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14 .. MRS. KRISTINE POELZER, 1870 Indian Place: I'm a member of the Finance Committee and I chatted brei fly last night with Dean Crockman who is a member and unable to attend this evening. He asked me to bring up two concerns of ours. One is that tonight we'd like to have some feed back from the officials who worked with the Task Force and also the Council in general as to the way in which this would be financed. I think at least this is what Mr. Popovich was indicating, is that we'd like to have some kind of idea, if that's possible, even though we're aware that the Council could not be held accountable for the next year. The other thing we'd like to discuss is - we have reviewed the report of June 2, 1980 and on page 20 it indicates that the extension of the pedestrian walkways across property such as Flaherty's Golf Range and the Texaco station (inaudible) In looking (inaudible) County Road E, we were wondering if we could be given a date or some insight as to when the old Texaco Station in particular will be (inaudible). We'd also like to know if there's some possibility of further consideration for bike paths. This is my personal point of view as a resident of Arden Hills. We bike quite frequently from where we live at Lake Johanna beach to McDonald's to have breakfast and it's horrible to cross the (inaudible) to McDonald's and for some reason this has caught my eye and I'm looking forward to having some kind of traffic signal there so we could easily cross the left hand turn into McDonald's. I'm concerned about a bike path along County Road E and (inaudible) at Lexington there would be (inaudible) continuing it but a left hand turn lane would be helpful for the bikes too that are going to the YMCA and I'm (inaudible) the bridge - it's very narrow and I don't know what can be done but I feel that because the bridge is narrow and because the east side of Lexington is not necessarily beneficial for a bike path that shouldn't eliminate doing something about a bike path on County Road E.Maybe with the sidewalk area there could be something there dividing that area for bikes. I have some concern also about channeling walkways through a parking lot with cars backing out and what not, and people walking by there. If there's room for a sidewalk I would prefer a sidewalk rather than having people going through a parking lot. If someone can give us some insight as to the redevelopment of the Texaco station that would be helpful. . MAYOR CREPEAU: Anyone else have a question? 11R. ROD SCHUMACHER, 3140 NO. Hamline: I'm a little concerned about the tone of this meeting. It doesn't seem whether the public approves or not, but how far do we go and how do we finance. I personally have never heard that we needed a downtown area and I'm not sure we need one now. In fact, the location is quite removed from the center of the village. The first gentleman, I thought, did an excellent job about the condition of that road, which is a beautiful road. Now we want to destroy the whole thing, yet he's telling us there's no real traffic problem