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City of Ramsey 15153 NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.W., RAMSEY, MINNESOTA 55303 · (612) 427-1410 November 2, 1992 Mr. Steve Schwanke Research and Long Range Planning MetrOpolitan Council Mears Park Centre St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Dear Steve, This is in response to our conversation today, November 2, 1992, and your subsequent fax. During our phone conversation you mentioned that the City of Ramsey had not noted, within our proposed MUSA expansion, impacts of a proposed development upon Trunk Highway #10. A review of our document notes that there are two proposed vacant residential parcels, one proposed vacant commercial parcel and existing developed industrial parcels. We don't believe that the developed industrial area will have any impact upon Highway #10. It is located just south of the Anoka Regional Sanitary Landfill and they are requesting a MUSA expansion primarily due to the concern of their employees for water quality issues. The vacant commercial parcel is shown in the document as creating 3.35 trips per gross acre theoretically on Highway #10 although this commercial parcel will not have access onto Highway #10. It will have access to the Ramsey transportation system only on a frontage road which will be completed as a result of this MUSA expansion. Of the two residential parcels, one is adjacent to Anoka County Road #5. We don't believe that this has an impact upon Highway #10 but will have an impact of 40 vehicles per day upon other Municipal and County road systems. The vacant parcel south of Highway #10 is assumed to have an impact of 440 vehicles per day. The result of the above is a total impact upon Highway #10 of 567 vehicles per day once the properties adjacent to Highway #10 are built-out. In a best case scenario, we expect that this will be by the year 1998, five years after the land becomes available for actual construction (once the infrastructure is in). We normally project, alternatively, that a project is 75% built-out within five years with the balance occurring in a much longer time frame. Therefore, once the commercial and residential parcels are fully occupied (1998+), they will have a 1.77% increase in traffic flow on Highway #10. Steve, as I had mentioned to you in an earlier conversation, the City of Ramsey is currently reviewing its zoning map with the intent of considering rezoning a significant portion of our 1200 vacant industrial acres. It seems to me not timelv to conduct a traffic analysis for Highway #10 using a zoning map which we expect wili see significant changes' during 1993. If the intent of a traffic analysis is to ensure that we are not overburdening the system with this request, then I believe that our MUSA expansion should stand on its own. It is apparent to me that there will not be a significant impact upon Highway #10 by this