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DESIGN REPORTS STUDIES /E GRA YDON R. BOECK, INC. ,,o,,,EE,~,~o ~ ,,,_,,,~,,,o April 23, ].987 TELEPHONE (612) 425-1950 · 7525 JOLLY LN. NO. BROOKLYN PARK, MINNESOTA 55428 Ms. Anne L. Norris Community Development Director CITY OF RAMSEY 15153 Nowthen Boulevard N.W. Ramsey, MN 55303 Re: Proposed Road Alignment Ramsey/Anoka Industrial Area Dear Anne: Sincerely appreciate your cooperative effort to mutually develop this industrial area as exhibited in the request for our input in your letter dated April 10, 1987. The property owner, and the developers I represent, have previously cooperated with the City of Anoka and the property owners abutting their property in all directions and will continue to do so. The extension of McKinley Street on the alignment you propose on the exhibit accompanying the April' 10 letter, appears to be good planning. The traffic generated and destined to the area abutting and beyond Sunfish Lake Boulevard will enjoy direct access to the Thurston Avenue railroad grade separation as opposed to the train interruption associated with the present at grade railroad crossing of Sunfish Lake Boulevard. Your proposed alignment of McKinley Street to Sunfish Lake Boulevard presents importance to designating McKinley Street from Sunfish Lake Boulevard to T.H. 47 as a Municipal State Aid (MSA) street. McKinley Street from T.H. 47 to Thurston Avenue presently meets ail the criteria for MSA designation, as proposed by the City of Anoka. The proposed McKinley Street alignment traverses approximately 850 feet of private property owned by the Fred M. Seed Estate in an area already violated by sanitary sewer easements benefitting the City of Ramsey, the Voc-Tech School and others. Now comes the westerly extension of McKinley Street requiring an additional 80 foot wide right-of-way which increases the impediments for developing the property. The roadway right-of-way will require an additional 1.7 acres of land and reduce approximately 1.7 acres of additional area to an undevelopable condition. The property abutting the proposed street extension, in the City of Anoka, does not require the street frontage for development purposes. You indicate that the City of Ramsey may not designate the roadway as an MSA street and that the construction of the street is not programmed. Designation of the street extension from Thurston Avenue to the west city limits of Anoka may also be a long time in coming. That segment of McKinley Street holds a much lower MSA designation and construction priority than presently assigned to McKinley Street east of Thurston to T.H. 47. The property owner and developers will continue to support the City of Anoka's program for constructing the easterly segment of McKinley Street. Utilities · Streets · Parks · Land Planning