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City of Paris Stud of Lake Crook March, 2001 routes. County Road 32900 is a winding narrow country lane designed to serve the few local residences along that road. It, like Lake Crook Road, was never designed to carry high vehicle counts which would or could develop if the south shoreline is improved substantially. The consultant estimates nearly three quarters of a million dollars will be necessary just to widen the roadways and resurface them. As mentioned earlier in this report, NW 19~' Street has been closed for over a decade now ostensibly to prevent any criminal element from having a second escape route in the event they are approached by police patrols. NW 19th Street from Loop 286/US 82 northward to the closure is nearly 7,600 feet in length and passes through a low to moderate income neighborhood of low density population. If reopened it would provide limited access to the south shoreline. The north shoreline is available only on foot or horseback under most conditions and via all- terrain vehicle or four wheel drive vehicles under the best of conditions. The city property actually fronts 2000 feet on F.M. 1499, a recently rebuilt farm-to-market highway but it is about 2,500 feet from the farm-to-market to the closest shoreline. Other access is afforded only through locked gates via four wheel drive vehicles from Caviness Road (C.R. 32500). Caviness Road actually crosses the upper (west) end of the lake and limited, portable boat access to the water is afforded at either of two small bridges. The Archers for Christ club and the Maxey Black Powder Rifle Club access their facilities immediately offCaviness Road whereas the Paris Gun Club actually enters offofF.M. 79. 2.1.3 Adjacent Land Uses. A significant portion of the south shoreline property owned by the city is itself bordered by Campbell Soup company property used as a spray irrigation disposal field between NW 19th Street and Lake Crook Road. This spray disposal system creates a serious odor problem according to reports from the neighborhood, especially in the heat of the summer when the wind is from the south. Other than immediately adjacent to NW 19th Street where sparsely populated residential neighborhoods are built, land south of the lake is largely unusable wetland and flood plain between NW 19th Street and Caviness Road. The gun and archery clubs occupy about the only 'develop-able' land on the western end of the lake Figure 5 Northwest comer city property at Caviness Road along Caviness Road. Proceeding noah of these clubs on Caviness one quickly runs into heavy wetlands on either side of the road all the way to the city's north boundary line where it crosses Caviness Road. There are no occupied dwellings anywhere along Caviness Road across the city land. Page 15 of 45