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Transportation Plan Go~ls Page S constraints/opportunities as well as consider public input to determine how many lanes can be added to exisdng roadways and where new roadway alignments should be located. Work with Mn/DOT, Sherburne County, and neighboring jurisdictions. The nature of furore improvements to TH 10 and TH 169 in Elk River will likely have enormous impacts on how the city functions and grows. Mn/DOT, having identified these roadways in Elk River as high and medium priority interregional corridors, has already developed future highway improvement concepts as part of the TH 10 and TH 169 Corridor Management Plans. Also, improvement actions implemented on TH 10 and TH 169 in adjacent communities will likely affect future highway improvements in Elk River. For example, TH 101 in Otsego will be converted to a freeway by 2006. Mn/DOT has recently completed an environmental scoping document defining a potential corridor for a future TH 10 bypass of Big Lake. The city of Ramsey is pursuing a future alignment change and freeway conversion for TH 10. As these actions are implemented, they begin to narrow the improvement actions that can be taken by Elk River. The city should be proactive and work with Mn/DOT and neighboring communities on deciding what future improvements might take place on these two highways. Working with Sherburne County on future roadway improvement actions is equally important to working with Mn/DOT. Several of the major roadways identified for improvement in the city are under county jurisdiction. It is crucial for the city to work with the county to determine the timing, funding, and nature of these improvements. Also, Elk River should work with Sherburne County to determine if some existing and future city roadways should become county roadways and vice versa. Roadway jurisdiction affects how roadways function and how they are maintained and financed. Make the public and developers aware of the transportation plan. As developers approach Elk River with development proposals, city staff and officials should examine the transportation plan to see if the proposals are consistent with the plan. They should make the plan's improvement actions visible and readily available to developers and interested members of the general public so they can make decisions in accord with the plan. If stakeholders know what is in the plan in advance of making key decisions, opposition to the plan should be minimized. Use available planning and regulatory tools to help implement the plan. The city's authority over planning and zoning can help guide the implementation of the transportation plan. For example, the city can use official mapping to identify the corridor location of future roadways. It can also request that developers dedicate a portion of their land for roadway fight-of-way. Another example that could be used if appropriate is interchange area planning and zoning. If it is determined that all or portions of TH 10 and TH 169 should be converted to freeway, the city could develop interchange area plans and/or overlay zones to guide development around future interchanges. That way, future development along TH 10 and TH 169 would have to be consistent with the respective improvement plans for the highways. In addition, Section 5.1 of the plan discusses access and signal spacing guidelines that should be utilized when determining future access and signal locations on major roadways in the city. This section also refers to sample access management ordinances that are found in Appendix