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March 26, 1993 COUNTY OF ANOKA Department of Highways Patti K. Ruud, Highway Engineer 1440 BUNKER LAKE BLVD NW, ANDOVER, MINNESOTA 55304 612-754-3520 City of Ramsey 15153 Nowthen Boulevard NW Rarnsey, MN. 55303 RECEIVED t!¢ R .3 0 1993 Ans'rt ............ Attention: Ryan R. Schroeder, City Administrator Regarding: City Letter of March 22, 1993 Dear Mr. Schroeder: Thank you for your letter of March 22, 1993 in response to the Anoka County Highway Department Five Year Hil~hway Improvement Plan dated February, 1993. The first paragraph of your letter h~ghlights that the plan only contains one project in the City of Ramsey; that project being the extension of County Road 116 between Ramsey Boulevard and Armstrong Boulevard. The Five Year Highway Improvement Plan, that was recently circulated to all cities and towns in Anoka County, is an extension of the Anoka County 2010 Comprehensive Transportation Plan which was completed in February of 1991. The projects listed in this Five Year Highway Improvement Plan are consistent with the projects laid out in the Implementation Section of that Comprehensive Plan, which was developed within input from all of the cities and towns in Anoka County. You may wish to refer to the City of Ramsey's response to the preliminary draft to that plan, dated September 12, 1989 and to your file on the subject which must contain requests for submittal of information and projects important to the City of Ramsey. In response to your letter, I have had a chance to review the file for the development of the Anoka County 2010 Comprehensive Plan and note that little, if any, information was in fact submitted by the City of Ramsey other than the above referenced letter. In the second paragraph of your letter, you indicate that the Metropolitan Council has expressed a strong desi£e to see off-system road improvements parallel to TH 10. While we are aware that Metropolitan Council has expressed this strong desire, we understand that there main concern is from Round Lake Boulevard to the south and east rather than the area west of the City of Anoka. In addition it is Anoka County's position that additional traffic capacity should be added to TH 10 in the area between Round Lake Boulevard and new TH 10 thru the Cities of Coon Rapids and Blaine, rather than forcing that traffic onto local roads and highways. We have responded to the City of Andover's request for participating in a study of the transportation corridor by indicating that Anoka County is willing to participate in this study but that the Minnesota Department of Transportation should take a leading role in this study as they have in other areas of the Metropolitan region. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer