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<br />Page 1 of2 <br /> <br />Kim Moore-Sykes <br /> <br />From: Dan & Mary Capra [capria@comcast.net] <br />Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:02 AM <br />To: Moore-Sykes, Kim <br />Subject: FW: Medians <br /> <br />Hi Kim, <br /> <br />Would you include this in the packets for the next council meeting. <br /> <br />Thanks, <br /> <br />Mary <br /> <br />-----Orlglnal Message----- <br />From: GaryandConnieSchmidt [mallto:GaryandConnieSchmidt@comcast.net] <br />Sent: Monday, November 01,20047:12 PM <br />To: countyroad14@co.anoka.mn.usi capria@comcast.net; doug.fischer@co.anoka.mn.us <br />Subject: re:Medians <br /> <br />Mr. Lyndon Robjent: <br /> <br />We are writing in regards to some changes in the County Road 14 project. The area of concern is the <br />median being projected at the Cottonwood Court intersection and Cty Rd 14 and to 20th Avenue. The <br />way you are planning on placing the median we won't be able to turn left in and out of Cottonwood Ct. <br /> <br />You mentioned we will need to make U-turns at Brian Drive to reach our home if we were coming from <br />1-35E. <br />Do you realize that the U-turns involve busy interesections such as Brian Drive and 20th A venue? There <br />are many cars turning in and out of Brian Drive to their homes and the Eagle Pass development that will <br />make the U-turn very difficult as well as slow traffic on County Road 14. We feel the U-turns will be <br />unsafe as well as will slow traffic on County Road 14. If people need to make a U-turn to reach Corner <br />Express, their homes along 14 or Cottonwood Ct there will be a back-up at the turn by Brian Drive-this <br />will also back-up traffic trying to go west and people will illegally go around the traffic, just like they do <br />now. The median will only allow us to turn right onto Cty Rd 14 and you stated to Gary on Oct. 29, on <br />a phone call, that we are to possibly make a U-turn at the 4-way stop in order to go towards downtown <br />Centerville and where our children's school is; besides their activities that are all to the west of our <br />home. How are we to make a U-turn at the 4-way stop at 20th Ave or Brian Drive with a large suburban <br />or any other SUV or van? Has the road been designed to accomodate these wide turns without <br />interfering with traffic on Brian Drive that is also trying to get access to Cty Rd 14? And potentially <br />dangerous situations at the 4-way stop trying to make a U-turn? <br /> <br />We feel making U-turns is not going to be safer. We don't have a large volume of traffic on our street <br />but we should be able to turn left and right out of our street and anyone living along Cty Rd 14. How <br />many accidents on this stretch of Cty Rd 14 have been reported in the last years to make you feel it <br />would be safer to have a median instead of the current continuous left turn lane? <br /> <br />Gary understood that you thought there will be a stop light at the 20th A venue and Cty Rd 14 <br />intersection and at the October 13, 2004 City of Centerville worksession meeting Jim Dvorak, SRF <br /> <br />1112/2004 <br />