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• •• • <br />COUMC* -------'*'Q <br />JAN 5 1999. <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY OF ORONO <br />DATE: January 21,1999 <br />ITEM NO.: J_j <br />Department Approval: iK <br />Name Michael P. Gaffron <br />Title Senior Planning Coordinator <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description: #2425 Sid & Barbara Rebers / Jean Mork Bredeson (Service 800, Inc.) - <br />Access Update: Review of Options <br />Application: Conversion of Outlet E, Sugar Woods to buildable lot status. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Options la/b/c: Easement Through Otten Property <br />B - Option 2: MnDOT Easement Tumback/Reconveyance <br />C - Option 3: Permanent Right-In/Right-Out at Existing Curb Cut <br />D - Staff Letter to MnDOT January 19,1999 <br />E - Developer's Proposed Option 2 Parking Layout & Site Plan Revision <br />F - Memo & Selected Exhibits of January 8,1999 <br />On January 11 Council tabled action on final plat approval because the developers had not been able <br />to obtain Ae required MnDOT permit for access across from Brimhall Avenue. Council directed <br />staff to w ork with MnDOT and the developer to see if this issue could be resolved. <br />MnDOT Meeting <br />On Thursday January 14 staff and the developer’s representatives met with MnDOT officials to <br />review the issues and determine what options may be available. We learned that: <br />MnDOT would not approve the access as proposed because the driveway is <br />essentially parallel to Hwy 12 while still in the right-of way. MnDOT requires that all <br />accesses within their right-of-way be at an angle of no less than 60 degrees, i.e. nearly <br />perpendicular to the highway. <br />MnDOT will approve an access that heads northward into Otten's property, and then <br />turns right into the Service 800 site once it is past the right-of-way line (Option 1). This <br />would require significant changes to the Service 800 site plan. <br />MnDOT may look favorably on a reconveyance or turnback of the triangular portion <br />of right-of-wny (Option 2). In a reconveyance. MnDOT would conclude it no longer needs <br />the triangle for right-of-way, and the property would revert back to the underlying owner (the <br />1