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Item # 9.1. <br />ver <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director <br />DATE: June 2, 2008 <br />SUBJECT: 193"d Avenue Improvement Update <br />As we prepare to make our final submittals Yo_VInDOT for the '193"' ~yvenue corridor <br />extension, I wanted to take a Few ruinutes to give the Council an update on the project's <br />status. The items I would likcl7~ to briefly discuss are as follows: <br />A. Euvixomneutal Documentation <br />Our Project Memorandum required because of the Federal funding in this Project <br />has been approved and signed by the h'edcral Highway Administration and MnDOT. <br />hherefore, all work on the environmental documentation is complete. <br />B. Wetland Issues <br />The Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP) has reviewed the proposal and given general <br />approval to the purchase of wetland credits to mitigate the areas where the new road <br />corridor will impact existurg wetlands. We ue working with Niclu Yo fain up the <br />exact number of wetland credits that will need to be parchased. Purchasing the <br />wetland credits will be much more cost-effective than Hying to dcvcioP wetlands on <br />the project site and lien maintaining them for a period of five years. The one issue <br />that is still ongoing with regards to wetlands is approval by the Corps of Engineers <br />for the wetland impact to the areas tinder their jurisdiction. That pesnnt application <br />has been subnn¢ed, but could take. 60 - 90 days fox final appro~=al. <br />C. Land Acquisition <br />As you are aware, the Sherburne County Court has approved the City's petition for <br />enmrent domain on four parcels (Maas, Ualviu (Z), and Howse.). The week of Map <br />L the city placed the appraised value of those four pieces of property with the court; <br />therefore, the land is technically the city's at this point in time. On May 23"'there <br />cvas a viewing conducted with the landowners' attorneys, the city's attorney, and the <br />court-appointed commissioners which I also attended. It sounds like commissioner <br />hearings will not be held until sometune this fall. Therefore., it may be some time <br />