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I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> , I <br /> <br /> I <br /> I <br />I <br /> I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> <br />CASE #: <br /> <br />REPORT FROM PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE <br /> By: Public Works Staff <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The Public Works Committee met on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 and discussed the following <br />cases: <br /> <br />Case #1: Consider Street Maintenance Program Multi Year Needs <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />Staff has recently revised its street inventory by updating the next programmed maintenance schedule for <br />each street segment in the City's 137 miles of paved roadway. The result was that the City will need to <br />spend nearly $3 million dollars on maintaining the City's pavements over the next six years. The <br />Committee recommended that staff revise the presented program to reflect an approximately equal <br />expenditure of City dollars over this six year period and the MSA funded programs also be identified. <br /> <br />Staff was also directed to investigate specific future rehabilitation projects (ie. Dysprosium and Waco <br />Street) and bring back recommendations that would try to accomplish the goal of traffic calming. <br /> <br />Council Action: <br /> <br />Motion to ratify the recommendations of the Public Works Committee. <br /> <br />Case #2 <br /> <br />Consider developers request for elimination of emergency access gate for <br />River Pines 4th Addition <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />As a condition of the preliminary plat approval of the Apple Ridge subdivision, an emergency access only <br />gate was to be constructed just east of Potassium Street. The developer, who is now in the process of <br />completing the final phase of the preliminary plat, has requested that the City reconsider this requirement. <br />He points out that this gate would adversely impact emergency vehicles, inconvenience residents <br />particulary those living west of the gate, and would diminish the sense of neighborhood. <br /> <br />The Public Works Committee recommended that the requirement to install this gate be eliminated as a <br />condition for this subdivision. <br /> <br />Council Action: <br /> <br />Motion to ratify the recommendation of the Public Works Committee. <br /> <br />Case #3 <br /> <br />Consider Interim Private Street Policy <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />Following the January Public Works Committee meeting, staff was directed to survey other communities <br />regarding their practices with regard' to this subject. None of the communities surveyed (Anoka, <br />Andover, Blaine, Coon Rapids, and Fridley) had a written policy and all handled the issue on a case by <br />case basis. <br /> <br />-227- <br /> <br /> <br />