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Monday February 27, 1995 John Heuster, 19834 York Street NW. Thanks us for the opportunity to respond. He thinks that there are some neighborhoods that are really look good because they are neat, clean, nice lawns, and are not crowded together. "They are something to look at." He believes some of the newer developments, particularly the ones east of Highway 169, are just poorly done, they are crowded, trees have been taken out, they have managed to crowd as many houses they possibly could on a 1/3 or 1/4 of an acre. " I don't know how small they are but strictly Elk Hills is just incredibly small." He thinks that putting a park and walkway in the old hardware store spot is wonderful. His concern is for the historical aspect of Elk River, as many of the historic buildings have been lost, like the creamery, train depot, etc. He suggest that we do an inventory of what historic places we have; the residences, businesses, and expand to special places like natural features like forests. To build the new Texaco and Mork Clinic, some of the old, historic places were taken out. He believes that we could do better including low income housing, which is a major concern. He also believes that the east west thoroughfare would be run through wilderness park and affect that in a major way. Taking park land is not the option, but he believes that we do need a corridor maybe north of CR 33 so the park land is not violated. Tuesday, February 28, 1995 Bill Jay Dry 15981 227th Avenue. Thinks that having a comment line is a great idea. He believes that we need to adhere to our mottle "Where City and Country flow together". He believes that the rural atmosphere is what brought most of us here. "As the city grows, we become more susceptible to the very problems and complications that people moved here to avoid. A well planned separation and sizing of commercial and residential land uses is one key to a pleasant living environment. Keep the traffic and noise confined to the highways and design the traffic pattern right the first time. Don't diverge traffic from many parking lots to one intersection, especially without a traffic light. Don't make parking lot entrances a tight squeeze for bigger vehicles, one example is the first right turn from north Freeport into Pamida parking lot and then the first left turn to enter parking lot. If you need to add convenience stores in residential areas, keep them on one small block off of major thoroughfares and no closer that 3 or 4 miles of each other in a residential areas." On regards to a theme for new development "we already have one use it" City -making goods and services available, country -trees grass, rivers and quiet. He thinks we should require developers to retain most of the existing landscape, apartment complexes no more that one dozen units and 2000 yds of each other. Subdividing large portions of land to make big bucks at the community's expense should not be allowed. For ideas on visual impact, he thinks that we should visit other City's and require that homes and yards be well maintained -don't allow junk piles in view of the road, paint be decent, lawns be kept mowed, contract services for these items, subsidize, or add to the monthly utility bill. Slowing traffic by culdesacs and other designs in residential areas. He thinks that we could make better use of area lakes and rivers, walking and bike paths with minimum commercial setbacks. Horse riding and raising is quite profitable, horse