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&~wt(l~~ . SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ELK RIVER PLANNING COMMISSION HELD AT ELK RIVER CITY HALL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1996 Members Present: Chair Dillon, Commissioners Anderson, Minton, Sullivan and Thompson. Commissioner Kuester arrived at 9:00 p.m. Members Absent: Commissioner T acheny Staff Present: Steven B. Ach, City Planner; Terry Maurer, City Engineer, Stephen Rohlf, Building and Zoning Administrator, Debbie Kleckner, Recording Secretary Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, the Special Meeting of the Elk River Planning Commission was called to order at 7 p.m. by Chair Dillon. . Presentation by Terry Maurer, City Engineer. The Transportation Plan is a long range plan, which will be incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan, to handle future growth in the city. The purpose of the study is identify corridors which should be preserved for future roadways. The City of Elk River is working with Mn/Dot Sherburne County, and surrounding county, cities and townships. The City's is actively working on a corridor study with Mn/DOT for Trunk Highway 10 and Trunk Highway 169 through the City of Elk River. Issues under consideration include: which intersections should be closed, where new intersections should be opened, where accesses to the highway should be consolidated, and where signalization is needed at intersections. Terry Humbert, District 3 Planning Engineer, has expressed Mn/DOT's full support of the City's work on the transportation plan. The City has been an active participant in Sherburne County's transportation plan. Terry Maurer submitted a letter from Dave Schwarting, Sherburne County Highway Engineer to be included in the official minutes of this meeting. In formulating the Transportation Plan, staff has given their best efforts to balance the issues of residential property, larger agricultural tracts, environmentally sensitive areas and city park land in trying to choose a corridor. A two lane road is being proposed, with some widening at intersections for possible turn lanes. One exception would be roadway II E" located in the central part of the City, which is the realignment of County Road 13. This area is expected to have fairly high traffic counts and may require additional lanes. Terry explained that staff feels all of the roadway connections shown on the map, with a few exceptions, belong on the County roadway system. Following completion of the County's transportation plan, a long range plan will be considered for the County and the City to look at building these roads, as necessary, and then for the City to take back some of the County roads that are currently existing and will no longer function as a County road. .