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ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR DECEMBER 13, 1999 06) #2522 BANCOR GROUP, INC - Continued Flint asked if the cul -de -sac could be farther down the road. He said the road opposite Shadowood is a problem. Moorse said he doesn't know if a cul -de -sac will be necessary, because if there is a problem with the traffic being able to get out of there during busy times, the residents will start going out the south exit instead. Kathy Johnston, 2335 Shadowood Drive, said she is concerned about the safety of her children standing at that intersection waiting for the bus. She fears that the bus will only stop on one side or the other and her children will be forced to cross the road. Gerry Pettis said he lives on Dickey Lake Drive and Ringers Wood. He is very concerned about the traffic on Willow. He asked if the Council is going to keep to the two -acre lot size. Jabbour said this property is zoned for two -acre lots. He explained that the land can be developed with a two -acre minimum lot size or it can be developed as a PRD. He explained that the developer gets credit for all the area in the conservation outlot and the street. With a PRD, the City can negotiate the terms of the development. This a 58 -acre parcel and there will be 25 lots. Sansevere said he is concerned that the lots adjacent to Willow and 6 are small because they • are the most visible lots. Campion said the lots on the interior of the loop could be made two -acres by sacrificing some of the area in Outlot A. Lot 1 south of the southerly entrance is over two acres. He said that inside the loop, they weighed whether to create more outlot conservation area or increase the lot sizes. On Lot 15, in order to avoid an oddly configured lot that was one and a half times wider than it was deep, they chose a configuration that was nearly square. He said they could shift the size of the lots, but he isn't sure what would be gained. Sansevere said it seems to him that aesthetically it would be closer to the two -acres that people seem to want in that area. Campion said that on paper they would be getting closer to the two acres. Aesthetically, if they are standing out in the street looking at it, with the open space, they won't see the difference. Sansevere asked what type of houses they plan to build. Newman said they haven't designed homes for the individual lots. They will be upgrade homes and more and more upgrade homes are ramblers, but he would expect that some will be two - story homes. They were constrained in the layout of the lots because they were trying to work around the wetlands. Page 18