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Honorable Mayor and City Council December 6, 2001 Page Two improvements are 95% complete and have been initially reviewed by MnDOT. The two issues that remain to be resolved on this project are land acquisition and utility issues. First, on land acquisition, I have met with the majority of property owners along the project and discussed the need for land acquisition. In each individual meeting, I am providing the property owner a written offer based on tax value of their property along with easement documentation. This is required by Federal law associated with the TEA-21 grant. Thus far, the only easement that has been fully executed is for the Klein property. One property owner talked to me just this week and indicated they would like to take the City's offer of money and, in fact, have asked for slightly more than the amount offered. The property owner was offered approximately $1,350 for the easement. They have come back and asked for $2,000. Based on this, I am looking for direction from the City Council as to how to proceed with land acquisition. Would the City Council like me to continue to push to have the easements signed at no cost in anticipation of a road improvement with no assessments to abutting property owners, or would the City Council want to pursue a strategy of paying for and/or condemning property along 175th Avenue, assuming that the street improvement would be assessed to the abutting property owners? The second issue is whether or not to include sanitary sewer and watermain with the project. The proposed Park Pointe project will be coming forward to the City Council on December 17th. At that time, we believe there will be a petition from the Developers of that project requesting sanitary sewer and watermain be included in 175th Avenue. A decision on whether or not to include sanitary sewer and water in the project can certainly wait until the petition is received or later. D. ZANE AVENUEIMPROVEMENTS This is the Cooperative Agreement project that would realign Zane Avenue near the NAPA Auto Parts Store and Saxon Motors. along with connecting the road to the new road in the Mississippi Ridge development, allowing the access onto TH 10 to be permanently closed. We have recently heard back from MnDOT that they do have funding available to participate in this project. They have earmarked approximately $160,000 for their contribution to the road improvement. As we discussed previously, at this point the City Council should consider whether or not to order a feasibility study for the extension of sanitary sewer and water laterals to serve NAPA Auto Parts, Saxon Motors, and the Americlnn. Attached for your consideration is a resolution which would authorize such a feasibility study. E. WACO STREET/TH 10 SIGNALIZATION MnDOT has approved the Signal Justification Report for the signalization of this intersection. We have prepared preliminary plans and have had them reviewed by MnDOT. At this point, we are waiting for direction from the City Council on how and when to proceed with this project. One issue is should any of the adjacent property be assessed for the signal and if so, how much. The second issue is one of timing, when to proceed with the construction of the signal. The City could initiate the construction of the signal or wait until a request comes forward for the signal from the adjacent properties. Ltr 12-05-01 Council.doc