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Agenda Section: 9.5 OIC s REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Report Number: 91-129C STAFF REPORT Report Date: 12-19-91 ICES Council Action: ❑ Special Order of Business CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE December 23 , 1991 ❑ public Hearings ❑ Consent Agenda XI Council Business Item Description: Request for the City to accept Lake Court Drive and Lake Court Circle as Public Streets Administrator's Review/Recommendation: - No comments to supplement this report - Comments attached. Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) SUMMARY: The extreme amount of snow this year created unsafe conditions on Lake Court Drive and Lake Court Circle within the Silver Lake Woods Townhome development. After discussing the situation with the home-owners association, we reviewed the development files to determine if there were any plat restrictions or covenants re- garding the issue of maintenance of the many driveways. In re- viewing the plat, we discovered that the 2 roadways (Lake Court Drive and Circle) were platted as an outlot and that these roads had not been dedicated as City streets. We contacted the fee owner listed in the tax records to determine their concerns. The tax records showed Kraus-Anderson as the fee owner; subsequently we found that the outlot had been transferred to Mary Anderson homes. The developer (Mary Anderson Homes) indicated they were of the understanding that the City had pre- viously agreed to provide City services on the streets in ques- tion. Attached is a letter from Marlin Grant of Mary Anderson Homes and a letter from the Silver Lake Woods Home-owners Asso- ciation explaining the situation and requesting that the City accept these streets as Public Roads. Staff has concerns with the current situation of providing snow ---plowing—and—maintenance services on a private road. The concerns are liability of our actions in performing services outside of City property and the precedent which may e se providing -- services on a private road. The possibility of other developments with private roads (such as Scotland Green or the mobile home parks) wanting services to be performed by the City is a very real . There have been requests in the past for us to provide services to these areas. Staff has discussed the situation and the request from Mary - — AndersonHomesand the Silver_ Lake Woods Home-owners- Association. - There appears to be 3 basic options for the City. The Council could accept the roads as requested, the Council could deny the (continued) RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the Mayor to enter into an agreement to provide snowplowing and minor street maintenance services as outlined above.