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I I I r I I I I I L L 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Private rural roadways will be constructed to rural design standards. The City will regulate private road design standards to ensure environmental protection and adequate all weather access to all properties. The type and width of road surface required will vary with the number of residences to be served and hence the amount of expected vehicle usage. The length of dead-end roads will be limited for public safety purposes. The City will guarantee reasonable maintenance levels and public access on all private roads. In the process of approving rural subdivisions, the City will acquire underlying public ingress, egress, and access easements over all private roads. These easements will ensure legal access of the public to all properties served by the private road. Development contracts backed by acceptable forms of financial responsibility will assure that all private roads are designed and constructed according to City approved standards and specifications. The City will further guarantee that all private roads are maintained to reasonable standards at all times through required maintenance agreements and/or homeowner's associations, and that failure of the private group to so maintain their private road will be cause for the City to accomplish needed maintenance and to assess the benefitted properties for the direct cost of such maintenance. Driveway locations and rural street or private road intersections will be limited for traffic safct>'. Rural traffic speed is generally taster than that in urban neighborhoods requiring greater sight distances and a lesser number of intersection conflicts for the same degree ot tratlic safety. Joint use of carefully located private roads will generally be preferred over direct access onto public highways from separate properties. Rural trails arc an integral part of the total alternate transportation system. Rural trails offer access to the Hennepin County Park Reserve Lands from all areas of the City. Rural trails offer horseback riding as well as walking and bicycle opportunities. The City will encourage completion of the planned bike-hike trail system and the private development of rural trails connecting the public trail system with individual rural properties. The City will continue to restrict motorized use of trails within Orono as inappropriate to the trail's basic purpose and as incompatible with adjacent residential properties. The City will not promote mass transportation scr>ices for rural Orono. The planned rural land use density cannot economically support public transit ser%ices. E.xisting bus routes pass through the rural area enroute between Long Lake, Wayzata and urban Orono.' These routes are sufficient to scr\’c Orono's rural needs and will in lact provide additional rural service as the need for additional urban service increases. No new CMP 4A - 16 0