Minutes - Council - 03/19/1996 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Mr. Raudio - Asked about the City setting its priorities. Mr. Jankowski - Replied that the City has submitted a letter to Anoka County. Mr. Raudio - Asked what the letter entailed. He wanted to know if C.R. #5 and T.H. #47 were in the plan. In 1979, the City came and asked for the right-of-way on T.H. #47 - 75' for the State and 75' to the County for the bridge crossing. There was cooperation between the County and between the City in getting bridge across and working with the City. Now - Rick Foster and I (Raudio) do not have access to almost one half of the commercial property because of C.R. #5. We cannot develop that property. If you look on the highway study, since 1979, that was a dangerous intersection. The County got the 30' to help correct that and the State hasn't done a thing. The State delayed work that should have been done on the north end of T.H. #47. The people of Ramsey are getting taken. It has cost the citizens of Ramsey hundreds of thousands of dollars by not getting that property developed. I (Raudio) am willing to discuss this at any time. I am really disturbed about what's happening on that County Road #5. Some of you sitting here may be the ones who are killed on T.H. #47. It's getting to be a tragic situation on #47. All I am trying to do is figure out priorities. Councilmember Zimmerman- Art Raudio and Rick Foster own property on the east side of #47. They need to get an alignment of #5 and g47 squared away so they can develop their property. Mr. Raudio - Would like to meet with the County and the State. The County has been very cooperative but the state has not. If the City feels #47 is a priority, the citizens feel that way and so does the County, then maybe the State will "turn up their ears". It's a dangerous piece of highway. There will have been some way to get funding for this. It takes everyone's cooperation but we have to decide our priorities. Jon Olson - The County has done a way out of where we think #5 should be aligned with #47. It's available for review. We have reviewed it with the State Aid engineer. Our intentions are to submit that project and the next available funding year for cooperative agreements is 1998. It's not for sure we would get funding. That does not mean that it should hold up development on the east side of #47. Mr. Deemer - They cannot have either access proposed until the State realigns the road. Rick Foster - They have paid a quarter million dollars in taxes and assessments for the land. We could have fixed the intersection for that. Jon Olson - It would cost about $1 million to do that. Ben Deemer - C.R. #5 and T.H. #47 are the next priority but the State has another priority and that's to straighten 180th north to redo the bridge on Trott Brook. We need to re-prioritize. He would just as soon see overlay applied to the eight miles first. Cyrus Knutson - The project we have planned is to put in mm lanes and lights at various locations. If we spend our money in one area, it does not help the problem all the way. Steve Jankowski - Some funding is for bridges alone. Some right of way had to be purchased for turn lanes. Cyrus Knutson - The engineer is working on something right now. Bill Dom - When will the road get turned back to the County. Neighborhood Meeting/Workshop - Highway #47/March 19, 1996 Page 3 of 9