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Item No. 2 <br />MEMORANDUM Council Work Session 4/25/16 <br />To: Mayor & Council <br />Jessica Loftus, City Administrator <br />Coffey Farniok, Police chief <br />Adam Edwards, City Engineer/Public Works Director <br />From: Mike Gaffron, Senior Planner <br />Date: April 21, 2016 <br />Subject: Union Cemetery (1400 Wayzata Boulevard): Cemetery Road— Status & Options <br />Attachments: <br />A — Email from Liz Olson 3/11/16 <br />B — Information Request from Debbie Lewis 3/11/16 <br />C — Email from Brennan Greene (Owner of Birch's) 4/8/16 <br />D — Hennepin County Plat Maps — 1962 and Current <br />E — July 1953 Letter to W. L. Hursh from Town of Orono Attorney John S. Pillsbury <br />F — Writ of Ouster 5/31/56 <br />G — Orono Village Council Minutes - August 23, 1965 <br />H — City of Orono Resolution #875 re Weight Limits — February 1978 <br />I — Plat of Union Cemetery (1899) <br />J — Plat of Wolf Pointe Woods (2000) <br />K — Permanent Park & Trail Easement over Outlots C & D, Wolfe Pointe Woods <br />L — County Auditor's Abbreviated Legal Description of Cemetery Parcel <br />M — Summary of Ownership History <br />Cemetery Road is a loop of public road roughly parallel with Wayzata Boulevard and providing <br />vehicle access to the Union Cemetery, just west of Birch's. <br />The City has received a request from the Union Cemetery Association, represented by Liz Olson, <br />to assist in managing parking on the road by employees of Birch's. Specifically, the request is <br />that Orono place and enforce `No Parking' signs along the north and south sides of the road. See <br />Exhibit A. <br />Additionally the city has received an email letter from Brennan Greene, the owner of Birch's, <br />discussing the history of the parking issue and how they have been addressing it. See Exhibit B. <br />The request is accompanied by a query as to what rights the Cemetery Association may have <br />over the road, and who owns the road. Hennepin County maps have long indicated the road <br />(formerly known as the Minneapolis and Watertown Road, the Watertown to Wayzata Road, or <br />simply the Watertown Road) is the boundary between the cities of Long Lake and Orono. In an <br />attempt to determine ownership of the road, we obtained County documents relating to the <br />history of transfers of ownership of the cemetery property and the property to the immediate <br />south (now Outlot D of Wolf Pointe Woods), with the intent to review legal descriptions (see <br />Exhibit M). In addition we reviewed documents provided by the Cemetery Association and <br />searched Orono City Council minutes. <br />Page I of 4 <br />