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Item # 6.2. MEMORANDUM .~..~. Elk River TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Justin Femrite P.E., City Engineer DATE: December 12, 201 I SUBJECT: 171St Area Phase (Improvements -Preliminary Engineering This memo summarizes the preliminary engineering work that has been completed for the Phase 1 improvements to the 171ST Area as authorized by the City Council on Apri14, 2011. The location of the city-owned 29-acre Phase 1 portion of the development is shown on Figure No. 1. The memo discusses the required improvements, costs, funding sources, and detailed project timeline for final completion. At the work session, staff will review the developable lots, improvement layout, project costs, process, and schedule for completing the improvements in Phase 1. The intent of completing Phase 1 at this time is to establish an implementation pattern. It is staffls experience that a tangible project is more marketable, and less risky, to potential buyers. Developable Lots and Land Uses The proposed alignment of Twin Lakes Road and associated connecting side streets as shown in the attached figures will create three lots fox a total of 15.31 acres. The land uses for the lots, as proposed in the 171St Avenue Focused Area Study, are designated as Transit Center and Jobs Area. Transit Center is intended as a mixed use, predominately jobs based, but allowing some housing and some retail. Jobs Area is intended as an office, manufacturing area, perhaps similar to the Business Park zoning district. The two northern most lots are designated for Transit Center uses and the largest lot in the southwest portion of the development is designated for Jobs Area uses. When reviewing how the new street alignments would dissect the property, a lot of consideration was given to maximizing the amount of developable area, minimizing total wetland disturbance, lot shapes, points of access, proximity of the existing gas main, and overall layout of the existing topography of the land. The proposed lot configuration for parcels in Phase 1 is shown on the attached Ultimate Improvements figure. Twin Lakes Road is designated as a major collector roadway in the city Comprehensive Transportation Plan. As such, no new direct accesses are proposed on this corridor through the development. Access to the 0.86 acre lot in the northwest corner of the development would be from the existing entrance located on 1715` Avenue across from FO~ERER I1 NA~~~~