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Transportation Issues Update November 7, 2005 Page 3 Participation Policy requires Cities to fund additional right-of-way. Due to the fact that we were unaware of this portion of the project, we had not begun to discuss with the Council the land acquisition costs. Sherburne COllilty staff is proceeding to acquire the necessary additional right-of-way and is currently funding it themselves. They would like to discuss with the City the potential for future repayment of the costs of this right-of- way acquisition. This item may be best introduced at the joint meeting and then held for further discussion at a quarterly Transportation Committee meeting, and then brought back to the City Council with a recommendation from the Transportation Committee. 5. County Highway 44 Reclaiming Sherburne County has undertaken the project to reclaim and overlay the surface of County Highway 44 from approximately Trunk Highway 10 to County Highway No.1. Sherburne County staff will be providing City staff with available information regarding the County Highway 44 right-of-way and topography. City staff will be using this information to analyze and determine the potential for a City-constructed detached trail within or adjacent to the County Highway 44 right-af-way. We anticipate that we will be analyzing this issue over the winter months and be reporting back through Bill Maertz and the Parks and Recreation Commission to the City Council with a recommendation in the Spring of 2006. 6. County Highway 33 and 77 Tumback There is a portion of old County Highway 33 from Trunk Highway 169 to County Highway 77 and a portion of County Highway 77 from existing County Highway 33 northward to Trunk Highway 169 which will no longer serve a County function after the newly constructed road is completed in 2007. Sherburne County has asked the City of Elk River to take back these portions of existing County Highway 33 and County Highway 77. Attached for the City Council's consideration is an agreement prepared by Sherburne County for the City to accept these roadways back. The roadways in question have had their surfaces reclaimed and have been newly overlaid in 2005. After the new County Highway 33 alignment is constructed in 2007, traffic on these turnback roads will be limited primarily to adjacent businesses and property owners. The City of Elk River will receive a small increase in Municipal State Aid (MSA) dollars by the turnback of these roadways, since MSA rules allow turnback county roads to be added to the MSA system above and beyond the City's normal mileage. I would recommend that the City Council approve the attached turnback agreement. 7. County Highway 33 - Sharp Curves East of TH169 Police Chief Jeff Beahen has been dealing with complaints about the sharp curves in County Highway 33 east of TH169 for a long time. (Attached is a memo from Chief Beahen regarding this issue.) With the recently completed interchange at County Highway 33/TH169 and the increase of traffic in general, the potential for a serious accident at these curves is growing. We have discussed possible solutions with the County Engineering staff. They have a conceptual layout of how County Highway 33 could be realigned in the future to meet up with County Road 22 in Anoka County. This will not fix the sharp curves but would likely reduce the traffic using them. S:\Engineer\100S CCmemos\ll 0705 Transp issues update.doc