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• • SSR & W Minor Subdivision page 3 City cannot limit the use of an easement owned by the City to specific persons and exclude others. If the City were to allow certain persons to use the easement, we would have to open it to the public. This eliminates the partial easement option as proposed. There are public safety issues to consider. The contemplated easement would not be improved. The easement would pass in front of only a few houses, would lead to nothing but a remote, isolated area, and would be difficult for emergency vehicles to access, including police patrols. The issue of road requirements and future development has been an important issue throughout the process of preparing the new subdivision ordinance. As directed by the City Council at the first reading of the ordinance on January 27, the road frontage requirement was amended to require that the frontage be on an "improved" public road. The original proposal submitted by SSR & W was to dedicate additional right of way for Dupont Ave. along the southern edge of the property to provide road frontage rather than along the eastern edge. Dupont Ave. is a half right of way easement. An electric power transmission line easement follows the Dupont Ave. alignment. It would be very difficult to convert this location to a road. Therefore, it would not be in the public interest to accept the additional Dupont right of way. Transportation: Main St. Connection and Access Management Recommendations for Planning District 3 from the 2001 Comprehensive Plan include investigating the possibility of an easterly connection to Main St.. The Transportation Plan recommends this connection in the vicinity of the eastern end of Oak Lane and West Rondeau Lake Rd. An access management study was prepared for Main St. by Anoka County and participating cities including Lino Lakes. The study, completed in 1999, recommends a full access intersection at West Rondeau Lake Rd. Because W. Rondeau Lake Rd. already exists, this is a logical location. A road connecting West Rondeau to Oak Lane would fulfill these needs and should be acquired when property on the south side of Main St. develops in the future. It is standard procedure to acquire right of way as part of a development/platting process. It is important to protect the long -range plan by ensuring the ability to serve future development with appropriate road access and circulation as well as utilities. Allowing a lot to be created in the proposed location would create an obstacle to the implementation of the City's transportation plan and the growth staging policies in the comprehensive plan. Adjacent Property Access • Until recently, the property at 1196 Main St. accessed Main St. via a driveway in the one - acre, "flagpole" piece. The current residents there have explained to staff that it was their