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. I Elk River - Otsego -Ramsey · .ElkRhjer,MN-S5330.VoL118t No. -18 -50e .~: .~ Ii 21. Elk River Star News / Wednesday, May 5, 1993 tfJeighbors will be able to keep th~ir cul-de-sac I Elk River City Beat Council member John Dietz convened a Riverview Drive block party, as he found himself confronting his neighbors April . 19. His neighbors were there to protest the possible loss of cul- de-sac provided in a preliminary plat from developer Irv Moldenhauer. Dietz, who is the vice mayor,. was sitting in for Mayor Hank Duitsman who was. on a busi- nesstrip. The plat which drew his neigh- bors there had a proposed stretch of Riverview Drive connecting with the existing drive and elimi- nating a cul-de-sac. Actually the dead end really isn't a cul-de-sac. It's a piece of property deeded to the city where Riverview Drive ends. . The neighbors. had already .' pealed their case to the Plan- . ngCommission which had rec- , ommended removal of the cul- dEi-sac. The neighbors talked about more traffic th~t ~ould be gen- ,:...:--- - era ted, the need to protect the 14 youngsters on the block and the need for the privacy they have with a dead-end street. The Planning Commission and the city's engineer had argued I that connecting the road would provide better traffic flow. Dietz agreed that it wouldn't be fair to take away something the neighbors had for over 20 years and the rest of the council . agreed with him. But he also had to settle what to do about a cul-de-sac that really isn't one. Who will pay the bill to up- grade the corner to a cul-de-sac? The city will have to, said City Administrator Pat Klaers; Dietz warned his neighbors that the decision is not at all related to sewer and water com- ing to the neighborhood some day.