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05^il/93 15:30 MO.St.2 P002 <br />LINDQUIST & VENNUM p.l.l.p. <br />42C0 IDS CeNTER In Oen'/er <br />ec . OUTH EiOmTh STREtr UNOQJIST VENNUM & C h RISTESSEN P I lp <br />Mr -JEAPOUS. MuwESOTa 55402-2205 BQO 1 7th Street. SU»te 1500 <br />'•'EL2LPHONE 012-37143211 OCNNieP. COICRAOO 00202-5441 <br />FAX. 6l2-37l4i207 TelEPhon G: 30«7«900 <br />ATTOi.N'JVS A I* LAW <br />J^mes P. McCarthy <br />(612)371-3238 <br />jmccirthy@iindqu:$tCOm <br />May II. 1999 <br />The Honorable Mayor Gabriel Jabbour <br />Members of the Orono City Council <br />2750 Kelley Parkway <br />Orono, MN <br />R£: No. 2484:Woodhill Country Club <br />Application for Amendment to 1968 Conditional Use Permit <br />Dear Mayor Jabbour and Mcmbcn; of the City Council: <br />Because of the volume of materials on this issue. I want to put the remarks I will make at <br />the May 11, 1999 Orono City Council meeting in writing in advance of the meeting. This letter <br />and my remarks respond to the City Staff Report on Woodhill’s application, the City Engineer’s <br />Report on County Road 15. the letter of Mr. Malkerson who represents four neighbors, together <br />with a report of his tralTic engineer James Benshoff and four letters from neighbors. The volume <br />of materials submitted requires an extended response. <br />I. The City Engineer's County Road 15 Study Establishes the <br />Need for the Woodhill Avenue Access <br />The recently completed and adopted “Traffic Management Study” by the City’s <br />engineering firm, Bonestro Rosene Anderlik & Associates, amply establishes the dangerous <br />traffic safety problem faced by Woodhill Club members, Orono citizens, and the general public <br />on Highway 15 in front of Woodhill Country Club and Orono Orchard Road. County Road 15 is <br />the City of Orono’s most Important traffic safety problem. The average daily traffic in June 1998 <br />was 22.2.tR automobiles and Hennepin County estimates volumes will increase to 27,000 near <br />Orono Orchard Road in future years. The City Engineer concluded as follows: <br />“The conclusion of this analysis, given the daily volumes along the <br />roadway, is that the facility (County Road 151 is operating^in a. <br />congested mode today.” <br />(page 11) <br />Doc« MI9S04\)I