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From YouTube: 3.13.2023 Pannaway Manor Sidewalks Project Public Meeting

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3.13.2023 Pannaway Manor Sidewalks Project Public Meeting

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Slideshow create my.

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Name, do you ever run a tv set.

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So um uh we have our entire team here that uh as we're working on the sidewalk project, because all right.

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About a year now that we've been working on this, so we've had a couple of different public meetings.

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uh So tyler reese is actually the guy running a slideshow. It's actually going.

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To be our construction inspector out on the sidewalk project this year, so you should get.

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To know him, while you're here uh mark that shoulders, our project manager he's different.

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Design project again, I'm being the closest um construction manager, stephanie cords.

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Here and she's, our uh kind of our liaison electrical point works um actuators here.

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The green shirt on and the third row- and this is our three artworks for the city.

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Either, races in the back, that's where he always is a couple of secrets.

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So if you guys want to introduce yourself um to the counselors okay city, council, member, hello,.

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Thank you for coming back tomorrow.

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And, uh alas, but certainly not least, mr jack wyman's here from guilford, and he.

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Is our contractor building the sidewalks out there with his team, of course, so.

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um Next slide, so, as you know, uh is there anybody here that didn't go to the design games.

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Okay and youtube okay, so what we're doing is we are. We are committed to building in the.

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Outer ring of sidewalk, I gotta be careful. If I touch this is gonna change, so I go. uh There's.

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The entrance where's the address, okay thanks. So uh basically everything that's shown in this blue.

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Do you see blue from back there? uh Anything that's on this auto ring here is where the sidewalk goes.

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um This there's also a little like a sidewalk, that's going to go to the park.

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uh But other than that, the uh the little courts and terraces don't get sidewalks and the inner.

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Part of piano way is, is in a separate layer phase. So for now, what we're concentrating on is colonial.

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Drive and we'll be removing the sidewalks on both sides of the street and installing a new, concrete.

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Sidewalk on the outer side of the street, so as you're driving around the side, that's on.

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The on the outer perimeter is the side that gets the sidewalk all the way around any of the trees.

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That are marked with the x's are the ones that are planned for removal for the sidewalk project.

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um We also uh when we're at this. I mean we also talked.

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About new paving, so we were able to leverage enough funding to.

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While we're up there so we'll be reclaiming the roads and away matter uh resetting manual.

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Growers putting uh there are two layers of pavement down and, of course, we have.

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To wherever we cross, the driveway we'll have to rebuild the driveway so that uh as you're going.

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Down the sidewalk in a wheelchair and then ceiling cap accessible, so driveway has to be.

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Certain cross slopes and we'll make sure that they're high enough to the water it's getting.

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Water stays on the road doesn't go down to private driveways, so all those grains will.

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Get adjusted and the part of the sidewalk that goes away the inner, the inner sidewalk. If you.

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Will uh goes away and that that area gets filled with mold and grassy, so there'll be.

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One sidewalk on the other side of the street as a permanent feature of the construction.

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To the road, is that going to be pulled back or is it.

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Going to stay and you're just pulling the sidewalk just pulling the sidewalks nope.

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Next, uh so we are looking at the off-site work, so the other thing that people ask us for as.

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Part of the design that we worked on was uh hey. The sidewalk leading out of penway is is awkward.

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You're right, it was awesome. So um what we're showing here? uh We did it as an adult we had.

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The money for it so we awarded it- um is uh the sidewalk starting in front of a list of academy.

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uh Is going to get replaced the sidewalk um on sherman road? On the other side, the.

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Bridge is good. The sidewalk over the bridge is obviously good nobody's calling to the bridge.

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um Like starting in front of the lister academy, and going literally to where the.

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Somewhat awkward, corners and walkway forward um that whole sidewalks any difference. Thank.

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You so uh you'll have you basically have a good sidewalk all the way out to where the bridges.

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That crosses railroad tracks and, as you know, the sidewalk system continues done more quickly.

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So you get you get out of out of being away that way, you can go down. Of course, the bike.

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Path or go over to distance the street, you know multiple ways of accessing in a way the uh foot.

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Traffic now so this is slide one. Basically, it is a go back one. Please, there's a crosswalk over to.

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Where the old store was uh just to get people across and basically the sidewalk is going to.

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Get replaced more or less in time instead to be concrete and we're installing curbing on this.

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Section there's so much traffic. Now we wanted to make sure that the pedestrians had a good.

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Experience as they were as you're walking out of the neighborhood okay and then um the change.

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The change from what's there now is that uh right now this is the um the apple door, medical report.

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That's what it is, so uh the driveway get through the driveway or department right now. They have.

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That decel lane that they, they really don't need. You should be traveling fast enough. You need me.

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To do something, this is no longer a state road that has all the traffic on it that it did years.

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Ago so we're taking out the diesel lane we're going to straighten out the sidewalk in there.

