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Cil TO: Mayor Hurler "(�.�'�•°� ',"---''.IP�4� Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator Orono Council Members /��G 1117. v FROM: Jeanne A. Mabusth, Zoning Administrator .., �.;... �,.. DATE: August 8, 1986 " SUBS: #1026 M. Hilbeilink/J. Vogt/Mrs. H. Peterman, 160 Old Crystal Bay Road - Preliminary Subdivision ISSUE Resolve of Future Access List of Exhibits A - Engineer's preliminary report B - Engineer's sketch C - Aerial view locating trees and other amenities (designaitions were confiermed by field inspectors made of the entire area) As requested at your last meeting, theCity Engineer has prepared a preliminary report reviewing the two designated access points on Watertown. Field Crews will shoot the elevations of both access sites prior to your meeting to confirm that each would satisfy sighting distance for a 40 MPH road. Based on site inspections of the area, Cook prefers the western access (access I) because sighting `ear between Willow and Old Crystal Bay intersections at this point. John Shardlow, the city's consultant planner, is preparing alternative plans for total development of the surrounding area based on USGS contour maps and soils maps of the subject area. The planner will attempt to compare the propo. ed through road layouts to assure that maximum property access is feasible with designated roadways and to mininize private driveway curb cuts. Shardlow's report and layouts will be available at your meeting. Kathleen Blatz has called attention to the creation of the flag lot (lot 2). The city must address not only the need for a variance to standard that all lots must abutt a public street but that lot cannot satisfy lot standard for required width. Lot 2 is not 200 feet wide at the rear of the required front yard (50 feet from right of way of Old Crystal Bay Rd). Staff has advised Blatz that in the early eighties, mortgage companies were refusing land owners because \pxoperty did not have direct access to a public road. In response, the c4ty developed the platted corridor approach. It is true this technique has been used in single lot splits, lot line rearrangments or as in the Trapp plat on West Branch Road to assure a future private road corridor to serve the larger lot to south. It has never been used to serve as access for one lot in 3 + lot subdivisions where alternate access is also available. Council is very consistent in requiring all access via a shared road with no direct access for any lot onto a public road. The creation of lot 2 in this plat would appear to be a convenience for applicant. If approved Council must f '.nd unique findings to differ from policy of limiting curb cuts with subdivisions of 3 + lots.