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also serves 11 families (compared to 6 homes on Woodhill Avenue). It will improve <br />traffic safety for everyone on County Road 15. It will also greatly increase traffic safety <br />for those members who live to the west and north of the Club. As discussed below, it <br />will not create any substantial traffic impact on Woodhill Avenue. <br />WOODHILL AVENUE CAN SAFELY HANDLE THE LIMITED TRAFFIC FROM <br />WOODHILL COUNTRY CLUB <br />The anticipated level of traffic on Woodhill Avenue will be less than the traffic during the <br />many decades Woodhill Avenue was a gravel road. During those decades, there was <br />no hour limitation and no limitation on commercial or delivery traffic. It was used by <br />members, guests, and employee families who lived in two homes on the Woodhill <br />property near Woodhill Avenue, and their guests, as well as by numerous delivery and <br />service vehicles, including large oil delivery trucks, food trucks, and septic tank trucks. <br />The conditions proposed in this application severely limit the scope of the access. The <br />22' wide bituminous paved Woodhill Avenue is more than adequate to handle an <br />additional 20 to 60 trips per day. Woodhill Avenue is wider than and paved as well as <br />Woodhill Road that currently carries all club vehicular traffic. <br />The anticipated traffic from the country club on Woodhill Avenue is not appreciably <br />greater than the traffic on Woodhill Avenue at the time the three houses with driveways <br />directly onto Woodhill Avenue were built. Indeed, there was probably more traffic at <br />that time from the barn, horse stable, skeet range, and employee houses. This is <br />particularly true of the Wood ’s residence, which was built in the late 1950 ’s. The two <br />residences located at the intersection of Orono Orchard Road and Woodhill Avenue <br />have a limited impact from the restoration of the Woodhill Avenue access. <br />Approximately the same number of cars would pass by these residences since the <br />persons who will use the Woodhill Avenue access currently pass by those two houses <br />on Orono Orchard Road to and from County Road 15. <br />There are currently three homes located in the Woodhill Ridge development that have <br />driveways that access the private road, which in turn intersects Woodhill Avenue. The <br />distance from the garage of the cul-de-sac (Mailie residence) to the Woodhill Avenue <br />intersection of the Woodhill property line is only slightly less than the distance from <br />Orono Orchard Road to the Woodhill property line. Given the large lots and long <br />driveways of the three homes in the Woodhill Ridge development, these houses will <br />have no club traffic directly in front of their houses. Given the location, width, and <br />length of their private road, there is more than adequate distance to enter and exit their <br />driveways safely without encountering any traffic from Woodhill Country Club. The no ­ <br />left turn sign currently placed on Woodhill Avenue and the natural flow to Orono <br />Orchard Road should prevent any use of the private road by Woodhill members. <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />*• • I <br />Doc« I113102 M 8