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Lathrop: Allenbaugh: Mayer: part of an easement granted. Also, I have water and sewer to this land granted by the City. I, also, have this letter from John Franklin saying there is no problem. It's clear to me that the Heritage II Subdivision contemplated an easement for a driveway. It's clear to me that Sundance II PUD indicates an access for a driveway and I have no reason to believe that the unrecorded easement before me is not a genuine document. I have trouble with automobiles, UPS trucks, trash trucks, and normal traffic crossing a fairly heavily used bike path. Council could acquire the property as open space, deny the request based on potential safety hazards, or approve with the property owner agreeing to: one; use an alternate access if and when provided from the Waremberg property, two; agree to the property as a single family dwelling only, three; agree to separate the driveway and the bike pedestrian path off of Sycamore. Also, agree to widen the bridge. We have agreed with the Marshall to widen the bridge. Fire Former Councilwoman Morris stated that the original intention of Council then that the access easement was not to go over to Sycamore, but was going to go down to Buchannan or Hackberry. Ms. Morris's recollection was that it was Council's intent that Mr. Houseman work out with American Home Builders, who she thought was developing that property, to gain the easement. It was never the intention of the 1984 Council to have an easement through the publicly dedicated bike path. There is a lot of murkiness in all of this and I would have trouble recommending both a bike path and a driveway there. I did suggest 22