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MINUTES OF PUBLIC HEARING • AUGUST 15, 1985 PAGE 6 BOBBY BLACKWELL: Could you refer back to that for me personally what section exactly you are talking about? Where we're asking for another 20 ft? EDDIE GRAY: SECTION 3, 5-201 - SEC. 6-501 BOBBY: Let's look at that now. Section 6-501 - EDDIE GRAY: For instance, where they are showing the greenway corridor along the Big Island Slough, and also along the big drainage ditch that runs beside the park at Fairmont Park, if this had been in effect at the time that we did that, we would have to set aside an additional 20' on either side of the drainage area and then the people that back up to that drainage ditch, their lot would stop 20' short of it and they would have a fence, then they would be 20' behind the fence. Either the city would have to maintain it, or I don't think the people living there would maintain a 20' space behind their back fence. As I understand the proposed ordinance in these greenway corridors, the city would be purchasing or either trying to use existing right-of-ways as much as possible. BOBBY: Just trying to use existing right-of-ways, we don't want to purchase anything. EDDIE: O.K. but there are a few places that there aren't existing right-of-ways so they've got some green on the map; but even the 80~ that is alreadyexisting right-of-way so why should people that own property along that existing right-of-way have to get another 20' on either side of it, landscape it and maintain it just to make the greenbelt that much wider. BOBBY: I understand that. ANDY: Any more questions? •