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&AGKGROUND RELATED PLANNING EFFpRTS The master plan for the ~7~st Avenue ~A~T exists in the context of major transportation planning efforts for the prirr~ary transportatio~~ corridors tl~ro~gl~ iRlk River, These transportation planning studies and their a€~tcomes are critical in de~nir~g the future [and use direction for the ~~~st Avenue FAST, i~ey decisions an la1~d use will lil~ely ~e determined bythe locationofafutureinterchange fnr i~ighway~~f ~~, asavertime the corridortrar~sitians to a limited access freeway ar~d all existing accesses are eliminated, The following is a review of the transportation end land use planning efl'arts related to the ~~~st Avenue FAST ~~o~ l~~~er-~eg~at~d~ Cn~r~d~r ~~a~~ge~n~ ~~~~ in ~~~~ [~ ~~T, working vxiith input from the city of ~lC~ River, completed aninter- Regional Corridor anageme~~t Plan identifyi~~g alternative strategies for upgrading Highway ~o~~g south of Highway ~~~ i~~ ~ll~ River to a limited access f reewaya The study identified two options far a future six lane freeway alignment; rAlignmer~t A' essentially r~~nning parallel to the rail line roughly ~o~' away and `Alignment B' the existing Highway ~aJ~~g corridor. The study also identified two interchange locations within ~ll~ River between Highway ~o~ and the eastern boundary of the community for either align~r~ent, one would be located near~arvis street and the other near ~~~th Avenue while the planning effort was completed in ~a~~, l~ [~ ~~T still has not identified any funding for this project in their ~~ gear capital ir~prnvernents prngram~ ~rg~w~y ~~~~6~ Pre~x~~n~ry ~~~~~~ ~n~ ~~tri!r~~monta~ l~~~un~e~t~ti'~~ tud~ ~~rrently underway are two ~N Q~T studies funded by the City investigating wa}-s to solve traffic bottlenecks in ~ll~ River clang Highway ~o leading west through historic riowntawn, High~ray ~~g heading Werth throagh a ~~~ajnr camrr~ercial area of the cor~r~unity, and tl7e ~o~ & ~a~~~~ interchange, Tl~e two studies identify a preferred reconstruction plan for the major interchange at ~o~ and 1~~1~~}~ the iUiain street and ~chaoi street intersections clang i-iighway ~6~ and the intersections along Highway 1a rnaving tl~rogh the dawr~town area west to ~al~e Orono, A mare detailed revie of these regional transpartatiar~ planning efforts are discussed in the assumptions chapter of this report* ~~~ 1~~~~r ~o~r~~ie~~~~e Pl<~n In ~~a3 the city of ilk River co~~pleted a Ca~T~prehensive Plan update fnr the communlty~ At the tune of the update much of the land within the FAST project was unde~reloped~ in general, the City designated highway commercial uses along the Higl~wa}~ ~oJ~~ corridor with ligl~t i~~dustrial uses beyond, earth of the rail line high density housing was selected as the future [and use, Two additional transportation i~~itiatives were ider~tif ed as part of the ~o~~nprehensive Plan update, The first initiative was to create a connection between ~7~st Avenue and ~~~th Avenue through the extensia~~ of Twin ~alces Parkway, and tl~e second was to investigate a roadway connection between _ Hi h~va ~o ~5 on tl~e fareastern bo~indar of the cornmunit , .:T:~~~z ~SAH ~z ar~d g y l 9 y Y . ~.~ M~ r ..,;:,~~...x ~~- ~; ;- -~. :.~ ~,M ~: A. ~~.~~~ ~~ ~..~ o-