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MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Commissioner Bowman, that the Board authorize staff to go ahead with the opening of 20th Avenue but only after the necessary safety improvements are made to 20th Avenue, i.e. the one -lane road, the signalization between 8th Street and 12th Street, and the bike path/sidewalk that is in the budget. Under discussion, Commissioner Bowman suggested that the Motion include direction to staff to proceed with the construction of 27th Street SW as fast as possible, but Commissioner Scurlock felt that was handled in last week's meeting. Commissioner Bird suggested that if the stormwater permit is not received shortly, we should proceed without it and let the Water District rattle their swords all they want to, but just tell them we have an emergency situation here and we are going to build the road and take the permit when it gets here. He felt, however, that we have a good relationship with the Water District and will be receiving the permit shortly. Commissioner Eggert asked about 12th Avenue, and Director Davis explained that 12th Avenue is a local road within the Highlands, and the right-of-way does not go through to Oslo Road. Commissioner Eggert felt strongly that even with these three accesses, we need more access to the Highlands. She stated that she will forever consider the accesses of 20th Avenue and 17th Street SW as one access rather than two because of the bottleneck at that intersection. Director Davis believed 6th Avenue SW is on our Thoroughfare Plan to connect to Oslo Road, which would certainly funnel much of the traffic to the new commercial node at Oslo Road and U.S. #1. However, we have no right-of-way for a section of that road. Chairman Wheeler asked how many months and years we were talking about in making the improvements to 20th Avenue as stated 33 JUN 1989 BOOK � � F 9 /