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rO 80 Chair Ficek asked if the trail has to stay on the south side or could it be flipped. 81 82 Mr. Freihammer indicated the trail does not need to stay on the south side. The 83 general feedback staff heard is that people want it to remain on the south side and 84 is why it was left there. Granted, everyone has to cross to get to the south side and 85 traffic is not terrible but one thing staff has heard from residents is that the trail does 86 not have to cross everyone's driveway so there are not the driveway impacts or the 87 safety factors like someone backing into a pedestrian. He indicated the trail will be 88 transitioned to the north side. He showed the Commission a layout of the proposed 89 location. 90 91 Chair Ficek asked for the drainage needs, there would not be a need for a pond. 92 93 Mr. Freihammer thought this will trigger some Rice Creek Watershed rules. It is a 94 little bit questionable because staff has not fully vetted it. Depending on what is 95 done, a reclaim might not actually trigger their rules which is another benefit of 96 going with a reclaim. There are also exceptions for the trails since the City is 97 actually separating the pathway, that is usually exempt from the watershed's 98 calculations and will not trigger it. Staff is not one hundred percent sure but it still 99 may trigger that. If the City needs to do something it might potentially go 100 underground or do rain gardens. There is not a large City parcel and another thing 101 is it is a very linear corridor so the City might need lots of little things versus one 102 big thing. 103 104 Chair Ficek asked if the rural area would help that if there was not a curb on one 105 side. 106 107 Mr. Freihammer indicated that could potentially help and if the City were to do 108 something it may be something more minor. hi general, staff does believe all the 109 options have less impervious than existing so that is already a positive gain unless 110 the City ends up adding a bunch of parking bays. 111 112 Chair Ficek indicated he had some questions that might add to the project costs. He 113 asked when looking at speeds if staff has considered horizontal curves to move the 114 sight lines instead of looking straight down the road. 115 116 Mr. Freihammer explained staff has not looked at that specifically yet. He indicated 117 he has met with a resident but they have not looked at it from a vertical perspective 118 but he did drive slowly through the corridor and there are some spots adjacent to 119 the golf course where it is really hard to see right now but the roadway really falls 120 off so the pathway has been pushed out a little bit and it may be beneficial to put in 121 a slight horizontal curve to get it away from the golf course and away from the steep 122 topography. If something is done it would be very slight. 123 Page 3 of 7