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• ID • Fox Den Acres, page 4 Streets, Access, Parking: The rights of way for the internal streets is 50 feet. This is less than the normal 60 feet. The pavement width also is reduced. These are two more ways of increasing the open space in the project: narrowing the rights of way allows for more open space behind the lots. The narrower pavement reduces impervious surface. The PUD standards specifically allow the pavement to be reduced in this way. Two changes are needed to the pavement widths shown on plans. First, the existing stub of Fox Road just east of Deerwood Lane is 32' back of curb to back of curb. This width must be maintained until the intersection with the internal circular street (Red Fox Road). Second, the new streets are currently shown as 28' from back of curb to back of curb (rather than the normal 32'). The pavement should be 28' face of curb to face of curb. This will allow 20' for fire truck passage with parking on one side. This can be accommodated within the 50' right of way. The comprehensive plan for the community includes this as an area to be developed. One road is stubbed to it in a previous development project, as are water and sewer. In the past, many neighborhoods were created with only one access, but now we want to provide more than one . Therefore, we must look for another access option if the comprehensive plan is to be implemented here. The 500' radio tower on the north is likely to stay. The proposed road stub to the north of the plat avoids the tower property. Land to the north of the stub does have on it several communication facilities such as satellite dishes and the like, but it would not require major physical effort to remove the existing facilities. It is possible that a road could extend to the north where pictured if these facilities were removed in the future. That area includes upland, though it is impossible to know how much without a delineation of that property. A "ghost plat" of the area shows it will be possible to fit in a road and some lots. (see attached) Fox Road is the only current access point for this site. An extension of Fox Rd. to a future outlet /connection to the north is included in the design. Wetland extends to the east and south of the project for more than 1000', so a road cannot go in those directions. There is no possible additional connection on the west because the existing homes of Reshanau Lake Estates South 4th Addn. Hindsight shows that Deerwood Lane should have been designed to provide a connection to the east at its southern end instead of curving west into a cul de sac. This is no longer an option, however. We will prohibit parking on the stretch of Fox Road between the existing Deerwood Lane and the new internal circular street in the plat (Red Fox Road). This will allow for clearer passage between the intersections. In the future, when land to the north develops, this new road can be connected. This would provide not only a second access for this site, but an additional access alternative for the neighborhoods that exist now.