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2) 3) specific future rehabilitation projects and bring back recommendations that would try to accomplish the goal of traffic calming. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, and Councilmembers Zimmerman, Kurak, Anderson, and Hendriksen. Voting No: None. Consider Developers Request for Elimination of Emergency Access Gate for River Pines 4"' Addition The Public Works Committee recommended that the requirement to install the emergency access gate for River Pines 4th Addition be eliminated as a condition for the subdivision. Motion by Councilmember Kurak, seconded by Councilmember Anderson, to ratify the recolmnendation of the Public Works Committee. Further discussion: Councilmember Hendriksen stated that there was a great deal of opposition to the development because it would create 1,500 additional trips per day and the adjoining neighborhood objected to that traffic going through their neighborhood to access C.R. #5. The Council at that time chose to mitigate that traffic impact by installing the emergency access gate. Now after some number of years, that protection is going to be denied. He stated that it would have been easy to reposition a lot and create a park instead of the emergency access gate, but that was voted down. The neighbors to the west that fought for the protection will ultimately receive nothing. Councilmember Zimmerman stated that it was bad business to go back on the City's word. He stated that residents will question why they should come before the Council if the Council is going to do what they want to do. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, and Councilmembers Kurak, and Anderson. Voting No: Councilmembers Hendriksen and Zimmerman. Consider Interim Private Street Policy The Public Works Committee recommended that the City Council adopt the interim private street policy to be used as a general guideline during the rewrite of Chapter 9. City Engineer Olson stated that since the Public Works meeting, the policy had been used in the development of site plans for the Evergreen Point Townhomes, Birch Hill Lodges, The Ponds, Eighty Seven LLC, and ACCAP. The policy has largely been successful except for length criteria. Staff recommended the maximum length of a private street with a cul-de-sac be changed from 300 feet to 600 feet (the same length as a public cul- de-sac). Councilmember Kurak stated that she could agree with needing a longer private street in certain circumstances, and she does not have a problem with what staff presented since the longer drive had another way out of the development, but she did have concerns with allowing 600 feet to a dead end. City Council/March 12, 2002 Page 18 of 23