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_3_ ' int. areas that are serviced with a dead-end road, or road over 600' long ending with a cul de sac. How far should this equipment be driven ' in, before it can be brought back out again? Carl Dale said he agreed with Schwab 's basic position that the 600 foot rule was developed for urban type situations.. He said that in a rural situation, a strict interpretation was not fair. He said he felt Schwab 's approach in recognizing that it might be an acceptable short- term position to have a road over 600' long as long as someday there will be another way to get access to these homes. It is difficult to make a hard and fast rule unless it is the policy of the community to discourage development as some communities are actually trying to do. We should be reasonable and there should be some flexibility, he said. Spitzer asked if it would be reasonable that in a rural ere., that we could define an acceptable cul de sac in terms of the number of home- sites ome- sites to be served by i t. Carl Dale answered yea. Charlie Johnson said that there is a provision in the ordinance for longer cul de sacs if they are temporary in nature..:. _ The ordinance Comm- ittee is at the present time looking at the whold subdivision ordinance , he said. One way, from a legal standpoint , he further stated, would be to generate an overall road plan. If someone comes in with a 40 or a 80 and wants to run a road from here to there; if there is an overall road plan, it is much easier to make meaningful decisions , he said. Charlie Johnson said the road plan is something that would have to be worked on, then hearings held and then it would be adopted. He said long roads ending in cul de sans should be of a -telstively temporary nature, and temporary can be just what the council defines as temporary. He said we should also be concerned with how the proposed osed development p p p might affect the adjacent land owners.