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HAMMITT Bob From: ETTER John F To: HAMMITT Bob Cc: WEBER John J; MEDLIN Johnny R Subject: FW: Discussion of street system at Coburg- County Farm area Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 8:36AM Priority: High In light of the recent letter from Alan Richards concerning the softball complex, I thought you should see where the collective thinking is. I believe I shared most of this in the hall with you a month ago. The only people not represented in the group listed below are from Stormwater and City Planning. In a meeting prior to the one Dave mentions, several of us did meet with Stormwater folks and were giving encouragement for a storm drain system in the are that would not impact the park, school and EWEB sites. If they can settle on a solution that creates no surface impact to the site, there should be agreement on a plan. Annexation would be needed to provide the services that the restroom/ concessionaire/ maintenance /score keepers building would need; also, a conditional use permit would be needed. - -John From: REINHARD Dave N To: OBERLE Mark (EWEB) Cc: ETTER John F; NORDGAARD Charles V; FERGUSON Joe M; McNEEL Gary A; LUDEKE Gary L; LOWE Allen D; JENNINGS Rodney D Subject: FW: Discussion of street system at Coburg- County Farm area Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 3:36PM Priority: High Mark: I got your voice mail message asking for direction on access and related issues for the area that includes the EWEB substation parcel, east of Coburg Road and north of Kinney Loop. In late November, city staff listed above got together to discuss access, drainage, potential street layout, etc. for this entire area. The following represents a summary of the discussion and the main conclusions we came to at that meeting. After going over this, I suggest you phone or e-mail back to me, Joe or Rodney, if you would like to meet to go over this with the help of some maps and aerial photos. Thanks. - -Dave R. Conclusions from 11/26/97 meeting: 1. The 4J, EWEB and potential Park /Ballfield properties will all need access to Coburg Rd. The Wildish parcel along most of the Coburg Rd. frontage will eventually need access but we expect it to remain vacant longer than the other pieces. 2. We would like to see a future street system that would connect Coburg Rd. with Crescent Meadows and /or Game Farm Rd., but realize we may have to settle for street extensions /access into this large area rather than a street going all the way across it, depending on how the properties develop. We do not want a "straight shot" from Coburg to Game Farm, however, since this would encourage cut - through traffic between those two arterials. 3. In view of the interrelationships among the EWEB parcel, existing 4J parcel and potential western portion of 4J that may become a ballfield complex, and based on constraints including the powerline easement and drainage needs along the north boundary of the area, we think the best way to proceed is as follows: - -Short range: have "whoever goes first" provide a shared access way to Coburg Rd. at the northwest corner of the area. This would need to provide access for EWEB, 4J and the potential city ballfield parcel. We would want to see this designed and improved either as a public street with a 60' RW, or an easement or other arrangement for joint access, keeping the future options open for a public street. The configuration of the EWEB parcel might need to be altered (land swap, or sell some of it to adjacent owner if not all needed ?), in order to provide an acceptable alignment and width for this access way. - -Long range: depending on development of the remaining 4J property, we would expect the short -range street or driveway to either be terminated on that property (e.g. if developed as a school), or extended south and west as a public street (if developed residentially, or if the school wanted to have a street running through the parcel for improved access and connectivity). Page 1