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TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and Council <br /> <br />Pat Klaers, City Administrator <br /> <br />May 13, 2002 <br /> <br />Consider City Transportation Plan Update <br /> <br />Item ~ 7.1. <br /> <br />Transportation is a big issue to most everyone in Elk River. To better address transportation <br />concerns, the City Council has requested information on updating our current city <br />Transportation Plan. <br /> <br />There are some transportation issues that the city can do very litde about. The highway <br />system fits into this category... There are other transportation issues, which the city can <br />"fix," but improvements are limited due to available funding and due to existing <br />developments. Most of our existing local streets fit into this category... Finally, there are <br />transportation issues that the city can do a great deal about and future streets, both within <br />proposed development projects and any proposed main corridor, fit into this category. <br /> <br />Our current Transportation Plan is more of a corridor preservation plan than anything else. <br />The Plan lacks policies that can guide Council decisions. The city needs a long-range <br />Transportation Plan to usc as a basis for staff recommendations and City Council decisions. <br /> <br />Work on the Transportation Plan will run parallel to the Comprehensive Plan work. Some of <br />the recommendations in the Transportation Plan will depend on future development <br />patterns and likewise, some of the land use recommendations will depend on the future <br />transportation system. The Transportation Plan and Comprehensive Plan go hand in hand in <br />providing good management tools for the city to use in making decisions that are consistent. <br /> <br />Much like the Comprehensive Plan, which is currently underway, there arc no funds in the <br />2002 budget for an updated Transportation Plan. In review of the material from the city <br />engineer, it is difficult to find many areas that can be deleted from the proposed work plan. <br />This will not be a cheap endeavor but a complete and thorough Transportation Plan is very <br />much overdue and needed. <br /> <br />Funding for the Transportation Plan could come from thc street reserves; however, a better <br />choice may be to use some of the fund balance. This issue is to be discussed during the audit <br />presentation and some monies are available at the Council discretion for this type of project. <br /> <br /> <br />