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I I I Council Meeting Minutes June 10, 1986 Public Hearings, continued Phyllis Reha, 1247 Long Lake Road, supported the detached bike path and urged the council to consider that option; asked how additional right-of-way would be needed to adopt that option as she calculated that the elimination of the bike lane on one side and added that footage to the other side and reduced the size of the bike lane by a few feet it can be done; with regard the arguement of adults not using the bike lane, felt the prob- lem would be with enforcement. Feels most residents favored a separate bike lane for safety reasons, for which the County would pay. Gunderman also liked the detached bike lane idea and asked for demographic data relative to that option; Leonard stated the County Board passed a resolution requesting that with each road improvement a detached bituminous path be considered to get bikers out of the street. The Board appropriates about $20,000 annually for that purpose. Part of the program states that if a City is going to have a detached path, the City will acquire the additional right-of-way that may be required and that the City will own, operate, and maintain the path after it has been constructed. The normal County standard for that path is to have a minimum of eight feet of grass between the curb and the eight foot wide path. Leonard continued that, in developing the plan for this project, the construction was designed for a sidewalk on one side of the roadway with a detached path on the other side. Leonard stated with a 40 foot roadway, which is the selected roadway for this project, a five foot and a five foot on one side, and eight feet and eight feet on the other side, the 66 foot right-of-way has been totally used and most all trees will have to be removed; adding that easements would probably be needed on private property. Leonard stated further that when this project was discussed, those issues were examined, and the proposal ended up with a sidewalk five feet off of the property line on the west side leaving room to accommodate the transition from the sidewalk to meet the existing conditions within the right-of-way; this proposal saved a lot of trees and has ten feet on the east side adjacent to the right-of-way line as the present boulevard. Leonard continued that the required 16 feet for the detached bike path could be accomplished by reducing the road width by not more than four feet and grading the entire area; the feeling was that a lot of the people who are younger would be accommodated by the sidewalk and the serious biker would not use the detached lane; Leonard felt the lane on the roadway would be more appropriate. Page Eight