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Woodhill Avenue will not be visible to drivers turning left from <br />Woodhill Ridge onto Woodhill Avenue until they ore both In the middle <br />of the intersection. The same is true for cars driving up Woodhill <br />Avenue toward the club. These cars will be Invisible to drivers exiting <br />Woodhill Ridge until it is too late. Further, cars exiting Jane Delaney's <br />driveway, at 1315 Woodhill Avenue (corner of Woodhill and Orono <br />Orchard) has no warning of traffic turning right from Orono Orchard <br />onto Woodhill. The dramatic increase in traffic proposed by the club <br />would increase this danger. <br />WOODHILL AVENUE IS BUILT TO SUBSTANDARD WIDTH AND <br />CANNNOT ACCOMODATE A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN TRAFFIC <br />Before the Woodhill Ridge subdivision was built in 1988 Woodhill <br />Avenue was 16 feet wide. As a condition of approving the subdivision, <br />Orono required that the road be widened, for safety reasons. Although <br />the Orono Subdivision Code calls for a subdivision of 7 or fewer units to <br />be served by a road at least 24 feet wide plus 3 foot shoulders on each <br />side, the neighbors, developer and Woodhill Country Club, as seller of <br />the subdivision land and Co-Applicant to the subdivision process, did not <br />want the road widened to meet the standard. The City agreed to <br />compromise at 22 feet, expressly because only four units were being <br />built and the change in volume of traffic would be minimal. This <br />reasoning is expressly stated in the City Council minutes of June 15, <br />1987. The City further provided that the subdivision would not be <br />approved until agreement could be reached on how the improvements to <br />Woodhill Avenue would be paid for. Woodhill Country Club eventually <br />sold the land on which Woodhill Ridge was built to its developer. <br />However, the finalization of that sale was conditioned on the City's <br />approval of the subdivision. As a result, Woodhill Country Club had a <br />financial stake in seeing the subdivision approved. They paid 3/16ths <br />of the improvement cost, $11,565. Although their current application <br />claims that this payment was an assessment that entitles them to use <br />Woodhill Avenue, they have already received the benefit of this