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The Chairman noted that he looked at the routes proposed on <br />53rd Street and 41st St., and they seemed reasonable, but when he <br />gets to 16th Street, he has numerous questions. First of all, <br />16th Street has an alignment problem at King's Highway where it <br />narrows at the bridge; then Ajogs and goes over to the Junior <br />College. It is unpaved for part of the following segment; then <br />narrows again at the next relief canal where it proceeds on <br />behind Lake in the Woods and Buddy Tipton's church and then ends <br />at 74th Avenue, and he did not believe we even have R/W from that <br />point on. The Chairman understood the principle of not wanting a <br />bike path on a major road, but noted that realistically we have a <br />hard time coming up with the money for a bike path in the first <br />place, and he is concerned about "pie in the sky." It is all <br />groves out there; the development is not occurring; and he has <br />some real concern about putting 16th Street on this Plan. Route <br />60 is a very active area with the potential of a regional mall, <br />and he wished to know what is wrong with Route 60, which is a <br />gateway to our county. <br />Director Keating felt those are good points, and believed <br />another thing the Chairman brought up is the fact that we shortly <br />will have the application for the mall's D.R.I. and whether or <br />not that is approved is something that wasn't even under consid- <br />eration when all the information was collected. He thought the <br />decision the committee made on staff's recommendation not to have <br />the bike path on Route 60 particularly east of King's Highway was <br />a good one because of the various constraints. He suggested that <br />what the Board may want to do is jog it up to 60 either at 43rd <br />Avenue, or because Route 60 still has constraints during that <br />segment, have it proceed on 16th to King's Highway and then jog <br />over to Route 60 at that point. <br />Commissioner Bird agreed that King's Highway makes sense. <br />He realized we do have some restrictions on 16th between 43rd <br />Avenue and King's Highway, but felt that the 43rd Avenue and <br />Route 60 intersection is much too congested already. Then, if we <br />27 <br />NOV 15 1988 <br />POOK 75 NE171 <br />