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August 21.2000 • f' • I City of Orono City Planner Paul Weinberger 2750 Kelly Parkway Crystal Bay. MN 55323 Dear Mr. Weinberger, We ere writing to express our opinion on the proposed Cfeekside Forest development by Mr. Charles Van Eeckhout We are tg§ln§t the use of Apple Glen Road. In the City of Long Lake, fbr access to the development for the following reasons: • in 1997 Apple Glen Road was reconstructed at a width of 26 ft. as opposed to the 32 ft. width that was originally proposed as part of Long Lake's plan to have all newly constructed streets be a uniform width. This was because the City of Long Lake determined that because there was a large mature tree along the right of way and approximately only 14 residences located on Apple Glen Road a narrower street was acceptable. An addition of 7 lots/ residences would create a 50% increase In the amount of traffic on Apple Glen, which Is dearly not what the road was designed for. • Construction traffic created by the 7 proposed residences would surely create excessive wear and tear on the newly constructed Apple Glen Road surface. • Wo have learned that Mr. Van Eeckhout offered an absurdly low amount of money to acquire a smell amount of property from one of his neighbor to the north so that access to the development could be off of South Brown Road. It appears he may have offored such a low price because he didn't want the street to go by/i/s front yard in the first place. He would rather have all of the traffic created by the new homeowners driving by the front yards of 14 or so other residences on someone else's street (i.e. Apple Glen). • Apple Glen Road is having a sort of turnover of young families living on It These fomiiies have young children and any increase In the amount of vehicular traffic creates a safety concern for the children playing in the neighborhood. • It is our understanding that when Apple Glen Road was reconstructed in 1997 the City of Long Lake approached the City of Orono about acquiring a small amount of land on the Orono side of the border for the purpose of constructing a cul-de-sac for Apple Glen. City of Orono ^dals purportedly refused to cooperate with Long Lake’s request. It is Ironic that this roadway use proposal Is now before the City of Orono after their lack of cooperation regarding the proposed cul-de-sac. Although we are not personally opposed to the proposed Long Lake/Orono merger, many of our neighbors are because of the aforementioned and other issues involving the City of Orono In which they foel Orono tries to dominate Long Lake. Allowing the use of Apple Glen for this development would gn§tty increase the anti-Orono sentiment (over) t ‘d 80[0 ‘ON tE90 sa 219 3193A 3QNVA MWi 0002-12'«»*V