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#2480 - Spring Hill - Prelim. Plat April 15, 1999 Page 2 As outlets, these disconnected parcels will be assigned separate PINS numbers, and it will then be possible for the Club to sell them to adjacent property owners should the Club choose to do so. Neither outlet is buildable, and the final plat approval resolution will clearly identify this fact. Portion of Lot 1, Block 1 in Medina The northern half of Lot 1, Block 1, is in Medina. The applicant is advised to contact Medina to determine whether separate plat approval action by the Medina City Council is required. Right-Of-Way Widths Coujitv Road 6 Because the property abuts County Road 6, Hennepin County has been advised of this application and has been requested to comment on it. Staff anticipates a County request for additional right-of way. This stretch of County Road 6 is designated on the Hennepin County Bicycle Transportation Plan as a "Bikeway", which under the County plan could require a total of 100' of right-of-way where only 80' now exists. Orono's 1980 Comprehensive Plan defines County Road 6 as a 'minor arterial' roadway requiring a minimum right-of-way width of 80 ’. Dave Zetterstrom of Hennepin County has verbally indicated the County will formally request an additional 10' on either side of County Road 6. City policy prior to approximately 1980 was to honor such requests, as evidenced by a number of plats that occurred in the 1970's. However, during the 1980's and 1990's the City generally only approved the County's additional right-of-way requests when they were in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan minimums, or where planned County Road improvements were pending that required added right-of-way. The City's apparent policy was to not burden our property owners %vith uncompensated loss of land to right-of-ways that weren’t clearly needed. The 1997 Hennepin County Bikeway Plan established a policy that requires 100% City funding of right-of-way acquisitions when the right-of-way initially requested by the County during plat review was declined by the City. Otherwise, the right-of-way funding formula is 50% City, 50% County. Orono Subdivision Code Section 11.40 Subd. 2 states: "...when the Comprehensive Municipal Plan or some other agency indicates plans for realignment or widening a road that would require use of some of the land in the subdivision, the subdivider shall be required to improve and dedicate at his expense such areas for widening or realignment of such roads...."