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Session 1818 August 6, 2001 on one of its historic neighborhoods - Parkview. One may think that the City has gotten a good deal for MetroLink, but Parkview has been thrown to the dogs. This is just something that apparently has no importance to the City in making these kinds of deals with Bi-State or East West Gateway. In 1981, the City enacted a historic district ordinance that is chapter nine of the zoning code. This included restrictions applying to the preservation of the historical integrity of identified and designated historic districts in the City. Parkview was the first of the subdivisions considered as a residential historic district when this was drafted. Parkview is also only one of two historic districts that are residential subdivisions. Parkview has 125 or so houses. They are maintaining their homes under the historic district ordinance. They are willing to go the extra mile to do this. She believes that MetroLink is a serious threat to the integrity of the neighborhood. This is not an operation that you would want 30 - 50 feet from your bedroom windows. Surely the Council does not wish to impose this on its residents. She would suggest that the Council support the resolution. Thomas Knoten, 6363 Pershing, stated his support for the resolution, with some help from a Howard Nemerov poem. Amy Buxton, 201 Westgate, said it took them twelve years to find a home in their price range in U. City. They finally found one in Parkview. Her home is the chokepoint for the current proposed alignment. She can stand on her front porch and with a broom, touch the train as it goes by. She and her husband do not want this alignment and they want to stay in their home. She urges the Council to support the resolution. William Gass, 6304 Westminster, has been a Parkview resident for thirty years. He requests support of the resolution. Bi-State has not offered any sound solutions to the problems raised by its decision to roller coaster the line down Forest Park Parkway. The City wants MetroLink anyway it can get it and is working with Bi-State hand in glove. Wash U has supported MetroLink in all its variations, even going so far as offering to buy a Parkview home at 201 Westgate that is in the line of MetroLink's march. Thomas Vespa, 227 Westgate, asked for support for the resolution. They want a rail system that is complementary to their neighborhood. They are not anti MetroLink. He is a regular MetroLink user. He asks that tl~e vote by Council be by a show of hands, so it can be properly recorded by Parkview residents. They want a MetroLink that they can proud of. Mike Stephens, 6224 Waterman, asked for' support of the resolution. They want MetroLink built right and built safe by building MetroLink underground. He wants to make it clear that they are not anti MetroLink. They just want it built right. They feel that someone from Parkview should have been a representative on the Big Bend 8