He stated he spent some time on the HDC and had a fair understanding of the |
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Secretary of the Interior's Standards. As a former member, his first consideration |
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would be the size and scale. He heard it was a non-contributing structure and in the |
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historic vernacular that was correct. However, there was not a single resident that felt |
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the bridge was not a contributing structure. He stated Mayor Barnett recently |
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sponsored a visioning session that Dr. Stamps referred to. There was more input than |
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he had anticipated, and the bridge was the single most talked about physical asset in |
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the Village. Everyone considered the bridge the gateway to the Village. Everyone |
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wanted to keep it narrow because it was a natural traffic calming device. If the |
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shoulders are opened up and the lane width increased it would encourage traffic to |
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Gail Berry-Tripp, 960 E. Tienken, stated the study the Commission discussed |
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about the negative impacts was the Section 106 Study. Since the bridge was on the |
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critical bridge list, she could not believe that Federal Funds were not funding the State |
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to fix those bridges. The Friends of Tienken would continue to pursue that. She did |
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not think the Road Commission engineers got the context sensitive design. The bridge |
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was a part of a community and the engineers had to get outside of the box and work |
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towards trying to come to a solution. She said it was technically correct that the |
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bridge was not a contributing structure, but it would affect many contributing |
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structures, her house (At the Sign of the Black and White Cow) was one. She |
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suggested a drive through the area looking at her house, the cracks in the stone fence. |
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She did not believe trucks carrying heavier loads would not do more damage. Her |
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house was about 16-1/2 feet from the road, and had no stone windows because they |
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were blown out by rocks thrown up. She felt the weight limits needed to be minimized |
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or it would destroy the structures within that Community. She suggested looking at |
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the King's Cove Bridge which was a three-lane bridge with a five-lane alternative. |
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She did not think shoulders were necessary on the proposed bridge because it was a |
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very short span of a bridge. She hoped the Commissioners had received a copy of |
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the letter from the Michigan Environmental Legal Group about certain factors that had |
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to be taken into consideration and the data that is being used about the traffic because |
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what was being used was not current. She stated things had changed in 2009 versus |
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the 2000 SEMCOG study and the 2007 update. |
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