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the police along with vehicle description and peak activity periods, if possible. It is the recommendation of staff that the residents report inappropriate activities to the police and that the police concentrate patrol efforts during problem periods identified by apartment residents. Motion to recommend that the City Council direct the Police Department to work with the senior apartment residents to focus enforcement activities to abate excess noise. Action: Ratify the recommendation of the Public Works Committee. Case #2 Consider Highway 10 Median Closures Background: Staff indicated MnDOT has released plans for the 2005 overlay projects. As a part of this work MnDOT would like to remove several of the more problematic median openings. A review of the following medians that have been proposed for closure along with the number of traffic accidents that have taken place within a three year period between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2002 is as follows: · Tungsten Street - 4 traffic accidents · Feldspar Street - 7 traffic accidents · Llama Street - 2 traffic accidents · Midway between Traprock Street and Armstrong Boulevard - 1 traffic accident · The crossing west of Beatty Street- 0 traffic accidents · The crossing at the west end of the weigh station - 0 traffic accidents MnDOT has requested City support for these median closures and the issue was presented to the Public Works Committee at the June 15, 2004 meeting. The Committee and Council directed that an open house on the proposed median closures be held to solicit public input. An open house was held on Thursday, September 23, 2004 at Fire Station Nol to address this directive. Two representatives from MnDOT were in attendance along with the City Engineer and the Assistant Director of Public Works. Twenty four citizens attended the open house and two have submitted written comments expressing opposition to the closure of two of the six medians, Feldspar Street and the median on the west end of the weigh station. In addition a phone call was received from Mr. Chad Lundquist who recently purchased the property on the southwest comer of Highway 10 and Llama Street. Mr. Lundquist has expressed verbally his opposition to the closing of this median. Of the six medians originally proposed for closure, there are two they have not received any opposition on. Beth Neuendorf of MnDOT was present to address some of the concerns for the median closures that have been proposed.