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• i <br />f <br />#2466 Renckens & Winston <br />May 21,1999 <br />Page 8 <br />ORONO'S ROADWAY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (Excerpts from descriptions of <br />various types of roadways) P. 7-16, 7-17: <br />Private Road: <br />Maximum Service: Approximately 10 residential properties <br />Dead -end: Length will be limited by public safety considerations <br />Private Driveway <br />Maximum Service: 1 residence typical; joint driveways allowed with maximum three <br />residents per driveway in rural areas: more users require private road <br />standards <br />Driveway width: Will be regulated where more than one user is involved or for <br />public safety purposes where there is excessive length between the residence <br />and the public road <br />In the opinion of staff, the above CMP excerpts strongly support the premise that Crystal Creek <br />Road should be continued eastward to eventually connect with other area roads, for public safety <br />purposes as w ell as for future efficiency of maintenance if the private road is someday converted to <br />a public road. <br />Whether or not the 50' outlet is required, access for the north lot should come from Crystal Creek <br />Road (as now proposed) to avoid the need for an excessively long driveway. Further, staff strongly <br />urges that the flag portion of the back lot be platted as a 30' outlet corridor for the following reasons: <br />1. Preserves the integrity of the back-lot/front-lot ordinance. <br />2. Preserves the appropriate setbacks for the north lot (i.e. the south east-west line of the north <br />lot becomes a front lot line as the code intended) <br />In staffs opinion the loss of acreage to a code-required 30' driveway outlot is not a hardship. <br />Further, if the north lot is served from a 50' road to the north, there will be ample acreage to do a lot <br />split with both lots having 200 feet of frontage on that road. The problem here is that Renckens' <br />vision of future development of the north lot is to place the initial residence in a location making a <br />side-by-side split impossible, and ultimately splitting off the south half of the north lot as a flag lot <br />using the 30' corridor to Watertown for access (but needing a lot area variance to do so). <br />Access to Outlot B, Crystal Creek <br />Alan Carlson, original developer of the adjacent Crystal Creek subdivision, owns Outlot B, Crystal <br />Creek, which does not abut any public or private roadway. The City has no apparent legal obligation