need to go some place. We might be one of the first communities that is biking to work, and we may corne ahead of Minneapolis. Don't like to see mixing the parallel parking with the biking. . Wanted to mention that the rush hour traffic on Old Hwy 8 is very backed up. Want to make sure that this has been taken into consideration. . . Don Heinrich inquired whether a motion was needed for option 1 or 2. Jason West stated that a motion was not needed. The Council just wanted comments and feed back from all commissions. Page 3