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MEMORANDUM TO: Lori Johnson, City Administrator ~/yy~ FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director ~I `~ ~ DATE: April 16, 2008 SUBJECT: Auburn Place Petition As requested, I have reviewed the petition received from 701 - 726 Aubum Place requesting that the City of Elk River assume responsibility fox the asphalt street. This area was originally platted in the early 1980's as part of the Barrington Place Addition. The area in question was originally Block 5 of Barrington Place (copy of the original plat is attached). As you can see from the original Barrington Place plat, the public street dedication fox Auburn Place ends at the cul-de-sac before Lot 5. The original concept was to construct atow-style townhome in 3 and 4-unit buildings. Over the years, this area has been xeplatted twice; first, as the Barrington Place Replat No. 5 (a copy is attached) which modified the original multi- family concept to create some attached townhome lots. Then in the early 1990's, the northern half of the Barrington Place Replat No. 5 was again xeplatted as Bruce Addition (a copy is attached). These two xeplats ultimately created the 20 townhome units (10 double unit buildings). Also attached is a 2006 aerial photograph of the area from the Sherburne County website. As you can see from the two xeplats and the aerial photography, there is no public right-of--way in this area and very minimal space between the building sites. There is nothing in the area that would define the blacktop surfaces as streets and no defining curb lines. They are essentially private drives with personal driveways to each unit's garage stall. I have also made an inspection of the area. It has been recently sealed with an oil material, but a closer inspection of the bituminous surface shows that it is heavily cracked. We have no records on file with the city as to the strength ox material used in the street section. There would be no way fox us to plow this area without pushing snow into each of the individual private driveways. In fact, to plow this area would require a pickup truck with a plow, as a large tandem truck would not have sufficient room to maneuver. As you are aware, we have had a few of these types of requests from multi-family residential areas over the years. Other areas I recall that have asked the city to take over maintenance