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"'- . Whereas Whereas Whereas . Whereas Whereas Whereas Therefore . PETITION to the CITY COUNCIL of ARDEN HILLS Re the so-called "Ingerson Project" Bo~~ \V/lO/OO r C;+y~! ~- On September 11, 2000, City Council directed BRW to develop a third feasibility study for the Ingerson Project and requested a street-by-street assessment of the need to reconstruct each particular road, and further requested certain other design objectives to be incorporated into the feasibility study; and The community expressed a number of concerns with the Ingerson Project, such as overdesign, excessive costs, failure to consider aesthetics, and destruction or serious alteration of neighborhood character, and in particular questioned the necessity and justification for road reconstruction of specific streets, and further questioned several aspects of the proposed surface water management plan, and BRW's new feasibility study fails to provide the requested street-by- street assessment and to address other City Council directions and questions and fails to respond to most of the requests from the Citizens Task Force appointed by the City Council, and Cost estimates as projected in the latest feasibility study appear excessive compared with costs obtained by the citizens of other municipalities, and The Pavement Condition Indexes for Ingerson Road, Fernwood Street, Fernwood Court, and Hamline Ave. (south) cited by the feasibility study exceed the number commonly used by other communities to make decisions about total road reconstruction, and The firm conducting the feasibility study and making reconstruction recommendations to the City Council will benefit from its own recommendations, an obvious conflict of interest, We the undersigned respectfully petition the City Council to 1. Reject the feasibility study in its entirety. 2. Return to its previous street-by-street approach to street maintenance for the In~lerson neighborhood and for all Arden Hills neighborhoods. 3. Avoid the potential for a conflict of interest by any firm hired by the City by ensuring that a firm commissioned to do a feasibility study will derive no benefit from its own recommendations.