Re: request for council action/subdivision

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#2466 Renckens & Winston May 21, 1999 Page 7 IBID., P. 7-7: "Roadway maintenance concerns are perhaps the most significant factor in long-range transportation planning for Orono... the planning concerns for new roadways include not only the initial cost-benefit question, but also the worry about spreading future maintenance capability beyond the reach of limited crews or limited budgets." From a Public Works perspective,maintenance of through streets is less costly and more efficient than maintenance of cul-de-sacs. RURAL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES,NO. 4, P. 7-12: "Rural residential developments will utilize private road feeders to supplement the existing public road grid Because of topographical limitations, the historic shape of rural land divisions, and the low density of rural land use, most residential lots are best preserved (sic) by short dead-end roads running off the existing street system. The low number of dwellings on each road, the dead-end configuration and the scattered road locations make public roadway maintenance excessively costly compared to any public benefit. Therefore, most new rural lots will be directly served by privately owned and maintained roadways. New public streets will be accepted where a 'through' configuration provides a general public benefit and/or where the number of residences justies public maintenance expense." RURAL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES NO. 5, P. 7-12: "Private rural roadways will be constructed to rural design standards....The length of dead- end roads will be limited for public safety purposes." Crystal Creek Road was allowed to exceed the City's length standard because it was intended to connect through to the east in the future. RURAL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES NO. 7, P. 7-13: "Driveway locations and rural street or private road intersections will be limited for traffic safety. Rural traffic speed is generally faster than that in urban neighborhoods requiring greater sight distances and a lesser number of intersection conflicts for the same degree of traffic safety. Joint use of carefully located private roads will generally be preferred over direct access onto public highways from separate properties." The subdivision as proposed ultimately would result in an additional access point onto Watertown Road where only one now exists.