Minutes - Planning Commission - 07/06/1994 - Special Jt Mtg

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designated Medium and High Density Residential. The landfill area is designated Open Space. A Park, would be developed north of this Open Space area. To the south of the Open Space area is designated Industrial. Land south of Hwy. 10 is predominantly designated Single Family Residential. However, some areas along the highway are proposed for more intense uses. An area east of Kamsey Blvd. provides for High Density Residential. Likew/se, the area on the highway west of the bridge road is designated High Density Residential. Between Ramsey and Armstrong is the Commercial area that provides the new residential and commercial areas with retail services. A frontage/access road runs along the south side of Hwy. 10, providing access to the residential and commercial areas. This eliminates the need for direct access on and offthe highway and reduces highway congestion. In addition to the frontage road along the highway, a collector road provides access to the Single Family areas between Hwy. 10 and the river on either side of the bridge road. Figure 7: Western Bridge Alignment, Alternative #2 This is the bridge location and land use alternative recommended by the Planning Commission. As in Figure 6, the Mississippi River bridge would be constructed south of Puma St. The bridge road would essentially be an extension of CR 116, the east-west collector. Traffic from the bridge would be directed onto Hwy. 10, via a diamond interchange, or pass over the highway for access to the commercial and industrial uses along CR 116 to the east. CR 116 also acts as an access road to businesses west of Armstrong which allows the elimination of direct access onto HWY. 10. However, CR 116 would be more a local collector west of the bridge road, servicing the residential uses. Away from the Hwy. 10 corridor, Single Family Residential dominates land uses west of Armstrong. Land uses differ somewhat from Figure 6. West of Armstrong, different land uses are shown near the interchange with the bridge road. It may be decided that this is not an appropriate area for single family residential uses. Office uses are proposed to take advantage of the high visibility of the area from the bridge road. Figure 7 thus illustrates a location trade between Office/Office Business Park and Community Commercial compared to what was shown in Figure 6. Figure 7 also depicts less residential land within the Hwy. 10 study area. As in Figure 6, the area along Hwy. 10 east of Ramsey Blvd. and west of Sunfish Lake Blvd. is designated for Highway Commercial uses. Two business access roads provide access to the businesses here and within the Business Warehouse and Industrial areas north of the tracks. The road between the l~.ghway and the tracks allows the elimination of direct access onto the highway, reducing highway congestion, while stilI providing good access to the businesses along the highway.