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- e - a viable alternative. He emphasized the point that the rating on Alterna- tive No.2 for the Downtown Westside Alternative was established as a minor negative social impact. He felt it to be a very major impact. Also, he spoke regarding saving the WOW Hall, noting it would be necessary to move it if the east/west corridor were built. He felt Council should make some positive, definitive statement in the plan to guarantee saving the WOW Hall or it would lead to its closure. He said the west side corridor may never be constructed, another reason to save the Hall. He noted there was a very viable effective program in the WOW Hall that is very important to the downtown community and to the neighborhood communities. All 35 arts organizations have passed a resolu- tion asking for saving of the WOW Hall as the facilities are going to be needed in the future for budding young artists. He noted there was a very expensive dance floor, that it is an important historic landmark in the area, and it is felt that this valuable building needs to be preserved by a definitive statement in the plan. Roy Nelson, 1125 Lorane Highway, represented Mrs. Ann Ramp, Crest Drive Neighbor- hood Association. He requested Council consider deleting Lorane Highway as an arterial from Washington to Chambers Street, as the Crest Drive Association and all 87 property owners between Washington and Chambers are opposed to money spent for this project. He noted in 1968 the Lorane Highway was projected as a future arterial followed by significant things happening since that time. He said arterial streets had been created using ex-County streets, i.e., Chambers and West 28th. The result of that had been to reduce the traffic on Lorane Highway about 50 percent from what it was in 1968. He said the Lorane Highway area had been saturated with building and felt there would not be any more increased housing density. So he asked what was the reason for making Lorane Highway between Washington and Chambers into a fully declared arterial. He said the Lorane Highway is no longer an arterial or a designated traffic route, but simply a fully developed residential street. He felt there was no reason to make the property owners pay to make it into an arterial. Richard Hansen, 2744 Tomahawk Lane, expressed his major concern regarding past history indicating that when something is put into print it is hard to get that changed. He felt that Council should be very careful to review the plan before its adoption. He said the expectation of a 15 percent pUblic- transportation level was foolhardy, noting the community is not developed in any central area. Rather, it is spread out which will compound the problem of trying to get people to use mass transit. He cautioned Council in its haste to adopt the plan by July 1, and asked that they review the plan very carefully before adopting. He urged Council to look carefully at the goal of 15 percent for mass transit, and, if that is unobtainable, then re-evaluate whether it is really an obtainable goal. If the plaa, is adopted, he felt the~e would be problems re: Goodpasture Island area. It has been designated as a multiple-residential use area, and there would be a very high-density residential use of the area creating traffic problems. He noted that it already has an access problem, and suggested the need for some access to the River Road Belt Line area, such as a bridge between Valley River Center and K-Mart, tying into the River Road area. Richard Roels, 833 Lawrence, No.3, expressed concern regarding the Lincoln- Charnel ton couplet on the west side. He felt it not desirable to have major arterial traffic between the residential neighborhoods. He said when the 4/17/78--3 z"