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The next speaker was Ms. Blatchley~ who lives near the middle of Ayers Road. Ms. Blatchley indicate that her one concen~ was that her son, who is a long haul trucker, has great difficulty in parking his track on the Blatchley property when he returns home. The ~esign of the ~raf~c mec[ians is such that one of th~n~ is Placed so that, in order to back the truck onto the Blatchley property, the truck must back across the median. Ms~ BlatChley complained that this desig~ had been contrary to an earlier promise made to her concerning the ease of backing a tr~ck onto her proper~. Ms. Blatchiey requested that the media~ at that location be ;ither removed, or that ~ median be m0~lifi~d to give it a sloping margin that a truck could more easily back across it. Mr. Genovese acknowledged the concerns that Ms. Blatchley was expressing. He promised that the City would W°r~k with her~ but he could not promise a resolution favor~ab??. ~her concerns b~ecause of other ~ssues~ such as city stmndards. Ms. Blatchley asserted1 ~taa~ her concerns at, out truck access to her property had been brought up at several prior meetings~ and that she had received assurances that the design would acco~odate the particular needs of her property. She felt that the City ~ad not followed ~2zrough on these assurances. The next speaker was Jim Edgar of 55 Ayers Road. Mr. Edgar began by asserting that the whole, project was a fhilure. He felt that the design of the road was poor~ and that the contractor ~ W;rk in construction was poor~ Mr. Ed~tr indicated that he felt ~he b~ke path does not meet the code requirements because it ~s too narrow and has manhole covers. Mr~ Edgar~ repeating Ms~ Jeffr~es' complaints~ wondered how the c~ty could assess ~br substandard work such as he felt Ayers Road represented. Mr~ Edgar went on to complain that the bike path puts water onto the driving surface of the road, because of poor drainage~ where the water collects, l~Lr. Edgar felt that ~s problem was enhance~ by the fact ~hat the road was built below the ground level. Mr~ Edgar also expressed concerns about the bike path. He felt that it wa~s not safe, in that cars and trackS will driVe on the bike path to avoid some of the curves in the Road, and that the tendency of the water to stand on the road will cause vehicles to splash biEe riders. Mr. Edgar also expressed his dissatisfaction with the traffic calming devices in the road because tl~ey will rec]uce the response time of safety vehicles. Mr. Edgar then read a letter from another resident of the area~ Jim Holm, Mr. Edgar expressed. Mr. Edgar then turned to a he had done among residents of the Ayers Road area. Mr. several survey responses. After Mr. Edgar had read one set ~ survey in its he wishedthem to be a part of the record. Mr. Edgar process~ as it was being Mr. Edgar noted that he had been the proposed assessment process since the Ayers Road project was first public con:anent.