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Memo/Mayor & City Council/P 97-20 February 17, 1998 Page 2 existing home which is located in the central part of the development. The 71 acres is an assemblage of several property owners to create enough land area for the proposed preliminary plat. Roads The plat will be accessed off County Road No. 33 with a residential street that will bisect the property and extend to the south limits of the plat. Access to the property will also include improvements to County Road No. 33 by constructing a right turn lane for eastbound traffic. The County has also indicated that a westbound bypass lane will eventually be needed as additional traffic turns into this development off of County Road No. 33. The bypass lane is most likely to happen when the property south of this project is developed and the street is continued further. The County may require the developer to the south to improve the bypass lane since their project will generate the additional traffic to meet the warrants for the bypass lane. The location for the new road off of County Road No. 33 was selected at a point where the site lines both east and west along 33 could be maximized. Also, the road is near the top of the vertical curve which will further improve visibility for cars leaving the plat onto County Road No. 33. As previously mentioned, the property has a dramatic ridge which extends north and south through the middle of the plat. The proposed road basically climbs the ridge on the north side where the street grade will be somewhere between 7%-8% before reaching the top of the ridge and leveling off. Once the street reaches the top of the ridge, grading will have to occur to lower the top of the ridge approximately 8 feet. Road Extension Staff has requested that the road be extended to the south limits of the plat to allow it to be continued through the adjacent properties as it is developed. The property owner to the south has been contacted and has been working with staff and the developer to agree upon a proper alignment of the proposed road. Given the topography of both properties, it is critical to pinpoint the best location for the road to be extended to the south. After working with both property owners the location of the proposed road has been agreed upon. The one request that the property owner to the south has made is to have the road lowered about 4 feet to provide a better match with the proposed elevations of the road as it extends the road from the south. When the property to the south is developed, the roads will be connected and a long dead end of 2,200 feet will be eliminated. f:\shrdoc\council\p97-20.doc