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i i Zoning Pile #1163 June 10^ 1907 Page 3 of 4 Please walk the length of the staked road (center line staking) - you will find the first cut just beyond the last driveway on Woodhill Avenue where the paving ends. Staff can appreciate the applicant's desire to preserv'e the woodlands and existing amenities of this unique property with the proposed development. The request for the 20 feet width requires a variance to our standards, it is the applicant's responsibility to present the hardships by providing road plans that locate these special trees to be saved, design standards proposed to address steep topography concerns, etc. The City has worked with applicants in the past with these very same concerns, staff must review the road plans in order to evaluate the hardships, and, if variances are to be granted, to determine the degree of the variances. Planning Commission may wish to direct the technical staff to resolve the specifics of the road standard variance and to ask for consideration of the following; 1. Private road to serve no more than 4 lots. 2. Uniqufe property - need to preserve natural amenities. 3. City has granted similar variances based on size of development (3 to 4 units) and/or need to preserve amenities or steep topography: Stronghold Plat of 3 lots; Wakefield Farm 3rd Addition - 4-5 lots; Plentywood - 9 lots. Issue of Woodhill Avenue - Woodhill Avenue is substandard per public road standards for a road that would now serve a total of 7 units (3 existing residences already served). The paved width is 16 feet with no turn-around provided at the end. The City will ask that developer provide a cul-de-sac per the attached staff sketch (see Exhibit F) and grant additional right-of-way, if needed, for future road upgrading. Applicant's engineer should submit plans that would place the cul-de-sac in a location that will provide least disturbance to existing improvements and amenities. Note from the enclosed survey that the eastern portion of the road does not continue within the designated right-of-way. Note driveway access on north side of the road I Dralnfield and Hose I<ocation - Staff has had the opportunity to walk with applicant's engineer to review the location of drainfields in relation to selected home locations. Staff's comments are as follows (refer to Exhibit P): 1. Lot 1. Moving or shifting of the cul-de-sac will have no negative effects on this lot. The drainfield and home will be located on the higher grounds to the east - standard trench is proposed. 2. Lot 2. The relocation of the cul-de-sac may siake Lot 2 conform to width standard. A mound system is proposed.