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<br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: Sheila Cartney, Senior Planner <br /> <br />Terry Maurer, City Engineer ~ <br />DATE: January 23, 2007 <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Cranberry Ridge Addition <br />Utility and Public Road Easement <br />File # 226-144P <br /> <br />Last week I had an opportunity to meet with John Mentor, Sherburne County Public Works <br />Director, and Rhonda Lewis, Sherburne County Engineer, in a follow-up discussion <br />regarding the 66" foot wide utility and public road easement across the center of Cranberry <br />Ridge Addition. As you are aware, this public utility and road easement comes in from the <br />west near the 90-degree turn in CSAH 33, down to the southeast comer of Cranberry Ridge <br />Addition, then northerly adjacent to the west property line of Cranberry Ridge Addition to <br />approximately the center of the plat and then easterly across the entire property of Cranberry <br />Ridge. The developers have indicated the desire to have this road easement vacated. <br /> <br />As you are also aware, Sherburne County has several concepts of how CSAH 33 might <br />eventually transition down to County Road 22 in Anoka County. When I met with John and <br />Rhonda last week, they were considering an alternative plan. That would be to extend <br />CSAH 33 easterly across Sherburne County on a corridor approximately along the south end <br />of Cranberry Ridge, based on this existing utility and public road easement to their east <br />County line, then requiring Anoka County to find a route in Anoka County from this point <br />to County Road 22. John and Rhonda have viewed this corridor on aerial photography and <br />feel that it is open enough in both Sherburne County and Anoka County to be a viable <br />possibility for the ultimate east-west corridor leading to Highway 169. <br /> <br />Based on this discussion, I could only concur with the vacation of the portion of this utility <br />and public road easement within the plat of Cranberry Ridge Addition, if a condition of the <br />vacation were to re-establish a similarly sized utility and public road easement along the <br />south property line of Cranberry Ridge Addition. This would keep the Sherburne County <br />option viable until a future date when a firm alignment is determined. At that future date, if <br />the 66-foot utility and public road easement is not the chosen alternative, the easement could <br />be vacated. <br /> <br />Rhonda Lewis indicated at our meeting that she was going to relay this information to the <br />developers of Cranberry Ridge Addition. If you have any questions regarding this issue, <br />please contact me. <br />