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74 May 5th. Ms. Fortune said the League's focus award this year goes to the Westhaven Nursing Clinic. Ms. Pam Fisher, 1518 Trallridge Road, thanked the City for working with residents regarding the Neighborhood Plans. She said that community input needs to continue and requested that no additional access be allowed into Johnson Village. Ms. Fisher said she supports the latest revision in the Neighborhood Plan with one exception, and requested that "avoiding through traffic" be substituted for "minimize through traffic." Ms. Fisher presented a petition signed by Johnson Village residents opposing through traffic. Mr. 1Vdchael Weber, 1855 Westview Road, encouraged Council to attend the April 20th meeting on the Landfill, and said he feels that if Council looks directly at the information they will come to a different conclusion. Ms. Kay Slaughter, 1501 Short 18th Street, said she thinks it is worthwhile to look at Mr. Weber's consultant's report and to explore remediation of wells. Ms. Slaughter expressed appreciation for Council's support of the Lewis and Clark Festival and said that the part-time position has been advertised and a website has been developed. PRESENTATION: SOUTHERN EN-VIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER PROPOSAL - ROUTE 29/HYDRAULIC ROAD INTERCHANGE Mr. Bruce Appleyard, Transportation Analyst with the Southern Environmental Law Center, presented a study completed on the Hydraulic Road/Route 29 North intersection. The study recomanends that there be a grade separated intersection, that Hillsdale Drive be extended to Hydraulic Road, and that smart growth development be fostered. Mr. Appleyard said he feels the study is a good starting point. Mr. Caravati said he finds it curious that the intersection with Route 29 and the 250 Bypass was not studied and instead the focus was on Hillsdale Drive, and Mr. Appleyard Said the study was fairly limited, but he thinks that area needs to be looked at. Mr. Lynch said when the MPO saw the stud),, the VDOT representatives were skeptical and wanted the numbers used, and asked if the numbers are available. Mr. Appleyard said that the study relied on VDOT's analyses from 1993 and 1998. Mr. Appleyard said that even with the proposed Sperry development the consultant feels this is the best proposal. Mr. Cox said that the recommendation facilitates north/south traffic, and asked where it is facilitating it to. Mr. Cox said if it is facilitating traffic to the University, the University does not want access from that point. Mr. Cox said it appears that the recommendation would create a bottleneck at the 250 Bypass intersection. Mr. Appleyard said we need to think about which roads are appropriate to funnel traffic onto, and he feels Route 29 is appropriate for traffic. Mr. Cox said that Torti Gallas, the consultant who completed the Corridor Study, recommended that to foster smart growth develop traffic needs to be slowed and there needs to be urban scale development, Mr. Cox asked what the height of the proposed bridge will be. Mr. Cox asked if any models were developed for urban scale development facing on the side frontage road. Mr. Appleyard said the walls will be 20 feet high, and said he would leave it up to the city and landowners to development models. Ms. Richards said that the reason the separated interchange was previously rejected was because of the impact on businesses on Hydraulic and Route 29, though the new design seems to help. Ms. Richards said she would like to have an overlay of the previous VDOT proposal and the new design as she is having a hard time seeing the