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MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />January 6, 2000 <br /> <br />Betsy Wergin, Chair <br /> <br />Northstar Corridor Development Authority (NCDA) <br /> <br />Peter Beberg, Mayor, City of Anoka <br />John Weaver, Councilmember, City of Anoka <br /> <br />Status of Anoka 4~ Avenue Commuter Rail Station <br /> <br />The City of Anoka requests that the NCDA address the status of the Anoka 4~ Avenue commuter rail station based <br />upon the following facts: <br /> <br />On September 2, 1999 the NCDA approved station locations but left the Anoka 4m Avenue and Coon <br />Rapids - Riverdale stations as apparently mutually exclusive options which "are unresolved and <br />require further analysis". <br /> <br />Today, the NCDA is being asked to approve and authorize immediate implementation to develop <br />multi-modal stations at Big Lake, Elk River and Coon Rapids-Riverdale. <br /> <br />The Big Lake, Elk River and Coon Rapids-Riverdale multi-modal stations are coincident with the <br />designated locations for potential commuter rail stations. <br /> <br />The recommended action to select the Coon Rapids-Riverdale station as a multi-modal site is, in <br />reality, selection of this same location as a commuter rail station. <br /> <br />Authority planners are strongly urging Anoka to prepare a commuter rail transit area plan for the 4~ <br />Avenue station although it has not yet been formally added to the system by the NCDA. <br /> <br />As the next agenda item indicates, "for those cities in the metropolitan area where a NCDA station is <br />planned, the City will be asked, as part of the comprehensive plan review, to submit a resolution of <br />commitment to developing a full station-area plan for submittal as a plan amendment". The letter <br />also notes that "documentation of local transit-oriented land use and investment commitment is <br />needed by August submittal date for the funding request to be competitive". <br /> <br />Therefore, the City of Anoka is being requested to make commitments and expend funds for station <br />area planning without having been designated officially by the NCDA as a station location. <br /> <br />Therefore, the City of Anoka requests formal designation of the Anoka 4th Avenue station so such planning <br /> <br /> <br />