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City Council August 15, 2002 Page Seven Trunk Highway 1691County Road 33 Interchange MnDOT continues to work toward the construction date for the interchange at County Road 33 (CR 33) on TH 169. It is our understanding that land acquisition activities are nearing completion. Plans have been completed to approximately 90 percent. We believe MnDOT is hoping to let the project in late 2002, with construction activities in 2003 and early 2004. There is one issue that has been brought up by MnDOT. With the realignment of CR 33 on the west side of TH 169, there will be a small portion of existing CR 33, which will need to be turned back to the City of Elk River to act as a City street for access to the existing businesses on the north side of existing CR 33. MnDOT will be acquiring land and constructing a cul-de- sac at the east end of this piece of CR 33, which will act as a City street accessing the businesses after MnDOT's project. MnDOT has asked the City to consider adopting the attached resolution to allow this property acquired by MnDOT for the construction of the cul- de-sac to be turned back directly to the City of Elk River. Apparently, State statute or MnDOT policy would require them to turn it back to the County without such a resolution being adopted by the City of Elk River. We would recommend that the City Council adopt the attached resolution. County Road 44 and County 40 Potential Turn Backs We have recently met with Dave Schwarting, County Engineer, to discuss the potential turn backs of CR 40 (Cleaveland Avenue) between CSAH 12 and CSAH 13 to the City of Elk River. We also discussed the potential turn back of CR 44 (Meadowvale Road) between TH 10 and CSAH 1. We also discussed briefly with Mr. Schwarting the turn back from the City to the County of 221st Avenue from TH 169 to CSAH 1. Mr. Schwarting provided some information to us relative to how much monies the County has budgeted for these two projects. The County does have a federal TEA 21 grant for CR 40 in fiscal year 2004. We will be further analyzing the information received in this meeting from Sherbume County and will be presenting it to City Council with a staff recommendation at a later date. GIS Mapping The GIS map is essentially complete. It has been entirely reviewed by the County. The County found approximately twenty additional properties in the old core City area, which were not on the first list we worked from to build the map. We are currently adding those, and that will complete the City's obligation for building the GIS parcel map. We, together with the Planning department, are preparing a presentation to other department heads to make them aware of this, the tool the City will have to start building a database of information. Recommendation for All-way Stop Sign Installation The police chief talked with me after the most recent National Night Out neighborhood meetings. There are two neighborhoods where he received comments relative to all-way stop sign installations the neighborhood would like to see. The first is Auburn Street at the intersection with 195th Avenue. This is the neighborhood where we have previously had public informational meetings talking about slowing traffic and cut-through traffic. It is the intersection that the Woods at Hillside 1st Addition created with Auburn Street. Currently, 195th Avenue is a stop condition with no stop signs on Auburn Street. The police chief indicated that the neighbors in this area asked for a stop condition to be also installed on Auburn Street. Ltr-081302-Council.doc Howard R, Green Company CONSULTING ENGINEER8