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necessitate eliminating the existing intersection an vacating Armstrong between Hwy. 10 and CR 116. Alternative #2 shows Armstrong as it is now, inte secting with Hwy. 10. This poses traffic flow problems for traffic coming off the bri ge road and heading east on Hwy. 10. The intersection and its traffic light stops traffic a proximately 1/4 mile from the end of the ramp. Traffic coming off the bridge road as w II as traffic already on eastbound Hwy. 10 would be merging and stopping at the same poi 1. Congestion on Hwy. 10 could possibly be made worse rather than alleviated. Sin e relieving congestion on the highway is a primary goal of constructing a river bridge, th western bridge alignment need to be considered carefully. Another difficulty is that the western alignment me ns the bridge road travels over more land and over two proposed roads--the highway fr ntage/business access road and the residential collector. This would require two brid es. The eastern bridge alignment requires only one overpass. Because this overpass would be close to the highway overpass, there would be less need for grade chan es of the bridge road. The western bridge alignments, in contrast, would require eithe two overpasses in addition to the highway overpass or would require that the entire ridge road be elevated for its entire length--approximately 3/4 mile. The road from th eastern bridge alignment would be less than 1/2 mile long from the river to the Hwy. 100 erpass. EXTRATERRITORIAL ZONING Regarding the traffic through the northern parts of he city, the Commission discussed the possibility of planning for the area along Co. Rd. 8 (Armstrong Blvd. NW) north of the municipal boundary in Burns Township. Staffrese ched the options for such planning. Minnesota statutes provide for extraterritorial muni ipal zoning and subdivision authority under certain conditions. A city may by ordinance extend the applica. on of its zoning regulations to unincorporated territory located within two miles 0 its limits in any direction, but not in a county or town which has adopted zoning re ations;... Any city may thereafter enforce such regulations in the area to the same e ent as if such property were situated within its corporate limits, until the county or t wn board adopts a comprehensive zoning regulation which includes the area. MN Stat 462.357 subd. 1 A municipality may by ordinance extend the applic tion of its subdivision regulations to unincorporated territory located within two miles 0 its limits in any direction, but not in a town which has adopted zoning regulations; MN Stat 462.358 subd. la (For these sections, a municipality is defined as any ity or town. :MN Stat 462.352 subd. 2) 6