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CASE #2 ANOKA COUNTY 2015 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DRAFT By: Steve Jankowski, City Engineer Background: Anoka County is in the process of updating its Comprehensive Transportation Plan. A single draft copy of the Anoka County 2015 Transportation Plan has been forwarded to me and is available for review in my office. The Forward section of this draft plan highlights the differences between the Anoka County 2015 Transportation Plan and the Metropolitan Council's Transportation Policy Plan and MnDOT's Metro District Transportation System Plan. Specifically, one of the major differences between these plans which affects Ramsey involves the T.H. #10 Corridor Study. The County draft report states: TH 10 is recommended for mid-term study. Conversion of the remaining highway segments to freeway standards is recommended, with entrance ramp metering to improve access control. The Anoka County 2015 Plan recommends transit investments as well. TH 10 in Anoka County is also part of the proposed Northstar Corridor, currently being evaluated as a candidate for a multimodal corridor or Major Investment Study between Minneapolis and St. Cloud. The Summary section of the report consists of four figures which illustrate key recommendations summarized in the body of the report. Although the figures are colored in the report, I am reproducing them in black and white with slight modification so that colored segments can be differentiated. The major elements in the draft plan of significance to the City of Ramsey include the following: The Mississippi River crossing continues to be included in the plan. The location of the crossing is unchanged frem that in the 2010 plan. The Plan continues to call for a jurisdictional change of the C.R. #56/C.S.A.H. #5 corridor fi.om the County to MnDOT, and for the transfer of T.H. #47 to Anoka County. The Plan continues to call for a jurisdictional transfer of C.R. #63 to the City of Ramsey and for the extension of C.R. #116 from C.R. #56 to C.R. #83. There are no mass transit facilities proposed in Ramsey. The Plan calls for increasing the capacity on T.H. #47 to four lanes undivided between C.S.A.H. #5 and Main Street. The Plan calls for Highway #10 to be upgraded to a four-lane freeway up to Armstrong Boulevard. The Staging of Improvements call for: (a) the improvement of C.R. #83 north of C.R. #63, and C.R. #22 to the west County line between 1997 and 2001;