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<br />Jim March <br /> <br />bject: <br /> <br />Bert Casper <br />RE: Street Lighting in Eagle Pass <br /> <br />Thank you for the e-mail. I will place this item on the next City Council agenda for <br />Council direction. I will let you know the results or you are welcome to attend the <br />meeting. The meeting will be held next week Wednesday at 6:30pm. The City does not have <br />a regulated standard for determining adequate street lighting on curving roads. I believe <br />the engineer has a standard for placing lights on linear streets. The street lighting was <br />paid for by the developer (Gor-em) not Swift Construction. The street lights would have <br />been placed by the Public Works Director (Paul Palzer) and an ex-consulting City Engineer <br />HR Green (Dave Nyberg). The possibility exists to install additional street lights. <br />Whether or not the City Council is willing to pay for the lights or the lights being <br />assessed to property owners is the unknown question. Additional lights could be installed <br />by Gor-em in the areas adjacent to the outlots that they would like to plat in the near <br />future. I hope I have answered your initial questions. I will talk to you next week with <br />additional information. JM <br /> <br />-----Original Message----- <br />From: Bert Casper [mailto:bertcasper@qwest.net] <br />Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:32 AM <br />To: jmarch@goldengate.net <br />Subject: Street Lighting in Eagle Pass <br /> <br />Mr. March, I am a new member of the Eagle Pass Cottages Homeowners <br />Association Board of Directors. I have been asked to check with the City of <br />Centerville about the inadequate street lighting that was provided in our <br />eighborhood by swift Construction, to see what we might do to secure better <br />'ghting on these curvy roads. <br />LS there a city code that specifies the level of lighting required in an <br />area like this? <br />Does the city require placement of street lights at certain intervals, or <br />require that there be street lights visible from various locations on a <br />street? <br />I understand that there is, for some cities, a requirement to meet IES <br />Standards for street lighting. Does ours meet that standard? <br />Was a city engineer, or consultant, involved is deciding where the current <br />street lighting was placed? Who was that? <br />We members of this association pay significant city taxes and school <br />district taxes, but require little in the way of services, and send almost <br />no students to the schools. The street lighting issue is something that is <br />very troublesome to many of our members who are elderly and whose vision is <br />not as good as some younger residents. This is especially true when driving <br />at night because headlights do not follow the path ahead due to the curves <br />in the streets. <br />We do need to have this issue addressed, and the intentions of the city <br />clarified. <br />Thank you for your attention to this situation. <br /> <br />Bert Casper bertcasper@qwest.net <br />651-429-7662 <br />6979 Eagle Trail Centerville, MN 55038 <br /> <br />1 <br />