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specific areas of the neighborhood and asked to provide their ideas on future improvements to roadways (regardless of classification). Between the two formal meetings Rick Satre and Gary McNeel met with a smaller group of neighbors (the "Save our Streets" committee) at a private residence the evening of August 18, 2004 to have a more focused dialogue and gain a greater understanding of the neighbors specific concerns with the City's classification effort. The group was very candid with their concerns and asked Rick and Gary if they could be convinced that the City was taking the wrong approach and requested a meeting with a small traffic subcommittee and a potential walkabout with neighbors on the streets in question. Those commitments were made and led to a meeting to review and accept the neighbor's origin and destination traffic study August 24, 2004 and the subsequent walkabout the same afternoon for a first-hand look at conditions. Results The interaction of staff with interested parties has proven helpful and provided additional clarity on the issues and the perceptions of the neighborhood. However, the data provided by the neighborhood has served to substantiate the staff and Planning Commission recommendations, rather than compelling staff to change the direction of the street classification effort. The neighborhood produced an excellent origin/destination study and performed short-term (less than 24 hour) traffic counts at selected locations throughout the study area that confirms the segments of roadway in question are indeed functioning as neighborhood collectors. The methodology, data collection, analysis, virtually everything but the summary and concluSions and comparative travel times, result in a very concise and credible document. Many comments were received from the August 10, 2004 flip charts and comment cards, subsequent emails and letters sent by interested parties. The input was sorted thematically by concern, resulting in a sorted list of concerns regarding classification, maintenance/improvement, safety, cost/who pays, and others as our theme. Staff prepared responses to each theme, providing copies prior to the September 29th meeting to everyone who had signed up at the August meeting.