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Howarc R. Green Company <br /> August 9, 2001 <br /> File: 812620)-0240 <br /> Mr. Scott Harlicker <br /> Senior Planner <br /> City of Elk River <br /> 13065 Orono Parkway <br /> P.O. Box 490 <br /> Elk River, Minnesota 55330-0490 <br /> RE: ELK RIVER STATION <br /> Dear Mr. Harlicker: <br /> As requested, we have reviewed the revised submittal package for the Elk River Station <br /> development. The package consisted of a preliminary plat, preliminary utility plan, <br /> preliminary grading plan in both 50 scale and 100 scale, storm sewer design calculations <br /> for the pipe system, and a draft environmental assessment worksheet. All of the revised <br /> plans were dated August 6, 2001 and were prepared by Passe Engineering Inc. Based <br /> upon our review and comments received at the staff review meeting, we would offer the <br /> following comments: <br /> A. Traffic/Transportation Issues <br /> 1. At full development, this project is expected to generate over 5,200 trips per day. <br /> Approximately 4,000 of these trips will come from the area east of Tyler Street. <br /> In several meetings with the developers and their traffic engineer, we insisted <br /> that a development generating this much traffic would need two full access points <br /> on the east side of Tyler Street. Several options were discussed for the second <br /> full access. Through negotiation, it was determined that a compromise would be <br /> to allow the development to plat enough property to generate 2,000 trips per day <br /> total. Any trips beyond 2,000 trips per day would require the development of a <br /> second full access. No revised traffic analysis was submitted with this revised <br /> package, nor was there any information regarding what the developers propose <br /> to plat in the first phase to cap total trips generated on the east side of Tyler <br /> Street at 2,000 per day. <br /> One of the suggested alternatives for a second access was to build a frontage <br /> road up to the intersection of 173rd Avenue with Tyler Street. This is the location <br /> of the second (northerly) access to the Northstar Corridor parking lot. We asked <br /> the developers to show on their revised plan how this second access could be <br /> developed in the future without impacting any of the proposed buildings/parking <br /> lots anticipated in the first addition. We also asked that they show how the <br /> 1326 Energy Park Drive • St. Paul, MN 55108 • 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389 <br />