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<br />March, 2001
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<br />routes, County Road 32900 is a windmg narrow country lane designed to serve the fe\v local
<br />residences along that road. It, like Lake Crook Road, \vas never designed to carry high vehicle
<br />coun~s which \vould or could develop if the south shoreline is improved substantially. The
<br />consultant estimates nearly three quarters of a million dollars will be necessary just to widen the
<br />roadways and resurface them.
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<br />As mentioned earlier in this report, N\V 19th Street has been closed for over a decade now
<br />ostensibly to prevent any criminal element úom having a second escape route in the event they
<br />are approached by police patrols, NW 19th Street úom Loop 286/US 82 north\vard to the closure
<br />is nearly 7,600 feet in length and passes through a lo\v to moderate income neighborhood of low
<br />density population. If reopened it would provide limited access to the south shoreline.
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<br />The north shoreline is available OIùY on foot or horseback under most conditions and via all-
<br />terrain vehicle or four wheel drive vehicles under the best of conditions. The city property
<br />actually úonts 2000 feet on F.M. 1499, a recently rebuilt farm-to-market highway but it is about
<br />2,500 feet úom the fann-to-market to the closest shoreline, Other access is afforded only
<br />through locked gates via four \vheel drive vehicles from Caviness Road (C.R, 32500).
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<br />Caviness Road actually crosses the upper (\vest) end of the lake and limited, portable boat access
<br />to the \vater is afforded at either ofhVO small bridges. The Archers for Christ club and the Maxey
<br />Black Po\vder Rifle Club access their facilities inm1ediately off Caviness Road whereas the Paris
<br />Gun Club actually enters otfofF.M. 79.
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<br />2.1.3 Adjacent Land Uses. A significant portion of the south shoreline property o\vned by the
<br />city is itselfbordered by Campbell Soup company property used as a spray irrigation disposal field
<br />between NW 19th Street and Lake Crook Road. This spray disposal system creates a serious odor
<br />problem according to reports from
<br />the neighborhood, especially in the
<br />heat of the summer when the wind
<br />is ITom the south.
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<br />Other than immediately adjacent to
<br />NW 19th Street where sparsely
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<br />populated residential ~
<br />neighborhoods are built, land south -. "". :,' 1 :.')"': ' ."" ,'~",.. -: '
<br />of the lake is largely unusable ~'.":'c'" ,:" ,},~~ il~t.4;"""~"':" . ~- "
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<br />The gun and archery clubs occupy.' ~fì'~~~i'!l~j-'¿»f:\;~',:~:;~%{~ì8::{'f'~:f~
<br />about the only 'develop-able' land ~~.-:~~..........~c-f".:_'" ."-~' . . ".""'. """"'-~ !'... . .-' .' - !":~~'~~~
<br />th t d f th I k Figure 5 Northwest comer city property at Cavmess Road
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<br />along Caviness Road. Proceeding
<br />north of these clubs on Caviness one quickly runs into heavy wetlands on either side of the road
<br />all the way to the city's north boundary line where it crosses Caviness Road, There are no
<br />occupied dwellings anywhere along Caviness Road acrosS the city land.
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