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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD ON MARCH 17, 1997 (U2 - #2212 Sidney and Barbara Rebers - Continued) Gafiron indicated that the City was granted road and utility easements over the East Willow Woods and Sugar Woods frontage road segments when platted but ownership of the outlots remains with the respective developers. The specific conditions of the ea^>cment j allowing the City the right to build the road within Outlots C and D are limited. The Otten easement states that no road shall be constructed until the following occurs; 1) The owner of Outlot C, East Willow Woods, requests it to be built; or 2) Until an east/west frontage road is constructed from Willow Drive to Brown Road with southerly extensions from Sugar Woods to Hwy 12 and another lining up with Brimhall Lane; or 3) Upon rezoning of the two residential properties north of East Willow Woods to commercial; or 4) Upon development of Otten's easterly parcel as a separate entity from the currently developed westerly parcel, unless the City determines that no access is required for the easterly parcel. A right-in access currently exists from Willow Drive to the Otten property. Gafrron further explained the limitations of the City's Sugar Woods easement in relation to occurrences on the outlots. The development over Outlot E allows the construction of a 150' segment of frontage road adjacent to Outlot E. The easement over Otten's Outlot C precludes the segment of road until the entire frontage road is built from Brown to Willow. Gaffron questioned whether a 150' segment of frontage road would be desirable. The access impact on business development of Outlot E will likely determine how the buildings will be oriented. As a result, the developer will need to know whether or not the frontage road will occur. If that is unknown, the buildings would likely be oriented to the south. It was noted that since a semaphore currently exists at Willow, it would be appropriate from a traffic flow standpoint to develop the service road westward from Outlot E to Willow Drive prior to the development on Outlot E to eliminate the U-turn problem. Gaffron indicated that additional items to consider include a trail corridor. The existing sidewalk pathway on the north side of Hwy 12 is not the trail that was envisioned for the area. To maintain 60' of roadway to allow a trail to be constructed would require an additional triangle of right-of-way to be platted at this time with road/utility/drainage easements granted. GaSron noted the City Engineer has requested drainage and utility easements be granted over Outlot D since this did not occur when Outlot D was platted.