| Morris said that their property abutted up to what once was a dead end, |
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| which was now no longer a dead end. She had voiced her concerns over |
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| the project in the past to the developers, to City Council, to the Planning |
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| Commission and to the Engineering Department. Her main concern, now |
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| that she had re-voiced it again in November and she had not received a |
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| response about it, was about the gabion wall that was constructed. She |
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| was not sure if anyone had gone to look at the detention basin. She |
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| stated that it was hard enough for them to wrap their heads around what |
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| was going in right next to their homes with a constant two feet of standing |
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| water at all times. All of a sudden in November, the wall appeared, which |
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| was basically made of big hunks of concrete enmeshed in a wire that |
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| looked like chickenwire. She said that it was an eyesore, to say the least. |
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| She talked with Tracey in Engineering (Balint), who told her that there |
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| were no other gabion wall detention basins in the City of Rochester Hills. |
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| Ms. Morris indicated that there was a guinea pig going in at the end of |
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| their street. Safety was a huge issue with the wall, especially with the |
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| constant standing water. She did not see what would stop kids from |
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| walking on the wall and falling in. She said that nothing had been |
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| addressed as far as safety, and that it was not just the wall. She |
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| recommended that everyone go and look at the wall. While it might look |
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| good on paper, and she knew that all the sediment was supposed to be |
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| stopped within the concrete in the wall, she stressed that people needed |
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| to see what it looked like. On four sides of the basin, there were huge |
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| piles of concrete, as well as the wall; and there was a big drain on one |
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| side, which she did not believe was fastened down properly. She stated |
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| that it should be in an industrial area, and that, in a nutshell, it should |
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| never have gone into a residential area, and it was a major concern. She |
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| said that she would highly recommend that they reviewed it before they |
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| approved the Final Plat. |
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| Mr. Sera explained that they purchased the property with the plans and |
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| the engineering drawings approved and in place. They did not have any |
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| hands on with the actual design of the project prior to purchasing it. It was |
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| all pre-approved. Everything they had built was done exactly according |
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| the City specs and the blueprints. The materials they used were |
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| approved by the City Inspector, Fred Dick, and the Engineering office. As |
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| far as the grate not being fastened down, their contractor was just going |
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