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CITY OF ORONO PLANNING ZOMMISSION MEETING - PUBLIC HEARING HIGHWAY 12 CORRIDOR STUDY/COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT e) Housing - provide an opportunity for greater alternatives to single family housing, and provide the City with the opportunity to work towards its low and moderate goal. f) Metropolitan urban Service Line - Housing needs to be extended to allow for the proposed development. Mr. Shardlow explained the conceptual transportation system improvements. Four alternatives have been prepared for the area between Old Crystal Bay Road and Willow Drive to the north. Remote frontage roads may be preferable to the traditional frontage road because of traffic movements at key intersections, it would be appropriate to bring the drive- way curb cuts at least 300' from Highway 12. Area 2, to the south, presents more constraints in that it is considerably more developed. Two alternatives have been looked at for this area: 1. Consolidate the access into a frontage road, working with the City of Long Lake to make a single access. 2. Remote or alternative access road, running along the back of the properties, connecting up with Daniels Street in Long Lake. This is presently preferred by both Long Lake and the land owners. In the Area 1 to the west of Old Crystal Bay Road, a loop road system has been suggested to provide acre.,_ to that area tying in with Old Crystal Bay Road some 300' south of Highway 1' (minimum) and if there was a remote system, tying in with that point. In Areas 4 and 5 To the ecst. of Willow Drive is a very narrow condition between the existing Dickey Lake Road and Highway 12, with concern about access to Highway 12 being primary. Considerable concern has been raised about the existing Brown Road North and Highway 12 intersection. A number of alternatives have been suggested. It was mentioned the desirability of moving traffic from Brown Road North to Wil low Drive and west without having to go onto Highway 12. The perferred alternative is to have a remote frontage road with a connection out at Brimhall Avenue, Long Lake. The exact location and width of that facility will have to be carefully intergraded into the plans for this area. Mr. Shardlow explained the land use recommendation calls for some commercial from the proposed frontage road to Highway 12, then sodium density residential between the frontage roadway and the area of Dickey Lake Road. The four alternatives which have been suggested for the main study area (03) between willow Drive and Old Crystal Bay Road are as follows,