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I live in the neighborhood between the Rum River Golf Course and is connected to the Silver Oaks neighborhood. I have <br />a concern about the access to Hwy. 47 for the property (16261 St. Francis Blvd) located between the Centex <br />Homes/Silver Oaks area and Morton's Nursery on Hwy 47. There hasn't been an issue over the years with the driveway <br />to the house there because there was not much activity at that house, but now someone seems to be living there on <br />and off. A few years ago the siding was replaced. <br />Driving north from the Silver Oaks addition on Hwy. 47, you don't know there is a driveway there until you finish the <br />turn on the curve and it's right there, so it's a hidden driveway from the south, especially going 45 - 55 miles per hour. <br />There are many times where the traffic driving south there creeps across the center fine starting at that driveway to go <br />around the curve. This is a dangerous situation for drivers going north with the blind driveway at the end of the curve in <br />the summer and more so in the winter with slippery roads. That driveway has still not been "plowed out" very well, so <br />to get traction and go south from there is very dangerous in the winter because of the curve and from I can observe <br />would also be tough to go south from that driveway in the summer, since that driveway is hidden. <br />This winter someone has been living there. I have observed the following: <br />A car "stuck" at the end of the driveway trying to get on Hwy. 47 right after a snowstorm. I was driving north <br />and the car surprised me at the end of the driveway that I think was trying to get onto Hwy. 47. <br />A car facing west flipped upside down on that driveway or close to it (in November before there was much <br />snow). <br />A car in the ditch (which is very narrow) near that driveway. <br />Is it possible to get the driveway to this house closed to Hwy. 47 and a new access created to connect to the Silver Oaks <br />neighborhood? That's what happened with the red/now green house across from the Boy Scout camp several years <br />ago. Their access to Hwy. 47 was removed and they drive to their house by going into the Orrin Thompson <br />development to get to that house now. <br />I have talked with my neighbors about this driveway and one said she was driving north there with a car in the ditch near <br />that driveway on the east side, plus a car driving south was crossing the centerline. If the driveway is moved, can some <br />of the landscaping be changed/removed on that curve to create a true ditch to allow room for ashoulder/lane on the <br />east side of Hwy. 47, especially with the tendency for southbound drivers to cross the centerline? <br />I hope the Silver Oaks neighborhood's future cul-de-sac/road to the north allows for someday connecting that house <br />and maybe the Mortons Nursery property, so both accesses to Hwy. 47 are removed. <br />Mary Neumann <br />612-532-6357 <br />