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Howard R, Green Oompany May 8, 2002 File: 812620J-0240 Item # 4.1. Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 490 Elk River, MN 55330-0490 RE: ELK RIVER STATION SIGNALIZATION DISCUSSION Dear Council Members: Len Pratt and John Peterson, the developers of the proposed Elk River Station Addition are scheduled to appear before the City Council on Monday, May 13, 2002. They want an opportunity to discuss with the City Council the potential of a signalized intersection for the main entrance to their development at Tyler Street. They have been consistently told by me, throughout the last 18 months, that I recommend two full access intersections, including left turn movements, for a development this dense and I would not support signalization of either of the access points at Tyler Street. There are a number of pieces of information that I think are relevant to this discussion with the developers for the background information of the City Council. This information is as follows: Attached is an area map showing the location of the property and the proposed development layout last presented to the City Council. The last time this development was before the City Council was August 27, 2001. At that meeting, the developers were requesting a land use amendment to change the land use from LI - Light Industrial and LR - Low Density Residential, to CC - Community Commercial and MR - Medium Density Residential, and to bring the property into the Urban Service District. Other actions before the City Council that evening were to rezone the property from Rla and A1 to PUD. There was also a request for preliminary plat approval and a conditional use permit. The City Council voted 4 to 1 with the Mayor opposed to bring the property into the Urban Service Distdct and to change the land use designations. The City Council voted unanimously to postpone action on the rezoning, preliminary plat, and conditional use permit requests. At the August 27, 2001, City Council meeting, the proposal before the City Council and reviewed by staff did not contain a request to signalize any intersection with Tyler Street. The recommendation that was provided in the staff material for that meeting was approval of the developer's proposed phasing contained in a letter from them dated August 16, 2001. The proposed phasing was 208 apartment units, 191 townhome units east of Tyler Street, and all of the commercial/office buildings west of Tyler Street in the first phase. This phasing proposal was based on limiting the traffic generated to approxcimately 2000 total daily trips until a second full access could be provided. Any additional development east of Tyler Street would have required a second full movement access onto Tyler Street. Ltr 5-3-02 Council 1326 Energy Park Drive · St. Paul, MN 55108 · 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389