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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION <br />Monday, August 17, 2020 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 6 of 7 <br /> <br />or for those residents in Lots 1, 2 and 3, they will have to provision to come down to County Road 15 and <br />asked if there was anything in the plan for that. <br /> <br />Mr. Gronberg answered that’s a very good idea and they could look into that, noting they are hampered a <br />little bit by such a narrow corridor there and all the wetlands, but they could see if there’s room for <br />someone, even if they come down in a golf cart, to pull off. <br /> <br />Libby noted that is a great idea as that is a safety measure that he’s seen become a serious problem in his <br />neighborhood and he thinks it’s a helpful provision. He noted it’s always been discussed after the <br />Tanager Estates first designed the provision that if this was ever to double, would there be a safe method <br />for people to cross County Road 15, so the residents in Lots 1, 2 and 3 that will have dockage there, will <br />have to transfer themselves across the road. <br /> <br />Mr. Gronberg noted they could not do it on County right -of-way, but that’s a very good point to look at. <br /> <br />Libby encouraged Mr. Gronberg to contact himself or someone from the Fox Hill Homeowners’ <br />Association because they have endeavored very seriously as an HOA to discuss with Mr. Godfrey and <br />other traffic and safety control engineers in Hennepin County to allow some type of a painted crosswalk <br />or signal. He said they are a neighborhood of 26 residents with 16 boat-slips, about the fourth or fifth <br />largest commercial dock system on the lake and even with children and elderly people walking across on <br />a regular basis, they were completely turned down even after traffic counts. He said he would welcome it <br />if Mr. Gronberg would like to collaborate with his neighborhood eventually and see if they could go back <br />to Hennepin County to get some genuinely safe methods of transit across County Road 15. <br /> <br />Mr. Gronberg stated he knows how tough it is to get back and forth across that road. <br /> <br />Libby said it is a safety issue that is almost beyond comprehension as in his neighborhood there are three <br />or four families with minor children under 10 years old and must transition across with small children. <br />He said he has a number of clients, friends and acquaintances who are quite elderly, including his wife <br />who will be 80 years old at the end of the month, and they must transition that road to go over and use <br />their lakeshore and their dock. He stated he thinks it’s important to collaborate in the future in getting <br />Hennepin County to do something. Libby asked if Mr. Gronberg could not create parking at the juncture <br />of the private driveway and County Road 15, would they have a wide enough thoroughfare there that <br />some of the residents and their guests can park and then walk down the approximately two blocks. <br /> <br />Mr. Gronberg answered they could work with the city to have a bit wider of a lane down there if there <br />isn’t enough room for parking and thanked Libby for the ideas he brought up. <br /> <br />McCutcheon stated he had nothing to add. <br /> <br />Ressler asked Barnhart if this is City sewer. <br /> <br />Barnhart answered yes. <br /> <br />Ressler asked Barnhart if MUSA allows City sewer and water. <br /> <br />Barnhart answered MUSA is for City sewer and that water is a different entity. <br />