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AGENDA ITEC 6B STAFF ORIGINATOR: Mary Kay Wyland DATE: December 12, 1996 TOPIC: Consideration of Amendment to Apollo Drive Access Agreement BACKGROUND: Twin City townhomes has submitted an application to the City to construct townhomes between 35W, Lea Court, and Apollo Drive. The developer initially proposed access for the development via Lea Court since there is an existing Agreement between Anoka County and the City that prohibits an additional access to Apollo Drive. The developer prefers to have access from Apollo Drive and subsequently approached Anoka County to have the Agreement revised to allow one additional access from Apollo Drive for the development. The County agreed to revise the Access Agreement. The section proposed to be changed currently reads as follows The City shall limit access to the proposed Apollo Drive by limiting to four (4) the accesses to Apollo Drive to the south between Sunset Road and Jon Avenue, and limiting to four (4) the number of accesses plus one (1) roadway to Apollo Drive to the north between Sunset Road and Jon Avenue. This section is proposed to read as follows: The City shall limit access to the proposed Apollo Drive by limiting to five (5) the roadway accesses to Apollo Drive to the south between Sunset Road and Jon Avenue, and limiting to five (5) the number of driveway accesses to Apollo Drive to the north between Sunset Road and Jon Avenue. The proposed amendment adds one additional roadway access to Apollo Drive to the south and changes one roadway access to Apollo Drive to the north to a driveway access. The change to the access to Apollo, Drive to the north does not negatively impact the property owners' ability to have access to Apollo Drive and develop their property. The roadway access to Apollo Drive to the north is not needed to provide transportation service to the surrounding neighborhood. The additional roadway access to the development from Apollo Drive benefits the City and property owners on Lea Court by allowing a majority of the traffic from the townhome proposal to not access Lea Court. OPTIONS: 1. Return to staff for further review. 2. Adopt motion authorizing Mayor and City Clerk to sign the amendment to the Joint Powers Agreement for Construction of Apollo Drive. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends option 2.