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ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR JUNE 14,1999 (#9) #2480 SPRING HILL GOLF CLUB, 725 SIXTH AVENUE NORTH -FINAL . PLAT APPROVAL Thomas Crosby was present. Gaffron said that Spring Hill Golf Club is requesting final plat approval. He said this plat was primarily for the purpose of creating easements over the wetlands and drainage ways of the property. It also resulted in the creation of two outlots. He said the outlots contain mostly wetland areas which have now been delineated and are shown on the plat. Regarding the trail issue, he asked for direction from the Council in reviewing the language of the preliminary plat resolution that has been revised. He asked the Council to review the wording of items 1, 2 and 8 on page 4 of 6. He noted that the final plat resolution states that all requirements of the trail agreement must be completed. Crosby said that the land south of the plat will be subjected to the conservation easement. He asked if Gaffron has seen the wetland delineation on that portion of the land. Gaffron said he has not seen it. Crosby said that the City will need the wetland delineation on the separation parcel to attach to the conservation easement. Gaffron said the City would need the description of it. Crosby said the trail has been constructed along Spring Hill. It goes across Co. Rd. 6 and then north on Tamarack where it has been constructed from the intersection to the maintenance shed. It then goes to wetland #12 and it has not been constructed north of the wetland where Spring Hill would give the City a ten -foot easement. Crosby said that he had hoped that for the portions of the trail that had been constructed and accepted, that the entire trail would have been delineated as a two -foot strip either side of the center line. He said he is concerned about the legal description of the trail because it says everything south of the northerly element of the shaded area is for use for a trail. He said that if the ten feet is not all being used, a number of years from now someone could try to move the trail. He said that when this project was started, they said they would create a trail mutually agreeable within the ten feet next to the right -of -way. He said the trail agreement is a separate document, not on the plat. The way the trail agreement has been drafted is that the legal description of the trail is an exhibit, so that the language of the trail agreement is really taking the agreement they used at the time of the conditional use permit, throwing out the portions that are no longer relevant and putting it into an easement. He said it is the legal essentials out of a broader, prior agreement. Barrett said that is the document Crosby provided. 0 Page 12