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um Move the curbing out and then the crossing will be here now so this crossing that's awkward.

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Crossing uh which nobody has ever liked is going away, so those crosswalk markings are gone.

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This section of the sidewalk is being removed and then we're going to cross people in the narrowest.

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Possible spot that has good sight distance. So it's when we plow and everything we'll be going. This.

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Way through this island and back on, and then this section of sidewalk is all brand new there's no.

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Sidewalk right there, so we've got to do a little tree clearing to make that happen and we'll be.

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Building sidewalk there, so that's going to be the new testament. Are you going to have the lights.

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Like you do on the other one, because that turned coming off of 33, whatever you're calling it around.

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That people scream around at that light to go into the hospital right where they're crossing over.

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Yes, there's going to be a blue light um mark actually asked me to call in the work order.

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Perfect so we'll light up that that area well, so the pedestrians are well lit uh and then we're.

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We're taking away some of the paint area here, kind of section, a look a little bit more and we are.

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Proposing a three-way stock: now it's going to be a controlled session where people are stopping and.

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Thank you. It's my job every day as a public service disappoints.

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Yeah, I understand we'll make sure we use big white, stop bars and new. Stop signs.

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So hopefully that all becomes so better. So that's my plan next slide.

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So um today we've got a schedule for this alignment, so uh essentially the.

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Last week of march, first couple weeks of april, uh where we were removing the trees.

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um In the neighborhood, so we're going to start in the neighborhood and start working our way.

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Through and then uh the sidewalk removal itself of the old sidewalks uh is planned to take about.

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A month, uh meanwhile, we'll be constructing the new sidewalk right behind. Actually, oh everything.

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Will be planning on as we start so uh that's april and may and then restoration. Those first.

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Couple of weeks in june, so hopefully we get grass growing before it gets hot. That's carnival blend.

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And then the off the outer neighborhood area along sherman greenland road tree clearing, is.

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After these trees are cleared, we're going out here and then removal the sidewalks following.

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The neighborhood and then installing the curbing along the side of the road that we talked about.

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Construction of the new sidewalk restoration, we're hoping to be done. Everything by mid-july.

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This presentation will be online for everybody, so they don't have to remember the schedule. The.

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Other thing you remember, instruction is variable. So despite jim's best efforts is our sometimes.

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Things get slowed down or speed up, so it's approximations sure these are I mean these are.

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Temptative schedules, but they give you a pretty good picture of what that means. There's the paving.

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On the roadway paving on the runway is kind of in the middle of all this, so we'll probably tearing.

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Off the sidewalks running up the road, so one of the things we like to do is we actually like to.

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Build a sidewalks off the binder called the binder pavement, which is a structural layer.

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Of pavement, the first one starts with the second one to kind of seals off the water, so we'll kind.

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Of be working on all that to make sure that when we pave, we have to make sure that we have good.

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Grades so we hit all those sketch bases uh and the road drains right. The sidewalk system after that.

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Same contractor.

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um Different contractor, but it's a contractor that the lineups higher on their own all the time.

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So they we work pretty full, it's the same actual setup as we just did on stage.

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This past several reasons: cabinet union area that was the same same type.

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You never know what's like okay, so these are the uh these are just all our contacts.

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And questions? Okay, if you have a question about this process, yeah.

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um I have one of the homes where my front yard is probably about a foot higher.

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My concern was how far into my yard are going to be chasing roots yeah afterwards,.

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However, if something is kind of underground- and it's not really in the way.

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But but we're not going to leave you with no problem at my gas line.

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So anything like that, we will work with the gas company what we typically do if.

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It's truly advantage. What we do is the gas company will show up they'll squeeze off.

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The line set your gas supply off and then you have, the gas line does get infected.

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A sidewalker I'm going the kids, you know, yeah a bicycle joke.

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Very high 471. chronicles, yeah yeah we'll bring our bmx and stuff again so, along.

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Those lines I've got a similar thing. I've got an exposed route from the tree. That's.

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Coming down that, I bet it goes 20 feet into my yard, and I mean it's big. You know it's not.

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Material cement right concrete, yes,.

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Almost right, yes, okay, we have a question from robert rubin.

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Can you hear us uh yep? I can hear you hi. This is uh ruben. I live at 337 colonial uh drive.

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I had a question here: could you please go to the very first slide kind of show: everybody's property.

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Reuben we can't hear you, um can you write the question in the chat and.

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We'll we'll answer you hear me give me one second, um you can't hear me.

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Get the light inside. Can you hear me now? Is that better, but yes, um sidewalk construction? Please.

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Do not park on sidewalks, then you can have a giant problems with that all over the manner.

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I won't be there.

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uh Can you hear me okay,.

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Hello, uh no okay: uh I walk away uh sideway room walkway butts up right up to the sidewalk and I've.

