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IV. <br /> <br />ge <br /> <br />VI. <br /> <br />Appendix D Project Management Plan <br /> <br />Volume 3 <br /> Land Use and Supporting Documentation <br /> <br />The New Starts Criteria were compiled using the new federal requirements effective <br />September 1, 2001. The new User Benefit Model was not included in this update, <br />however, as per verbal instruction at the September 6 - 7, 2001, FTA workshop in <br />Washington, DC. <br /> <br />Preliminary Engineering (PE) <br /> <br />The PE package was submitted to FTA on June 1,2001. Comments have been <br />received from the Project Management Oversight Consultant (PMOC) and several <br />local jurisdictions. The Project holds periodic meetings with Technical Advisory <br />Committees divided into segments along the con'idor. Comments from these and <br />other meetings impacting design have been documented to address during the final <br />design phase of the project. The capital cost estimate, Project Management Plan, <br />and Financial Plan were updated in the November 8 New Starts Criteria submittal. <br /> <br />Multi~modal Connection <br /> <br />The multi-modal connection is the extension of the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit <br />(LRT) line from its current downtown Minneapolis terminus at Fifth Street North <br />and First Avenue North to a terminus at the downtown Minneapolis comrnuter rail <br />station at Fifth Street North near Fifth Avenue North. The PE for the multi-modal <br />connection was included in the PE package for the entire Project submitted to FTA <br />on June 1 and in the New Start Criteria submitted to the FTA on November 8. <br /> <br />Agreement has been reached between the Hiawatha Project Office and the Northstar <br />Corridor Rail Project to transfer final design of the segment from 1st Avenue North <br />to 3rd Avenue North from the Hiawatha Project to the Northstar Project. <br /> <br />Land Use <br /> <br />Information describing land use along the corridor was also included in the <br />November 8 New Starts Criteria submittal. It described progress on a number of <br />issues ranging from community-involved station area planning efforts to zoning for <br />Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) near stations to private investments in station <br />area development. <br /> <br />The last quarterly report and the November 8 New Starts Criteria submittal. <br />described the proposed Elk River Station development at the Elk River station site - <br />a mixed-use neighborhood including apartments, town homes, senior cooperative <br />housing, and various commercial uses. <br /> <br />Northstar Corridor Quarterly Report <br />January 23,2001 <br /> <br /> <br />