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. � 11' Elk Elk River Comp ehensive Plan R1Ver Street System The City's Transportation Plan and Chapter 6: Transportation provide a long-term framework for managing the local street system. This initiative focuses on specific steps that work to achieve the objectives of these plans. Establish Key Street Corridors Which streets should be part of the City's state Both the Comprehensive Plan and the City's aid system and eligible for funding with municipal adopted Transportation Plan discuss broad locations state aid for streets? for expansion of the street system. A key to Are other sources of local revenue available to understanding these improvements will be identifying support this initiative? and maintaining the routes of these key street How can the City most effectively leverage funding corridors. This initiative should involve preliminary from the County and State? engineering and transportation planning analysis to evaluate the physical factors that affect routing. While A key strategy to understand existing conditions and several studies have been completed over the past what future improvements are needed would be to several years, further analysis is needed to proactively complete a pavement rating and program management plan for future routing of streets. This is important exercise to rate all of the City's existing street because: network. This will inform the City of where we are A designated route allows the city to protect the and where we need to be in the future in terms of our corridor from land use conflicts. Without the existing street network. routing plan, the City has no means of keeping development out of the potential right-of-way for the street. Encroaching development increases the Interchange Area Planning complexity and cost of the street projects. While the actual improvement of highway corridors • A designated route gives the City the means of may lie years into the future, the City benefits from incorporating these streets in future plats. the continuing proactive approach to planning for the interchange areas. The location and design of This information provides better coordination of intersections with Highway 169 and Highway 10 roadway planning with overlapping agencies such have significant implications for land use, economic as MnDOT, Sherburne County and Anoka County. development, and transportation planning. One way of achieving clarity is the creation of The nature of highway access influences adjacent an "official map." An official map is one tool for land uses. The conversion from intersections to protecting street corridors. It shows existing and interchanges or underpasses will change traffic proposed future streets, roads, and highways of movements, may require removal of existing buildings, the City and County, the area needed for widening and may create a catalyst for new development or existing streets, roads, and highways of the City redevelopment. Intersections and interchanges will and County, and existing and future county state aid also become focal points for automobile traffic. The highways and state trunk highway rights-of-way. The local street system must be designed to support traffic statutory authority for the official map comes from volumes and movement patterns. Likewise, the closure Minnesota Statutes Section §462.359. of current intersections would alter the movement patterns within the City and would alter development Undertake Financial Planning opportunities and patterns at these locations. On-going capital improvement planning is critical in the success of future street improvement projects. A proactive approach provides the City with a basis With limited sources of funding, it is particularly for working with MnDOT on planning for highway important to create financially sustainable street improvements. The alternative places the City in a improvement plans. Among the financial issues to position of reacting to State proposed designs. consider in this planning are: Chapter 3: Using the Plan / 11