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Got a pretty good-sized granite step that a butts right there? Is it just a matter of coordinating.

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With that contractor for those individual type of things, we'll make sure that yeah yeah, so yes.

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Is planning on doing some work in this that they're going to be tidying with this or.

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Is this good air waiting to see what happens, what it looks like when the trees get removed.

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And see if there are any additional.

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Work that needs to be done, whether it's just limiting or what so you're you're absolutely.

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Correct, in fact I was talking about you- have a social supervisor about this. The other day um they.

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Need to go through the entire neighborhood and upgrade all the poles all the wires and they're.

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Kind of waiting to see because they were going to plan a project and do pretty much the removal.

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Yeah well, hopefully, we can max and work with them and we'll keep it to another. Okay.

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Sometimes there needs to be yeah, I mean they don't like to have any wires.

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um So if I had a question online, um I actually lived on sherman ave.

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One off-road where you will be putting the sidewalk yeah about.

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Mixing the grass and adding a curb um in front of my home from the planting bed. If you want.

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To follow up the map again laughs, more right there, so you and I chatted and I actually wrote a letter.

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To the city council- and I have yet to hear from anybody- my home sits here placed a planting bed.

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That has been maintained beautifully quite some time. However, I've granite curbing place right here.

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I have asked that we cut that granite curbing in and follow the sidewalk with no grass to allow.

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Parking because the park receives a lot of traffic yeah- okay, because I'm not seeing it in here.

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Because I'm I'm, assuming that this was all still grand, this was all still grass. This is grass yep.

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It's this section here, that's going to be parking well, I had asked to actually keep the granite to.

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Go straight across and follow it through, because when that planting bed was put in the front of my.

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House was dug up clear to my driveway and then, when I had pointed the pad out, because I have a.

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Mud pit that I had a dumpster full of rocks placed in front of my house, and it was never addressed.

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So I would prefer the granite be taken around to the sidewalk there and follow.

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The sidewalk not just in front of my house, but also here as well. There is green space.

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There, what was what was put in front of my house, destroyed the front of my house.

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um And I've been you're welcome to come visit. It now take a look at it. We'll take another look at.

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It so you are not putting grass in front of where your plate replacing the trees. It's going to be.

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Granite curving to allow for parking at the park, yes were, those were those two trees are shown to.

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Be removed, yes, we're extending the asphalt all the way to the to the front edge of the.

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Sidewalk for this curve, that's what's one half of my driveway. Yes, I wanna. I would like it to.

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Be continued on the other half of it and that's what I would like. But I think there were some.

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Reasons, but that's what the planting bed does. Okay, that's the purpose why we did the garden.

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There's a storm drain that goes in there awesome. Thank you. Did we ever get anything back in chat.

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Yeah, my chat's muted, it says I can't type anything. Can anybody hear me.

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Squeeze two or three parking spots to be on the beat hello.

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Say the first 30 or 40 feet down to get to the sidewalk that goes up around the playground and.

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That gate wasn't there or was pushed further into the park. Could you squeeze like a four or five.

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Parking spots just inside the entrance to the park, because apparently the park has become known as.

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A place where younger teams can come and practice, as opposed to being like a neighborhood playground.

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Because we see teams practicing out there, I'm not sure who they are, but when they do show up.

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They park all over this little dead industry and straight through the center of it. We had football.

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Practice there one afternoon that took off both sides of the roads, it's also impossible to do a.

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Three-Point turn out of my driveway, because people are constantly parked right there to the right at.

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The end of my driveway, that is impossible. Yeah we've had people drive into that planting bed.

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um It's it's a nightmare. I have to tell you, I see what you're saying, but those two trees, you're.

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Putting we can take another long, sidewalk parking which will give you a spots. This is going to be.

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Like yeah, if you went in just beyond that white sign, if you're trying to pull in.

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And turn to your left arc. Is it jogs in there is it? The gate is further than the.

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Sign yeah: well, it's it's deep enough for a parking spot. You can park the car in there.

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Anyway, definitely, I would like three parking spaces in front of the house.

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Two on one side of the driveway and one in front of the house.

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Products we'll review that one more time. Thank you appreciate it now, just to remind.

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You there's a waterline very good. Just inside the boat has been used in years.

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It hasn't been that long. Thank you.

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Ruben raise his hand against yeah. Okay. Can anybody hear me here.

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Can anybody hear me.

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Hello, can anybody hear me yeah? Unfortunately, we can't hear you reuben, so anybody here we asked.

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You to put a chat in so we could respond to you, hello, you disabled, the channel, we're not gonna.

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Be able to communicate tonight so, but you can call us if you look at the. uh If you can hear me.

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If you can look at the contact information tomorrow, you can call us directly and.

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And talk to us directly we'll write an email, okay, anybody else have any questions.

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Okay, great to see you.

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So the schedule will be on the website.