01-06-2014 Council Packet Special Meeting

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Item #01- Special Council Meeting - 01106114 File #13-3638 & 13-3639 [Total Pages 99] Tandem is aware of the proposed Highway 12 Corridor Study and the designation of a portion of the Dickey parcel as a potential corridor. We have discussed this with the City of Orono staff and officials, MNDOT representatives and representatives of the community. It is our judgment that a selection of this site as a future Highway 12 alignment is unlikely. Park Issues Our proposal incorporates park isues recommended by the Orono Park Commission: 1) The preservation of the traditional Native American sacred site west of the Dickey home south of Watertown Road. The plan proposes a 3 acre public park site. The Park Commission believes it should be a public park if it is established by authorities that the site is a sacred site. 2) Tandem proposes the city and/or private groups should have the opportunity to evaluate the buildings on the park site and the city should decide if they are suitable for preservation. 3) Tandem will dedicate an easement along the east side of Old Crystal Bay Road sufficient to construct a bike/hike trail to the city's standards.. The trail will use existing road right of way and addition- al easements to work with the existing trees and future septic sites for lots 1, 2, 3 Block 1 of the Dickey parcel. Tandem will dedicate and construct the trail with acreage credit and trail construction costs credited against the city park fees due on the Coffin/Dickey sites. 4) The trail connections from outlot A (proposed park) on the Dickey site to the two streets within the drainage utility easments between lots 13 & 14, block 2 and lots 2 & 3 block 1. Also the easements between lots S & G and the rear lot line of lot G block 1 connecting to the DNR woods shall be homeowners association responsibility and not credited to the public park requirement. The private trail easement on the Coffin site between lots 13 & 14, thru lot 8 adjacent to wetland and between lots 3 & 4 will be the responsibility of the homeowners association.