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POver <br /> <br />Item # 6.4. <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Michele McPherso ,~Director of Planning <br /> <br />October 20, 2003 <br /> <br />Case No. EV 03-06 <br />Request by the City of Elk River to Vacate the Troy Street <br />Railroad Crossing- Public Hearing <br /> <br />Request <br /> <br />The City Council is asked to vacate the Troy Street railroad crossing. <br />Attachments <br /> <br /> Location Map <br />· Photographs <br /> Petition from Troy Street Residents <br />· Resolution No. 03-__, Vacating the Railroad Crossing <br /> <br />Analysis <br /> <br />In April of 2003, staff via a complaint through Councilmember Dietz, began investigating <br />the possibility of vacating the railroad crossing at Troy Street. Residents along Troy Street <br />have indicated that the train whistles begin east of Ogden Street and continue through the <br />Troy Street crossing and west beyond the Zebulon crossing. <br /> <br />After several conversations with the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad (BNSF), staff <br />has notified the neighbors of the railroad crossing vacation. <br /> <br />The railroad crossing is a small field crossing with cross bucks only, no mechanical arms <br />indicating stoppage from County Road 35. It appears that one resident north of the crossing <br /> <br /> <br />