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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, August 26.2002 7:00 o'clock p.m. (#02-2789 DAHLSTROM DEVELOPMENT, Continued) ------------------ Johnston stated that the applicant’s position was that, within the City development plans, there would cmf **** ******^ incorporated into it. He questioned how much the study Moorse indicated the shidy would run approximately $9,500. Johnston stated that this would not be a huge issue for them. Miuphy maintained that, personally, he felt the City should take responsibility for conducting more traiiic studies for future planning purposes anyway. White questioned the rationale for piggybacking the cost of the traffic study onto the Dahlstrom development. He felt it unfair to burden them with a responsibility that should be the City’s. M; yor Peterson asked if the study included the entire quadrant or simply their development area. Sa^vere stated that he could understand the developer not wanting to pay for the entire study I f there were things within it that wouldn ’t even impact them. Jolmston indicated that, originally, not knowing the magnitude of the study, the developer had only committed to paying for a portion of the study, however, now knowing the cost, they would be willmg to pay for the entire $9,500. ^ Nygard felt it to be the City’s responsibility to pay for the traffic study in regard to what uhe area was zoned to sup^rt. He believed it to be unfair to burden the developer with the entire cost of the study simply because the City had not executed its due diligence ahead of time. Murphy suggested splitting the cost of the traffic study. Dahlstrom felt that sounded to be a fair alternative. Gappa noted that staff would like to look at the entire corridor, from OCB and Highway 12 on He indicat^ t^s to be a timely study, which would help to develop a clear idea of what OCB Should look like. PAGE 10 of 22