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around 12 years ago, 51" Street NW is the traffic -bearing road of the area. 5t" Street bears the traffic from Nowthen and eastern Elk River to and from northern 169. In 20 years at this location I have seen and heard 5t" Street turn into an acceleration lane for teenagers driving modified pickups with extremely loud exhaust pipes, to 60+ boomers on motorcycles with extremely loud exhaust pipes. My concerns with this new development is increased traffic, the attendant danger from speeders, and the nuisance of pointless noise up to 90 decibels. Has the planning commission considers these issues in its deliberation, if so, has it any plans to mitigate these issues? My hope is that the commission will not only address my concerns but act positively as well. I believe he's speaking to 5t" Avenue being turned into more of a through street and obviously in the new condition this would not be there because access to 169 will be eliminated. Eric: Just out of curiosity, it's hard to see from this view, Zach, but this new development, they could go down, take a right and go kind of by — and be able to get out to 5t" Street from Baldwin, right? Zack: You could have a round -about way that yes, you could go south, take a right and then take a right back onto Baldwin and get to the north, yes. Eric: I would assume anybody that wants to go to School Street or the frontage road of Dodge Avenue, that's the preferable path, right? Likely the only path? Zack: Yep. The other option would be to go down to 169, use the entrance ramp, get onto 169 and exit onto School Street. Eric: Or go out to Main Street, go up to Twin Lakes and around? Zack: Yea, the two quickest would be to either utilize Baldwin and Dodge, or get onto the interchange onto Highway 169. Eric: Any concerns with increased traffic on Baldwin? Zack: I would say Baldwin would see an increase in traffic regardless of any use that goes into this one in general, but I mean — I think the goal at this point in time for this particular plan was to address Line Avenue concerns because, as we know, that particular roadway receives more traffic than Twin Lakes Road does in this area. Rob: Are these scheduled to be done before the cut-off or circle on Line Avenue, or is Line Avenue and these apartments going to be concurrent or what's the projection? Zack: Construction timing moves around a bit. There will be some overlap but right now — again things can change obviously— but it looks like the cul-de-sac would be put in before full build - out of the subdivision but not before any homes go in so there's also been a traffic analysis that was completed by the applicant to look at potential traffic impacts of this use on this site. Their traffic analysis did not show any negative impacts and that showed preconstruction as well. I think that traffic analysis was also attached into the staff report. 11