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e Mr. Haws moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel to deny the appeal of the merchant police license and uphold the Police Department recommendation. Councilman Bradley wondered if the applicant, Mr. Ackley, could indicate his reasons why the information was not submitted. Mr. Ackley replied at the time he applied, he did not have sufficient time to fill out the application the night he was hired. He indicated he had no intention to leave out the information, but by the time he returned back to complete the information on the application, his employer had already sent it on to the Police Department. Councilman Haws indicated that since the applicant could re-apply at a later date, he felt it best at this time for the public safety for that reconsideration be done at a later time. Vote was taken on the motion which carried, with all Council members present voting aye and Mr. Bradley voting no. I-A-4 E. No Through Trucks--Royal-Elmira-Roosevelt. Manager indicated that at a November 3, 1976 Committee-of-the-Whole meeting the City Council had called a public hearing for November 22 on the proposed limitation of trucks through the Royal-Elmira-Roosevelt area. He indicated this was a very difficult problem and at the November 22 public hearing there were not specific enough proposals, so the Public Works Department was asked for time to come up with more specific proposals. He indicated although staff was tardy in distributing the proposal, the Council should have before them copies from the Public Works Traffic Division with three alternatives for Council consideration. e Darrell Wilburn, Traffic Division, indicated this problem had gone back to mid-1973, when the Public Works Department had received requests from citizens in the area regarding the truck traffic, and their inquiry into the problem indicated the truck traffic amounted to only ten per cent, which was about normal then. However, by 1975, there had been a considerable increase in truck traffic and the Active Bethel Citizens group had again requested the City to look at the problem. Mr. Wilburn said several solutions had been looked at, including closing all motor truck traffic. The Police Department brought to the Public Works atten- tion that this restriction would be unreasonable and extremely difficult to enforce from a public relations standpoint. He indicated another solution considered was prohibition by weight, but this would not be practical, because in order for the posted weight to be effective it would have to be unrealistically low and would cause a large number of legiti- mate vehicles to be in violation and subject to a citation, i.e., those serving the residential area in one way or another. Another considera- tion was prohibition of logging trucks but that was felt not to be - 1/24/77 - 5 ~I