Continuous City Confusion (CCC)

We had a public hearing date scheduled for June 11 and then lost it. The city engineer is still causing problems about what to do with the ditch easements. It seems as if they have never had to deal with these types of issues and it's causing everyone a bit of confusion.

As I've mentioned before, the ditch itself does not appear on our property. Our property is serviced by the New Mercer Ditch, but they are private ditch laterals owned by us. The city wants to be sure that no other property owners are affected by our plat. I guess I can understand why, but it is clear that the engineer has no idea about this stuff.

We thought the city attorney cleared it up, but then the engineer (Susan), brought in some more confusion and is requiring that our attorney write a letter to the city stating that no other properties are affected by our subdivision.

We don't know when the public hearing will be, but we won't make June 11. I sent an e-mail to our attorney so that we can get this issue resolved.

e-Mail to Susan Joy (Engineering) Regarding Sidewalk

Hi Susan,

I plan to pick up the plans for stormwater, engineering, light and power and transportation planning from JR either this afternoon or Monday when they are complete and take to the utilities outside of the city. Can you list for me who I will need to deliver them to?

Also, regarding the sidewalk:

I left you a message yesterday afternoon, wondering if you've had any more luck on this. A few thoughts I'd like to share:

• We'd be happy to complete the sidewalk when the city completes from the Kingdom Hall development east to connect up to the sidewalk at Sage Creek neighborhood. We just don't see the logic to put the sidewalk in for 224' and barricade it at both ends. If the plan is to complete the entire length along Kechter, then that is fine, let's do it at the same time.
  If the plans for the sidewalk are not in place now and we have to put a short length in and barricade at both ends, here are my concerns:
• It will not get used and will sit to weather and deteriorate. It will also likely require changes when the final sidewalk finally does get installed, requiring us to tear out and re-install.
• In addition, I have small children and see it as a potential hazard and danger to them possibly playing on the concrete pad and either running into a barrier or worse, running into traffic.
• The 2 barriers on both sides will be an eyesore and a potential traffic hazard as people drive by and wonder what is going on.

I hope this is enough to convince Transportation Planning to postpone the sidewalk until such time the sidewalk is completed the entire length of Kechter Road.