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o <br /> <br />Projects with components which have already been funded and/or <br />implemented from other funding sources, especially projects for which the <br />proposed Enhancements funded element would complete a larger project, <br />concept, or plan. <br /> <br />This project was initiated in 1981 when MnDOT funded a $59,000 bikeway/walkway <br />project parallel to State Trunk Highway g47, immediately south of the County Road gl 16 <br />Alternate Transportation Corridor. This is but one of the connections the ISTEA <br />Enhancement funds will cause. <br /> <br />As noted above, this project includes use of other more recent completed components as <br />well. Included is the Highway #116 Bridge Project completed in 1991, an overpass over <br />Highway #116, an underpass under Highway #116, mud 25.6 miles of bikeway/walkway <br />completed by both public and private parties over the past several years within the <br />communities of Anoka and Ramsey. <br /> <br />The existing components of the bikeway/walkway system have been completed by <br />the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Anoka County, City of Anoka, City <br />of Ramsey, and private commercial and residential developers. <br /> <br />This project completes the final 2.6 miles of a 25.6 mile alternative <br />transportation system. This system connects five schools containing 7,083 <br />studems and 528 employees; two industrial parks, retail developments, three MTC <br />transportation hubs, and residential subdivisions in the Anoka and Ramsey <br />Metropolitan Urban Service Area. <br /> <br />Projects which qualify in two or more of the ten categories of <br />Enhancements identified in the ISTEA and/or more than one of the three <br />groupings of these categories established for Minnesota's process. <br /> <br />This project address' the following three activities of the ten exclusive federal categories: <br /> <br />Provision of facilities for pedestrians and bicycles, including bikeway/walkway <br />construction, lockers, lighting and signage. <br /> <br />Acquisition of scenic easements and scenic or historic sites, including acquisition of <br />900 feet of Grass Lake's shoreland. <br /> <br />Landscaping and other scenic beautification, including 1.5 miles of <br />bikeway/walkway landscaping. <br /> <br />The proposal assists in historic preservation resulting from the bikeway/walkway <br />construction adjacent to the 1892, one room, school house, (the oldest existing in <br />Anoka County and on the National Historic Register). <br /> <br />This project also accomplishes two of the three Minnesota: <br /> <br />Pedestrian and bicycle facilities. <br /> <br />Scenic and environmental. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />