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Preliminary Plat: Ramsey Town Center Addition August 8, 2003 Page 2 of 9 acre. More specific information regarding densities will be required when the outlots are developed. Lots. The plat will create two lots, and 18 outlots. Lot 1, Block 1 is located adjacent Ramsey Blvd. and north of the proposed Sunwood Drive and is the proposed location of the P.A.C.T. Charter School. Prior to any development on this lot, a site plan will need to be approved. It is expected that a site plan will be considered in the near future. Lot 1, Block 2 is located south of the proposed Sunwood Drive and is intended to be the temporary location of a MnDOT Park and Ride and a stop for the Northstar Commuter Bus Service. Due to funding deadlines, the City is proposing to construct the parking lot in this area until such time it is relocated in the core of the Town Center near the future transit station. The location shown on the plat will be a future parking lot that will serve the medical facilities proposed to be located within the Town Center. Outlot J as shown on the plat (the current City well house) will need to be platted as a lot. Access and Streets. The proposed plat shows right-of-way being created for the major roads contained in the Town Center Plat. These streets include Sunwood Drive between Ramsey Blvd. and Armstrong Blvd.; Zeolite St. NW between the railroad tracks and County Road 116; Rhinestone St. NW between the railroad tracks and County Highway 116; Peridot St. NW between Sunwood Dr. and Ramsey Parkway; Ramsey Parkway between Ramsey Blvd. and Armstrong Blvd.; and Town Center Drive from Sunwood Dr. and County Highway 116. The plat also shows an access road called Civic Center Drive that will provide access for deliveries and provide for a secondary access to parking ramps and direct access to the future transit station. Civic Center Drive will provide for an emergency access drive for public safety vehicles to enter onto Ramsey Blvd. Zeolite St. and Rhinestone St. conform to the City's street naming grid. Sunwood Drive is an extension of an already existing street through Ramsey. The proposed street names of Ramsey Parkway and Town Cent'er Drive do not conform to the street naming grid, however, staff feels that these names may be appropriate for the development. Staff does fell that Civic Center Drive, the access road parallel to the railroad tracks, is not the 'most appropriate name for the road. Staff will be meeting with the Town Center Task FOrce to review the street names shown on the plat and will work with the developer in having appropriate street names within the Town Center. Typical Street sections are shown on Sheets 27 and 28 of 83. Physical street widths range from 34 feet up to 66 feet wide for two-way traffic. The right-of-ways for these streets range from 50 feet to 90 feet. Street widths for the one-way streets are 27 feet (which includes an eight-foot parking lane) with the right-of-ways going up to 120 feet around the central green corridor. A traffic study was conducted as part of the Town Center AUAR. The street sizes have been created in accordance with the need outlined in the AUAR. Full buildout will require traffic improvements off-site of the Town Center. Specifically, additional thru and turn lanes will need to be constructed on the County Roads surrounding the Town Center. In addition, traffic signals will need to be installed at the major -3O7-