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I <br />I <br />I <br />exH, I <br />APPLICATION OF WOODHILL COUNTRY CLUB <br />This application is submitted in an effort to resolve the lawsuit between Woodhill <br />Country Club and the City of Orono. Woodhill has agreed to submit this request for an <br />amendment to its 1968 Conditional Use Permit without prejudice to Woodhill's position <br />in the pending lawsuit. <br />Pursuant to this understanding, Woodhill Country Club requests a reaffirmation of its <br />1968 Conditional Use Permit to use its property as a golf course and country club with a <br />primary and secondary access to public streets. In a good faith attempt to resolve the <br />current lawsuit, Woodhill will agree to and request that its 1968 CUP be amended (i) to <br />acknowledge certain basic rights of access to Woodhill Avenue, and (ii) to impose <br />certain new restrictions and conditions on Woodhill ’s access to Woodhill Avenue. <br />REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT OF 1968 CUP <br />Woodhill requests that Its 1968 Conditional Use Permit be amended to acknowledge <br />expressly Woodhill ’s following rights of vehicular access to Woodhill Avenue: <br />1. Woodhill can maintain an unbarricaded access to Woodhill Avenue. <br />2. Woodhill can gate and maintain control of the entrance to the Woodhill <br />property at Woodhill Avenue. <br />3. Woodhill Avenue access shall be available at all times to Emergency <br />Vehicles (police, fire, ambulance, and utility). <br />4. Woodhill Avenue access shall be available for entrance and exit by <br />Woodhill members and Invited guests between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. <br />during the days that Woodhill is open. (Woodhill is closed during the <br />month of March and on Mondays, unless Monday is a public holiday, in <br />which case the club closes on Tuesday.) <br />5. Woodhill Avenue access shall be available for transporting Woodhill <br />tractors to and from Long Lake for repair. <br />6. Woodhill Avenue access shall be available for general access if the <br />Woodhill Road access to Country Road 15 is temporarily blocked (subject <br />to reasonable notification to the City of Orono and affected neighbors). <br />7. Woodhill Avenue shall be available for access under the terms of that <br />certain Easement Agreement, dated October 5,1987 between the City of <br />Orono, Woodhill Country Club and MSM Associates (“Easement <br />Agreement"). <br />Consistent with the other rights under the 1968 CUP, the basic rights of access listed <br />above shall not be either revocable, for a limited time or subject to further review for the <br />purpose of change or revision except as permitted in Orono Code §10.09, subd. 11. <br />Doc«MII3l02\I <br />imJ