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t- ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - SEPTEMBER 11,2000 18 Mayor Probst added that on-street parking occurs in this neighborhood and this creates a very narrow street for emergency vehicles to travel through. He felt that the City Council had the responsibility of looking out for the neighborhood as well as other members of the community. . An audience member suggested that the streets be posted for no on-street parking. Mayor Probst stated that here must be a civil discussion in order to get through this issue. He acknowledged that there will be disagreement between the Council and the residents and he stated that the Council wanted to hear the resident's opinions, however, he did not believe it would help to debate whose opinions are correct. Mayor Probst stated that he supported Staff's recommendation regarding street widths. Councilmember Grant asked how a consensus can be reached on this issue since the Council seemed to be divided. Mayor Probst had hoped that the Council would not have to vote on each issue, rather he had believed that the Council would reach a consensus on each issue and take one vote on the Resolution. Councilmember Larson suggested that if certain issues do not have a broad consensus, those items could be taken to a vote with the result being passed on as direction to the City Engineer. Councilmember Aplikowski stated that the City should postpone the entire project since she felt that the City was so far away from any sort of agreements. She stated that the City Council has . the options of either accepting the City Staff's recommendations, accepting the original feasibility study, or postponing the entire project since this issue has moved far away from the City's standard procedures. She stated that she was not comfortable with taking these issues piece by piece since all involved have their own opinions and that she was hesitant for the Council to be voting on each issue. She suggested that City Staff review the City pavement policy and, if extreme exceptions are going to be made, then the policy must be changed. MOTION: Councilmember Aplikowski moved to postpone the decision on the 2000/2001 Street Improvement Project and to direct City Staff to review the City's pavement policy in order for an understanding and agreement to be reached regarding the street widths in the Ingerson neighborhood. The motion failed due to lack of a second. Councilmember Larson stated that a vote should be taken and he was willing to accept being on the minority side on this issue. He noted that the City Council will be recommending to the City Engineer and Staff further revisions to the feasibility study which will be brought back once again to the City Council for a final decision to be made. Therefore, there will be at least one more review of the project. He acknowledged that all parties involved in this decision will not necessarily agree on all aspects, however, when this occurs, the City operates under the concept that the majority rules. .