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They'll cut down a tree in a matter of minutes. I resent the urgency brought forward six years in the making. So please turn it down or please table it and get more information. Thank you. Ed Talley: Ed Talley, 1081 Riverside. I think it was early 90s, wasn't it '93, '94 when the 96' inch brick sewer had a collapse and I'm remembering that as living in neighborhood going down Riverside Drive one day. We lost around 20 -25 trees, Spirea bushes, etc. when that project was done and none of it was ever replaced, but that was a time when the Commission was looking more at houses than it was at the entire landmass when districts were formed. We've got a couple of things on the table here that all relate to this issue: Number 1 as Mr. Crumlish has pointed out. You have - a condition that is labeled today as an emergency and that label has been on that project or planned project since the year 2000. The other topic on this is you're wanting to cut a pathway that was in the Legals of the Tribune as a temporary pa which when I spoke to Jas on the telephone, who was m ost cooperative in discussions on this; he the engineering firm, said it was going to be an 8 -foot wide temporary path and then I believe last week, the past is now 12' wide and it is permanent. Jason asked if they wished to have it shielded at the top of the riverbank with trees or bushes and I think that is the last thing one would want to shield an access point up and down. We live in an urban area and we have kids that play and vandals and things like that. We have been plagued repeatedly in the neighborhood by the fishermen. As a past board member of the NNN, we vehemently fought to have the no riverbank fishing established. Now as time has past, it's all right to transverse the riverbank as long as you're standing in the water to fish. Every time there is any indication, it appears, by a fisherman wanting to enter the river, they do that including going across private property. Another issue we have here is that unfortunately with Leeper Park, your previous C of A, that park was landscaped with two gradual slopes on the face as is referenced to the terracing in the City annual reports from 1912, 1917, and 1918. And I would think that one would restore or rehab the park if there needed to be an access ramp down. But I do firmly believe that we need to backup, take a time out, put this in Committee, take a real good look at this because the neighbors are right. For the better part of the summer, you can walk upon this sand gravel shoal almost two thirds of the way across the river. It is very wide and it seems as a non - engineer to be most acceptable to be as working platform for heavy equipment being brought in by barge or for a distance approximately twenty to thirty feet over the deep current on the north shore side. We don't need to clear cut the riverbank. Thank you. Lynn Patrick: The Chair is now going to close the public hearing. I'd like to now recognize any Commissions for discussion or comments. Timothy Klusczinski: I'm under the impression right now that in 2000 the Army Corp of Engineers evaluated the project, but now, today, in 2006 the project has taken on different composure being specifically that this is being rolled into an additional sewer -odor control problem issue, mandating that the chamber be installed when that may not have been the issue in 2000. Can someone answer that? Jason Durr: The distinction that I want to point out now is that the riverbank was the issue with the Army Corps. Our main issue is not only the riverbank but it is also the structural integrity of the pipe and the new chamber that needs to be installed. So there's not just the riverbank that needs to be stabilized. We need to fix that pipe also. Joann Sporleder: You might refer to what Brendan was saying. I understand that that the original 2000 thing was because of the sewer. It wasn't to stabilize the bank at all. It was a sewer related issue. Timothy Klusczinski: In 2000? Joann Sporleder: In 2000, that was a sewer related issue. March 20, 2006 HPC Minutes_Monthly .doc [Preliminary] Page 11