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April 13.200S <br />To; Ron Moorse, City Administrator (V <br />From: Greg Gappa, Director of Public Services ^ <br />Subject: Townline Road <br />The first 2,500 feet of Townline Road north of County Road 6 is located along the <br />Orono/ Independence border with each City owning Vi of the road. The remaining 700 <br />feet of road is located along the Medina/Independence border with each City owning 'A <br />of the road. <br />This road used to connect CR6 and TH12 and had about 1,000 vehicles per day utilizing <br />the road prior to 1998 when the connection to TH12 was closed because of traffic safety <br />concerns at the intersection. There are 17 homes that utilize Townline Road for access <br />which results in a daily traffic count of about 170 vehicles per day. <br />Townline Road is an old 20 foot wide township road with minimal base course that has <br />never been formally paved with hot mix applied using an asphalt paver and roller. The <br />pavement surface is comprised of road mix which is completed by mixing asphalt oil and <br />aggregate on the road with a grader. This is a very conunon paving method that was used <br />for many years on rural township roads. The existing pavement in the <br />Orono/lndependence section is in moderate to poor condition with several areas of poor <br />underlying soils and broken up pavement. There is about SOO feet of poor quality <br />pavement and 2,000 feet of moderate quality pavement in this section. The majority of <br />road in the Medina/Independence section is in poor condition as this area of the road is <br />adjacent to a large wetland with poor soils. <br />Independence has been plowing the road as Orono does not have any other City streets in <br />this vicinity. Orono has been patching the road, and since the closure in 1998 <br />substantially reduced the traffic volume the amount of patching required has been <br />minimal. Every year, we spend a day patching Townline Road after the spring thaw <br />breakup and then occasional patching the rest of the sununer and fall. <br />The current plan is for construction traffic from the Park Ridge Acres subdivision new <br />street construction and site grading to access the site from TH 12. This access will be <br />closed after the new road is completed as it will no longer be needed for the four Orono <br />properties that currently use the access to TH12.The increased truck traffic, on Townline <br />Road, from the new house construction in the Park Ridge Acres subdivision in Medina <br />will have a negative impact on the road that is hard to quantify at this time. <br />Page 1 of 2