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Mayor and City Council Ron Moorse, City Administrator .L Mays, 1998 SUBJECT: Woodhill Alternate Access On Wednesday, May 6, staff was made aware that Woodhill Country Club had done grading work on their property to create a driveway connection from the golf course to Woodhill Avenue (please see the attached map). The purpose of the driveway connection is to provide an alternate access to Woodhill Country Club to address the problem of access to and from the Country Club from County Road 15 —particularly during the County Road 15 construction period. The driveway work was done without communication with the City and without permits. Once the City became aware of the work, a Stop Work order was placed on the project, and a meeting was scheduled with Woodhill representatives for Thursday, May 7. At the meet ag with the Woodhill representatives, staff discussed with the representatives Woodhill's intentions regarding the access and the process to be used to address issues and concerns of both the City and the neighbors related to the access. Staff indicated a key elen.ent of the process needed to be an effort by Woodhill Country Club to identify and address the concerns of the neighbors related to the access. At the meeting, staff indicated that if the golf course was planning the access to be a permanent access, it would require an amendment to their conditional use permit. The City Administrator indicated that if the golf course was able to adequately address the concerns of the City and the neighbors regarding the access, it would be possible to open the access on a temporary basis to address the traffic problems on County Road 15. Subsequent to the meeting with the Woodhill Country Club representatives, and after further discussions with the Building and Zoning staff and the City Attorney, it was determined that the process related lo the access should proceed more slowly and that the access should not be opened without action by the City Council. A letter to Mark Albrecht, the manager of the Woodhill Country Club, setting out the City's position related to the access is attached.