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i Mayor and City Council May 4. 1999 Page 3 vehicular access to its property from Woodhill Avenue (see Response No 17 by the Cit> to the Club’s Request for Admissions). The Club then applied for a conditional use permit on May 31 1968. On September 9, 1968, the Village of Orono approved a conditional use permit for non- conforming uses for 150 acres of the Club and the conditional use permit was issued on September 13, !968. The hand drawn map attached thereto does not show any proposed use of Woodhill Avenue. This lack of connection is confirmed by Response No. 15 by the City to the Club’s Request for Admissions. 7. Apparently at some point the zoning ordinance was amended to allow golf courses as a conditional use permit in this district. However, the Club has never applied for a conditional use permit for the entire 214 acre site, including use of any proposed access road to Woodhill Avenue. 8. The Club has from time to time applied for conditional use permits for specific new buildings and/or uses on the property which were processed as conditional use permits by the City. However, the Club has not sought a conditional use permit for the property as a wh.ole (214 acres) or for this proposed access road. The Club is now seeking a conditional use permit for the proposed access road to service the entire 2 14 acre site. 9. Prior to 1978 the Club had closed and not used the way mentioned above. In May. 1978. the Club opened the gate to that way and there were numerous problems in m\ clients’ neighborhood relating to speeding cars, noise and safety. The City Council review'cd the issues on November 14. 1978. The Club thereafter locked off the way from further vehicular use in the fall of 1978. In 1980, the Club decided to keep the way closed and it has been closed since 1980 other than possibly to drive a tractor down it in 1990 and again in 1997. so the tractor could be driven to Long Lake for repairs (see deposition of Richard Fredrickson, the golf course Club s superintendent from 1989 to the present). From 1980 until presently, the pathway wa.s used otherwise only for bicycles and pedestrians. 10. In 1988, the Club applied for and was granted a conditional use permit for a maintenance building on top of the hill overlooking Woodhill Avenue. At that time representatives of the Club represented to the City staff that the way to the west to Woodhill Avenue would not be opened. Jeanne Mebusth stated in her deposition on page 95; Part of my review would have to know if they ’re going to use Woodhill Avenue for access to that maintenance facility. That would be very crucial thing. They told me no. All access would come from the east from the existing road system they have. I said fine, Now I wanted to get into the temporary uses. So, was it going to be used during construction. No. 2602S