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Orono, MN 55356 Crystal Bay, MN 55323.0066
18 February 2009
Doug Winters
680 Orchard Park Road
Long Lake, MN 55356
RE: Secondary Driveway Access
Thank you for contacting the City. This letter is in response to your recent request for a second
driveway access or curb cut for your property at 680 Orchard Park Road. A permit is required
for driveway construction. City Code 18-136(a) limits residential properties to one curb cut. A
request to move your existing driveway curb cut also requires a permit, and the existing curb cut
must be abandoned and restored.
I have attached City Code Section 18-136 for your reference. Please contact me at
mcurtis@ci.orono.mn.us or 952.249.4627 if you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
CITY OF ORONO
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Melanie Curtis
Planning and Zoning Coordinator
c: Don DeBaere, Orono Public Works Street Superintendent
encl City Code 18-136
Permit Application
Telephone(952)249-4600 • Fax(952)249-4616
www.ci.orono.mn.us
680 Orchard Park Road
18 February 2010
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Sec. 18-136. Residential driveways, approaches and turnaround.
(a) One driveway approach shall be allowed from up to two single residential parcels
of land to the same road, provided that appropriate easements exist between parties sharing the
driveway and driveway approach. Parcels having frontage on more than one public road shall be
allowed a driveway approach to one public road.
(b) Residential driveway approach shall not exceed 20 feet in width at the intersected
right-of-way line.
(c) The total width of driveway approaches to up to two single parcels of land from a
single road shall not exceed 20 feet.
(d) A curb cut shall not exceed the width of the driveway approach at the property
line by more than ten feet.
(e) No portion of a driveway approach, except the curb return, shall be constructed
within 100 feet of a corner.
(f) For residences constructed after July 25, 1986, the driveway approach and that
part of the driveway and turnarounds which drain to the road shall be paved with bituminous
concrete blacktop or equivalent paving. Where it has been determined by the city's public service
director that driveway and/or driveway approach existing on July 25, 1986, is causing a
maintenance problem on the road, including but not limited to the washing of dirt and gravel into
the road,the public services director shall order that the property owner pave such portion of the
driveway and/or driveway approach as is necessary to remove the maintenance problem.
Portland cement concrete will only be allowed from the driveway up to the public right-of-way.
This requirement shall not be construed to reduce paving otherwise required by performance
standards in chapter 78 or required as a condition to the granting of a conditional use permit, lot
division, subdivision or as designated in the approved site plan.
(g) Driveway turnarounds shall be required on all driveways or driveway approaches
entering onto a state highway, county road or collector roadway as determined in the
comprehensive plan, and on all entrances to public roads within the city where deemed necessary
by the public services director, based on traffic counts, sight distances, street grades and other
relevant factors. If a driveway turnaround is required by the public services director, such
requirement shall be stated on any permit issued by him pursuant to this article.
(Code 1984, §§ 6.05(9), 6.06(9))