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VINSTON LAW OFFICE r <br />November 18,1998 <br />•• •• <br />;*i)v 1 > <br />♦. Ij <br />Elizabeth Van Zomeren <br />City Planner/Zoning Administrator <br />Orono City Hall <br />P.O. Box o6 <br />Crystal Bay, MN 55323 <br />RE: Orono Planning File No. 2441; HilbelinkA^ote; 3020 Watertown Road <br />Dear Ms. Van Zomeren: <br />Thank you for advising me of the proposed subdivision of the prcmerty located <br />to my immediate West. Whfle it is probable 1 will be advised of future Planning <br />Commission and City Council hearings involving the property, 1 want to make sure <br />that I am on record as requesting notice of all such hearings, as well as any other less <br />formal proceedings before either the Planning Commission or Council. <br />ture <br />Secondly, I reouest a copy of the report you submitted to the Plaiming <br />Commission for its November 16 meeting. Similarly, 1 request copies of all m <br />staff reports involving the proposed subdivision. <br />I also want to be on record as opposing the creation of a through street which <br />would somehow connert Wear Lane North wth Crystal Creek Road. I anticipated <br />that Wear Lane North might some day see traffic from lots created from the Stubbs <br />Bay Movers property to my North, but it was never my anticipation that we could <br />also see traffic from property to our West. It is one thing to have an additional two <br />or three lots have access from Wear Lar.<*. ^t is quite a different thing to have the <br />twelve Crystal Creek lots plus, as propos .u, an additional three lots 5so to have <br />access to Wear Lane Norm. <br />oc appucu m inis case, ana rnai, rrom a planners perspective, a cui-ae-sac noi <br />always be the preferred ^proach. At the same time, however, the creation of cul-d< <br />sac roads in the City of Orono certainly has precedence. fSee enclosed half section <br />map of property to my South which shows four such cul-de-sacs.) Further, here we <br />have the complication of a private road possibly being connected to a public road. In <br />other words, there is support for cul-de-sacs in the City of Orono, and there is at least <br />one factor which distinguishes this situation, and supports my request that Wear <br />Lane North remain a cul-de-sac road. <br />Thank you for this further opportunity to express my views on the matter. <br />Sincerely,* <br />JBW/kmt <br />Enclosure <br />. Winston <br />4420 IDS Center, 80 SoulK 8tk Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402 Tel: 612/341-9800 F«: 612/338-6351