7.1. SR 10-15-2007 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Maurer, Terry From: Wendy Simenson Sent: Wednesday, August 2 , 2007 11:02 AM To: Maurer, Terry; Mehelich, Catherine Subject: Downtown Street Reconfiguration Hi Terry, I think that your plans for the street by RiversEdge Commons Park are very aesthetically pleasing. I did not say much at the meeting on Tuesday night because I needed to weigh having the street closed for that length of time versus having it look nice. I don't want to seem short sighted becauseI think there is definitely value in what you are proposing. However, the downtown businesses are still pretty beat up from the street closures and traffic disruptions that have adversely affected our businesses during the last year. We all live in dread of having to live through that again. The project would probably be more palatable if it didn't require closing the intersection and thus the streets. What other ways of handling the project have you considered - maybe forgoing cement in the middle of the intersection - that would still provide the pavers and changed street width without having to close the streets and steering our customers away from downtown? Wendy Simenson