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assume responsibility for maintenance of the existing road as <br />well as new roads in the development. <br />A real financial problem may result when the road must be <br />upgraded from private to public. The cost must be borne by <br />the subdivider rather than distributed among all users, <br />existing and future. The dilemma is whether to approve the <br />upgrading to public status and assign the added expense to <br />the subdivider, allow the private road to stay as is, or <br />require the road to be upgraded to a higher private road <br />class. <br />The proposed amendment seeks to address the above problem(s) <br />by requiring new private roads to access existing public <br />roads. The result, however, is a development pattern where <br />small subdivisions are developed with private dead -end roads <br />adjacent to public transportation corridors, leaving large <br />amounts of undeveloped land behind. While this may be <br />reflective of the current development pattern in the county, <br />it raises the question as to whether or not we want to <br />legitimize such a pattern through an ordinance amendment. <br />Another concern is related.to the goal of achieving a <br />coordinated street pattern. Even though a subdivision <br />accesses an existing private road, it may make more design <br />sense to allow access if it results (long -term) in a more <br />coordinated pattern. <br />Finally, what happens when a parcel fronting on an existing <br />private road is proposed for subdivision, and the existing <br />private road (on which it fronts)- does not connect to a <br />public road but another private road? Likewise, what happens <br />when mom and dad wish to convey lots to brother and sister, <br />the property is located on an existing private road, and the <br />only means of providing access to the new lots is with a new <br />private road? My reading of the provision is that both <br />developments would not be possible. <br />The alternate wording provided below is based on a proposed <br />amendment -to be presented at the August 30, 1990 public <br />hearing. <br />IV- B -3 -b. All subdivisions containing private streets <br />shall have at least one street which <br />intersects with or joins an extension of a <br />public, state, or municipally- maintained <br />street, or other private road. <br />Iv- B -3 -d -1 1. If the State standard not met is a design <br />standard rather than a density standard, a <br />