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f <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />'MCM. meeting <br />AUG 1 4 2000 <br />Ui I r yjtiUNO <br />DATE: August 10,2000 <br />ITEM NO.3 <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Paul Weinberger <br />Title Zoning Administrator/Planner <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description:#2568 The Bancor Group Inc. (Willow View Developers, LLC) <br />Southwest comer of County Road 6 and Willow Drive North (Willow View) <br />Review of Entrance Monument Plan <br />Exhibits: <br />A <br />B <br />C <br />D <br />E <br />F <br />Overhead View of North Entrance to Willow View Drive. <br />Side Elevation of Willow View Entrance Monument <br />Park Sketch <br />Sketches and Plans for Mailbox Structures <br />Approved Street Plan for Willow View <br />Bikeways Manual 6-5.0 <br />Summary of Request: <br />The resolution approving the Willow View development required a review of the monument plan <br />by the City Council. The plans have been submitted for a review of the entrance monument at the <br />north entrance of Willow Drive. The developers have also submitted additional plans for benches <br />along the bike/walking trails as well as mailbox supports. <br />The north entrance is a split entrance with an island between the lanes of traffic. Proposed is a <br />monument entrance with lettering identifying the “Willow View” neighborhood. The structure <br />would arch over the bike/walking trail and have a total length of 20'. Material would be metal posts <br />to give it a “gate ” style appearance. Only Willow View would be lettered. <br />MnDot has established recommended clearance heights and widths for underpasses along bike trails. <br />The proposed drawing, Exhibit B, indicates a clearance height of only 6’ for the arch and an 8' width. <br />According to the MnDot Bikeways Manual it would be recommended the arch have a clearance <br />height of approximately 1 O' and a 12' width. (Bikeways Manual 6-5.0 is attached as Exhibit F). The <br />trail will have an 8' width allowing a 2' clearance on each side for an arch constructed to the <br />standards established in the Manual. <br />Staff has discussed the use of lights with the developer and landscape architect. It may be more <br />appropriate to have ground level lighting to illuminate the monument to identify the entrance and <br />to make the island visible during the evening. The proposed location of the entrance light may <br />impact the adjacent residential structures in Willow View and Shadowood.