Yes, sir.

Sure.

Good evening.

Uh Chris Healy, Spear Crane Corp.

208 Wilmot Drive Walkershaw.

Um just meant.

Sure.

H E A L Y first name Chris.

Um speaking on behalf of item D, which is uh no parking along a select area of Wilmont Drive all the way from four hundred Wilmont through two hundred four Wilmot.

Um we currently produce a product that is a hundred and fifty feet long.

Uh we just received approval last week to add a building at four hundred Wilmot that will allow a product that is two hundred feet long.

Um there's currently a section directly across from our main building and a little bit on the south side of the road where there is public parking that's out there and it makes it quite difficult to get product in and out of there safely and efficiently.

So just looking for approval to make sure that uh we have no parking on that side of the road because it is an everyday occurrence of cars parked on that road.

So well, just looking for approval on that.

Yes, sir.

Sure.

So we manufacture overhead cranes uh for inside steel facilities and anything throughout the entire United States.

The hundred and fifty and the two hundred feet is the length of the product that we have to get out of our facility.

So by the time we start getting to the road, we need all of that width of that road to make the turn to safely get it out of there.

And uh the with while Quick Trip is nice and it took over for PDQ, it has created a lot of traffic on Wilmot Drive.

So again, we want to get that product out quick and safe, and again, if we have to move cars and stop and try to back up, again, it it makes it quite hard.

The two hundred foot is like I said, the length of the new building, so it's gonna make that even harder.

We've made the doors wider in the new building to try to again alleviate that some as well, but one car there, which there's cars parked there every single day again, just becomes a nuisance.

I think you're you're creating things that are even longer.

That is correct.

Okay, thank you.

Oh, there's never mind we're out of order.

Go back to four Aproval of January.

Yes, it is.

This is something that was anything.

Correct.

Rick.

ID circulation.

Yeah.

Um yes and no, I think this one, it just how the dates kinda fell in the in B and G is only once a month.

And if it just came in right after or right after the previous council when we start putting the the agenda items together, just kind of how it all fell.

Yeah.

All right.

So this item was uh excuse me as I was transitioning here.

Um brought forward by Alderman Van Triste to evaluate and look at possibly the installation of street lighting along Marshview Street, which kind of transitions its name to metal lane here from Silver Nail Road all the way to Grandview Boulevard.

I know this is an item of topic that has come up in the past, and there has been previous discussions and and topics on it, and engineering previously was not in support of installing uh street lighting along this stretch of roadway and in further discussions with engineering uh engineering is still not in support of installing street lighting along this stretch of corridor because of the various businesses that are along this stretch with the backlighting from all the lights that are from the adjacent businesses and the uh lighting from the apartment complexes and for the other piece where this road itself is not necessary necessarily like an arterial street that we would normally light on a regular basis.

Correct.

There would have to be a new service that would be brought in, and the there wasn't an estimate that we had put together if we were to install lighting along this stretch, and it was estimated that it would cost about a hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars in order to light this stretch of roadway.

Well, thanks for letting me speak on this.

I travel through there quite a bit.

Roughly a hundred and ten more residents that are gonna live there between the two uh apartment buildings that are going to be built.

And uh my subdivision as well as the old subdivision going up Pebble Valley Road along with Patricia Lane and and uh that uh we're talking about eleven hundred and fifty residents roughly uh that probably frequent that quite a bit.

And if you if you do the math on it, it it uh doesn't make sense right now, but uh like Erica was saying uh that road is is pretty doggone smooth.

It's one of the smoothest roads in Waukeshaw.

So I doubt that it's gonna see any activity ripping up the road and and even chip seal uh it and uh in the next 20 some years.

Uh there's assisted living that's that's uh on that stretch of road there uh right behind CVS is the forty-two unit apartment building, and then um where the farm uh bureau building is between the senior living that used to be uh years ago it used to be a dog uh kennel area back in there.

They're gonna rip that down and put a 76 unit um building in there, and they're gonna have indoor parking for that one.

We've discussed that at Comma Council.

But uh for the money, I I get it, we don't have the money, but uh it's a it's a real safety issue more than anything else.

I mean, you you walk down there to go over to get uh some custard or or go over uh uh to do business in there.

Uh there's a whole lot more more lighting that's in the parking lots of these businesses that uh were right now uh uh taking the the lighting from the back of their businesses, but on the front end of their businesses in the parking lot, there's a whole lot more lighting.

So I I'm in favor of it, obviously, because of uh my constituency and and uh I I've been long before I became alderman.

I've I've had this issue uh in front of uh public works for quite a while now.

So I thank you for letting me talk.

Yes, I did.