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MR. BELL: There was a bill in the legislature once to give Rooeville deoignated truck routes but it didn't pass. The City of Roseville does not have power to designate truck routes on county roads. The legislature could pass a bill saying that truck routes could be designated by the city - to give us a right to designate truck traffic on county roads. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: I don't think that would be an unrea- sonable request - considering we have such a large percentage, providing that the Council isn't arbitrary about setting the routes. MR. JOHN NELSON, 3096 Cleveland: Is there a method by which this group of people on Cleveland can stop this from being 52 feet wide. MAYOR DEMOS: I don't think the county would build it other than 52 feet wide, but we would accept it with there being bicycle lanes on the outside which would thereby reduce the travel width. That would be one way to do it. MR. NELSON: As we stand here tonight I'm sure it's going to be passed and it's surprising because I'm sure in the paper it will say the Council met with the people in the area and agreed to do this and that and I was wondering how is it that the people in the area don't have anything to say. The only thing I have against it is the trucks that will come through there more than they do now. MAYOR DEMOS: I don't think I would be for it if it were a four lane highway but I can see a lot of advantages to having a bicycle lane, particularly north of C-2 to liD" - if not the whole way. People are riding bicycles along Fairview and I can't see why they wouldn't do it on Cleveland. MR. NELSON: I'm wondering why we call a meeting for the people in the area and yet it doesn't seem they're going to change it anyway. MAYOR DEMOS: I wouldn't say that at all. You'r. saying it right now. MR. NELSON: But before we didn't have any say on the storm l4