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• #07-3250 <br /> January 11,2007 <br /> '"' Page 9 of 12 <br /> Transportation Issues,Vehicular Access � <br /> Ti�affic Genei�crtion. The City's traffic consultant reviewed the prior nledical office proposal for a <br /> 23,000 s.f. office buildiiig and 70 tuzit Orono Woods senior hotising building in November of <br /> 2000. Based on standardized trip generation rates, a 70 wiit building was expected to generate <br /> 120 trips in and 120 trips out per day on weekdays, less on weekends, where the medical office <br /> use as approved was expected to generate 130-in/130-out weekdays and significantly less on <br /> weekends. Total trip generation would then have been 250-ii�/250-out on weekdays. <br /> The current proposal does not specifically contemplate medical office use, and it does not <br /> contemplate any retail use. Staff believes the proposed general office use will not significantly <br /> differ in traffic generation from the earlier approved uses, and may generate less iraffic. <br /> Exterior Site Access. Access to the site was originally established dt�ring the approval process <br /> for PUD No. 2, and consists of a shared right-in/right-out driveway access directly to Highway <br /> 12 at the southwest corner of the Senior Housing property, and a shared driveway access <br /> eastward through the Seiuor Housing site to Brown Road North. Futi.�re access potential to the <br /> west exists at the northwest corner of the site where it abuts Outlot D, Sugarwoods. Outlot D <br /> was platted as a potential service road corridor behiiid the Orono Shopping Center and Service <br /> 800 buildings, with possible connectioizs southward to 12Brimhall, or west through the Otten <br /> Brothers property to Willow Drive. At this time the City has no plans to develop Outlot D for <br /> this use, but it remains available for future use. The applicants are proposing no connection to <br /> Outlot D, but have designed the parking lot so that such a connection would be reasonably <br /> feasible in fihe fut�ire. Applicants have asked that cross-easements for ptiblic ingress/egress over <br /> the property and the Senior housing site be established, as the current easements may be only for <br /> private use. The City Attorney will review this. <br /> U.S. Highway 12 is in the process of being relocated to the south, and existing Highway 12 will <br /> ' eventually be "turned back"to Hennepin County. As part of the Highway 12 relocation project, <br /> Brown Road south of 12 was realigned to be directly across froin Brown north of 12, creating a <br /> signalized cross intersection and making access to and from the Senior Housing site inuch less <br /> difficult. <br /> The Cities of Long Lake and Orono have been ineeting for more than two years on a regular <br /> basis in prepaxation for tlie"ttunback" of Higliway 12 to the Counfy. .An important aspect of this <br /> �process is defining how existing Highway 12 will function once the bypass is opened. Please <br /> read Ron Moorse's letter to the applicant dated May 26, 2005 which discusses the issue of <br /> providing access for the property to Highway 12 tluough the `welding shop' site to the <br /> inunediate southwest, as a superior alternative to the accesses through the Senior Housing <br /> property. A full-turning-movement access directly across 12 froin Sliaugluiessy Avenue is <br /> contemplated as oiie of two potential such intersections on 12 between Brown and Willow. This <br /> would provide a much inore direct access to applicants' site, especially for eastbound tr�c <br /> desiring to enter filie site, wluch could avoid liavuig to go all the.way to Brown, do a U-turn or <br /> drive tl�rough the Senior Housing driveway system. � <br />