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AllianceCapilal <br />received <br />JAM 2 2 <br />CITV OF OHONO <br />Alliance Capital <br />Management Corporation <br />First Bank Place <br />601 Second Avenue South - Suite 5000 <br />Minneapolis. MN 55402-4322 <br />Tel: (612)332-1544 <br />Fax: (612) 673-8253 <br />Alfred Harrison <br />Vice Chairman141*^ Shoreline Drive <br />Hayzata, MN 55391 <br />Mr. Michael P. Gaffron <br />Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />City of Orono <br />2750 Kelley Parkway, P.O. Box 66 <br />Crystal Bay, Minnesota 55323 <br />Reconstruction of County Road 15 <br />Dear Mr. Gaffron: <br />While sympathetic to the desire to improve County Road 15 I <br />strongly urge you to be aware in your planning of the major <br />hazard that currently exists, and which is likely to be <br />exacerbated by my understanding of the current proposal. <br />Already the entrance to our drive at 1410 Shoreline Drive is <br />dangerous for my family and visitors because cars coming behind <br />us from the direction of 394 take the corner by Orono Orchard <br />Road at a good speed and do not expect, or believe, our right <br />turning light means we are slowing to make a turn into our <br />driveway. They often screech to a halt behind us at the last <br />minute. The current proposal in widening the area from Orono <br />Orchard Road would only increase the likelihood they will take <br />this corner at even greater speed. <br />Similarly any increase in speed in this area, due to widening, <br />will make it more difficult for us to make a left access on to <br />County Road 15 from our driveway at txie poinc where the road once <br />again narrows to t'o lanes. <br />What concerns us mo? t. however, is that the area immeo. stely <br />opposite our driveway is used by hundreds of fisherma:. <br />especially during the late spring, and is an entry poxnt Into the <br />lake for ice fishers during the winter. Cars constantly park in <br />the area opposite to us and add to the potential danger. Most <br />critical in this respect is the fact that most of these fisherman <br />are not local residents and assume that the only place to turn <br />their cars around is to use the entrance to our driveway. <br />Obviously this is frustrating to us, but it now creates an even <br />greater safety problem if more people are now tempted to make <br />these dangerous turn-arounds in a slightly wider area whiiA. cars <br />are coming around the corner at greater speeds. This woul-1 be an <br />accident waiting to happen!