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CASE # \ '-i REPORT FROM PUBLIC WORKS By: Public Works Staff 'Background: The Public Works Committee met on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 and discussed the following five cases: CITIZEN INPUT There was none. APPROVE AGENDA Motion to approve the agenda as submitted. Case #1: Consider Request to Provide Birch Hill Lodges with Screening from TH 47 Background: At the request of a resident staff met at the townhome development in the area of Sunwood Drive and Cobalt Street to discuss the traffic impact from TH47 and is requesting some sort of sound mitigation and reduction in light impacts from northbound vehicles. It was the consensus of the Committee discussion that the expenditure of public funds on private property would not be a wise precedent. In addition a request of this nature should more appropriately come from the Homeowner's Association which owns the property which would be involved and not from an individual resident. Motion to recommend that the City Council deny the request to provide Birch Hill Lodges with screening from TH 47. Action: Ratify the recommendation of the Public Works Committee. Case #2 Consider Drainage Resolutions for Gorham's Sandy Acres A resident at 15130 Waco Street NW contacted the engineering department last summer requesting assistance with localized flooding on his property; at times affecting his existing garage. The property owner's garage was constructed in a location that altered the existing drainage patterns of the area and damns the water at a low point located in his back yard. Runoff is not able to find an overland path and flow through to Xkimo Street. Even if water were able to flow to Xkimo Street, as. previously existed, there is a low point in the road surface along that roadway that would push the runoff problem onto another resident