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* <br />I# • <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Mayor Peterson and Council Members <br />Ron Moorsc, City Atlministrator <br />June 3, 2001 <br />SUBJECT: Background Information Regarding the Woodhill Country Club CUP Application <br />In 1998, the Woodhill Countr>' Club decided tn open np a connection from the Country Club to <br />Woodhill Avenue to provide an alternate access to the Club. The purpose was to enable <br />members to avoid the heavy traffic on County Road IS. Providing the alternate access on <br />Woodhill Avenue meant opening up a roadway that had been a cul de sac for many years. The <br />residents along Woodhill Avenue, and on a small cul de sac connected to Woodhill Avenue, <br />objected to the change from a cul de sac to an access to the Club. <br />1 he initial issue concerning the connection was a legal issue regarding whether the Club had the <br />right to connect to a public road without authorization by the City. The City and the Club were <br />involved in a legal dispute regarding this issue. This legal dispute was set aside when the Club <br />made an application for a CUP to enable the use of the access. The result of the CUP application <br />process was the approval of the u.se of the access as a one-way access in to the Club, within a set <br />of conditions. <br />The Woodhill Country Club has now made an application to amend the CUP to allow the <br />connection from Woodhill Drive to be a two-way connection. It is important that the Council <br />has an understanding of the initial application as it considers the current application. Attached to <br />this memo is a set of materials related to the initial CUP application. The materials include the <br />following: <br />■ Resolution #4305 granting the CUP for driveway access to Woodhill Avenue <br />■ The staff report regarding the CUP application <br />■ The minutes of Ute special Council meeting at which the CUP application was heard <br />■ A letter from Bruce Malkerson, the attorney representing a number of residents who lived <br />along Woodhill Avenue <br />■ A cover letter from James McCarthy, the attorney representing the Club, and the narrative <br />titled Application of Woodhill Country Club <br />■ A letter from Parsons Brinkerhoff, the traffic engineer hired by the Club, regarding a <br />traffic study conducted to analyze the traffic impacts of opening the connection from the <br />Club to Woodhill Avenue.