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I have attached the design layout for this project, which is currently going through the <br />environmental review process. The intent is to have this project approved for preliminary design <br />and officially mapped by the end of 2012 (see attached project schedule). Completing this work <br />in 2012 is essential to understanding the impacts to adjacent properties in the area for better land <br />use decisions, and to position the City for future funding opportunities to construct this needed <br />improvement. <br />Design here image <br />Schedule here <br />Frontage Road Extension and Access to Properties South of #10 & #169 <br />During one of the open houses, early on in the public process for the interchange project, the <br />City received a couple of comments from property owners along the south side of Highway 10 <br />(east of Armstrong Boulevard) requesting a secondary access. There concern was that the future <br />interchange would obstruct visibility of eastbound travelers, thereby making it extremely <br />difficult to access their sites. In response to those comments, and consistent with MnDOT <br />policies and corridor studies, access management to those properties via a frontage road system <br />became part of the project design. This frontage road system would have direct impacts to your <br />property, as can be seen on the design layout attachment. The City would like to partner with <br />you in an effort to secure ROW along your northerly property line. This ROW would be used to <br />construct the first segment of the frontage road that would extend from the existing eastern <br />terminus of Riverdale Drive to Traprock Street, with the intent to have this roadway continue <br />through to Ramsey Boulevard in the future when the Anoka County regional park is developed <br />in the area. This frontage road is currently shown in the City's comprehensive transportation <br />plan and on our municipal state aid (MSA) roadway system. <br />Interchange Costs and Process <br />In an effort to keep the costs of the interchange project to a minimum, the City may decide to <br />investigate the option of advancing stand alone City projects for portions of the work. Advance <br />constructing portions of this project would be done to improve traffic flow through the area in <br />the short term, and be used as a City contribution to the overall interchange project in the future. <br />In that regard we have submitted an application to MnDOT for funding a portion of the <br />Riverdale Drive frontage road construction. The alignment and design for this roadway is <br />slightly different from what is shown on the interchange design and does include improvements <br />that would benefit the overall highway system; specifically median revisions at Traprock Street <br />for safer ingress /egress, construction of acceleration/turn lanes on Highway 10 at Traprock <br />Street, and closure of Alpaca Street at Highway 10 (see attached conceptual layout). If <br />successful in securing MnDOT funding for this improvement the project must be let no later than <br />June 30, 2013, and construction would ensue thereafter to be substantially complete by the end <br />of the year. <br />Concept layout pic <br />Utilities and Process for Consideration <br />In exchange for the conveyance of the required ROW for this frontage road construction the City <br />would be willing to include in the project plans the extension of sanitary sewer and watermain to <br />your property. Currently these facilities are located just south of Highway 10 on Armstrong <br />Boulevard, and the potential extension from this location to your property is estimated at $1 <br />million. Making these municipal utilities available to your property would greatly increase its <br />