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* ' , <br /> �. � � CITY OF ORONO <br /> � Regular P�eeting of the Orono Council, 7:02 P.M. <br /> ilovember 8, 19 7 6 <br /> �'he Orono Council r.let on the above date with <br /> � the following members present> Acting P4ayor <br /> ' I-lassengale, Councilmembers Butler and Paurus. <br /> t�bsent: Ilayor Searles and Councilmember �lelsh. <br /> � Also presente City Administrator Benson, <br /> Building & Zoning Administrator P�Zuhich, City <br /> � Attorney Malkerson, and City Engineer Franke <br /> � <br /> Butler moved, Paurus seconded, that the Minutes MINUTES <br /> � of the Regular 1�Teeting of October 12, 1976, be <br /> ` approvede P4otion, Ayes (3) - Nays (0) , <br /> � Jane Olson, Bike/Hike Committee member stated <br /> � that at the Bike/Hike Trails Committee�meeting BIKE/HIKE TRAIL COI����TTS <br /> of Idovember 4, 1976, a motion was passed to <br /> • recommend to the Orono City Council that they <br /> request Hennepin County to make the widened <br /> � shoulders on County Road �15 and County Road #6 <br /> � as bike routes, and that all future improved <br /> shoulders that will be designated bike routes be <br /> � marked in the same manner. Approved unanimouslym <br /> r �Tane Olson, also stated tliat the Orono Bike/Hike <br /> rails Committee recommend to the Joint Trails <br /> • �:ornmittee that their members ask their Councils <br /> • to request immediate action on County Road ##15 <br /> in marking the improved shoulders as a bike <br /> � route, and that they consider requesting the <br /> County to so mark any future improved shoulders. <br /> � A�proved unanimously. <br /> � Ii�nnepin County brought out a reclarification <br /> of the County's policy of not glyphing County <br /> • road shoulders used as trails< Gerhardson <br /> stated that the County feeling is that if a <br /> � glyph ("Bike Trail") is on the widened shoulder, <br /> � it can then be used for nothing else, and Class III <br /> trails are shared with motor vehicles. The <br /> � County will post signs designating a bike trail <br /> if the trail is a linlc in a trail system--if the <br /> � trails "goes someplace". There was agreement that <br /> Hennepin County is not putting in bike trails--they <br /> � are blacktopping shouiderse <br /> � Hallowell st�ted that in her daily observation of <br /> � County Road #15, the widened shoulders intended <br /> for use as a bike trail between Vavarre and T7ound <br /> � are in many cases being used by traffic as an <br /> �ditional lane for turnxng, passing, parking. (Continued) <br /> � <br /> � <br /> � <br /> � <br />