09-28-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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Crystal Bay Road Repair September 20, 1988 Page 3 of 5 4. Stabilization of the road and Utilities. (Attachment D, Clenn Cook's letter dated 6/21/88.) As a result of the City's limited property rights in the matter, together with a lack of concensus to jointly undertake a project to restore the bank in at least a coordinated manner, the Engineer presented two options as noted in his letter. Such an option would allow the City to remain within its right-of-way to stabilize the bank and at the same time let the residents restore their individual hanks as they see fit. Concerns with each of these Alternatives as as follows: 1. Stabilization of the Bank -his would require a cooperative agreement and concurrence of a! roperty owners together with the City and to date concurrence has :. : been obtained in part, as noted in Mr. Schoops 5/13/88 letter. They still desire to c).ose off the road. The City would not be able to undertake this on its own without the concurrence of all the property owners affected and it then becomes an issue of how the City is to pay for the costs which are estimated at a total of $10,OQ0 to $20,000 as the areas that are just threatening would not be repaired. To the extent that the directly affected property owners from 3205 to 3255 do not desire to concur with the special assessment they could contest it and not grant easements. The City would be faced with a substantial cost for restoration of both public and not have authority to do the private work. 2. Moving the road. This has not been perceived as a viable opti n as it consumes substantial amounts of front yard of several of the affected property owners. 3. Dead -End. The issues related to this one are the ability to obtain the necessary easements and construction of the necessary private street and/or alley as mandated by the City of Orono ordinances. just maintaining an access on the back would probably violate the City's ordinances as it would be used to provide public s:,vices and other access to the property. Concurrence by Minnetonka 'jeach to allow a private road or street in Orono to access off of Minnetonka Beach street is felt to be needed. Finally the location c a cul-de-sac and the necessary front yard to be consumed by that cul- de-sac would have similar concerns as option 2. In addition, depending on where this is cul-de-saced, this solution may not solvF the stabilization problem. The cul-de-saced public street would exceed the City's standards for length and number of residences on a street that has a substandard width.