evidence that the traffic issues on Hilyard at 32nd has been <br />an issue in the past and still is. Nothing really new. <br />Quick point, I see people driving through the alley and <br />coming out through the private parking lot by The Pad and <br />Mazzi's on to East Amazon. The Transportation Department <br />does not want to mention this because it is illegal. <br />A quick point regarding safety. During the winter months <br />the height of the building creates solar shading on the park <br />sidewalk and the east end of 31St Street. This does not allow <br />the sun to melt frost in the shaded area until later in the <br />morning. Bicycle riders on the paths and pedestrians using <br />the sidewalk are subject to serious injury. (I know this is <br />true, at 7:40 AM on February 11t", I had a serious fall on an <br />icy surface at my house which is in an area with solar <br />shading in the early morning hours.) If the building height <br />was reduced to four floors as originally propose to the <br />public this would not be a problem. <br />THE POINT OF ALL THIS, THE HIGH VOLUME OF TRAFFIC <br />FROM THE PROPOSED BUILDING WILL MAKE A VERY BAD <br />SITUTION CONSIDERABLY WORSE. <br />AS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR OVER 41 YEARS I <br />AM VERY AWARE OF THE ISSUES REGARDING TRAFFIC AT <br />THE CORNER OF 32ND AND HILYARD AND THE BICYCLE PATH <br />