Aspen Ridge/Hill Place project to be discussed soon after 6 p.m. at today's council meeting

What we want to see:
Build a trail from 12th street and along Brooks Avenue to the site on part of the dredged-out right of way and fill the remainder with native absorbent soil to be restored by nature to its previous state as wetland prairie. The trail will provide a route north and south for bird-watchers and native-plant enthusiasts as well as students going to the junior high, high school and UA plus many who work on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard or to the north.
There will be no legal requirement or justification or excuse for creating a street from Hill Place to 12th Street if a traffic bridge is allowed where the walking bridge currently spans the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River between the east and west portions of the Hill Place student apartment complex.

Get a clear explanation of how a limited but relatively consistent movement of water from west to east under the trail across the Brooks right of way would be provided.

Get a clear explanation of how a very limited from from Rochier Hill (the proposed Summit project) across the railroad to the northwest would be provided with no risk of that amount rising to a level that would either erode the natural flow across World Peace Wetland Prairie and simultaneously stop the movement of silt-laden water to WPWP.

Allow ONLY the flow from directly west and southwest from the Pinnacle Foods Plant to enter the incomplete storm drain leading down the Soup Branch to South Duncan Avenue. The nasty, silt-laden water from the huge mound of non-local dirt piled at the SW corner of Aspen Ridge/Hill Place now flows uncontrolled under Duncan Avenue and through the yard and very near the house of Stanley Sullins and his family.

Require all contractors to cover dump trucks going and coming. The massive pile of dirt at the SW corner will be moving and that is many loads.
Require truckers to obey speed limits and stop signs, even the one that has been lying in our yard for three years since they tore out the street between my house and hoodenyple's!

Redraw the curb connection in front of our house so that we will continue to be able to back out of the driveway somewhat safely.

PROTECT the riparian corridor as is. Listening to the replay on TV the final time last Thursday's ward and neighborhood meeting ran on City 16, I heard Todd say that they would remove shoreline understory vegetation "so that people could enjoy the creek." That would, of course, heat up the water so the fish can't enjoy it! And it would go against the resolution passed a few months ago by this council to protect our riparian zones.

Between the removal of riparian vegetation upstream on the UA campus, several construction projects there and the current condition of Hill Place as it was abandoned by Aspen Ridge, the water quality as decreased exponentially. It is shallower when there is no rain and deeper and a greater flood risk when rain is falling.

Grade down the land north of the Moody property along South Hill to the same as the Moody property and eliminate the unjust, uncomfortable situation now facing the Moody family.

Finally, the land south of the walking bridge on the east side of the Town Branch should have all infrastructure and fill dirt removed and be restored as a natural storm-water retention garden for the eastern portion of the complex.

That would be the only change that could provide anything approaching the level of stormwater protection that land provided in the past.