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NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING/WORKSHOP HIGHWAY #47 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA A meeting was conducted on Tuesday, March 19, 1996, with concerned neighbors relating to the Highway //47 study, in the Council Chambers, Ramsey Municipal Center, 15153 Nowthen Boulevard NW, Ramsey, Minnesota. Present: Councilmember Sheila Beyer Councilmember Kenneth Peterson Councilmember Gerald Zimmerman Cyrus Knutson, MnDOT Denny Eyler, SRF Traffic Consultant Jon Olson, Anoka County Engineer Dennis Berg, Anoka County Commissioner Benjamin Deemer, Planning Commission City Administrator Ryan Schroeder City Engineer Steve Jankowski CALL TO ORDER Councilmember Peterson called the meeting/discussion to order at 7:03 p.m. City Engineer Jankowski - This meeting is to discuss some detailed plans for Trunk Highway #47 from County Road #116. We will keep this very informal. Last summer we did some subdivisions along #47. We had a public hearing and some comments made were about how much subdividing was going to go along #47 and what we are going to do to #47 itself. Maybe we should do some planning for the vision for #47. We hired SRF with the expertise in planning to assist us. We contacted a representative of MnDOT and asked Anoka County to participate. There's been talk about MnDOT turning #47 over to the County. 1) Look at #47 and figure out accesses, deficiencies, and traffic counts and way out vision for//47 as to what it will need to look like so it could be used as a planning tool. We have heard the major concerns at informational meetings. This report has been available for review at City Hall and at the library. Next Tuesday will be a formal public hearing and, depending on the comments, our consultants will address them and it will be presented to Council. The more we can address before we get to the public hearing the better. There are two issues: 1) the residents in proximity of 149th Avenue proposed plan calls for construction of 149th up to Sunwood Drive - doing that west "S" alignment. The report has indicated a number of properties that will need to be taken. Karyn Peters, 14820 St. Francis Boulevard NW, Ramsey, - We like the recommendation of property purchase. We have a five-acre parcel. Our entire life style would be altered. We have horses. We would have two busy roads on each side of our residence. This creates more danger for kids and pets. This causes major concern for all of us. Mr. Jankowski - There were some questions about time frame. Within this report, we had presented a recommendation for short term actions. Medium and long term actions in one short term action was to facilitate a policy as to how we will deal with acquisitions. It is not necessary to acquire them but to develop a policy to do so. This may not occur for at least eight years. Denny Eyler - There are a number of properties that front #47. They need to be acquired for the #47 project. There is a question of which will come fa'st - the widening of #47 or the connection to Sunwood Drive. The time table was based on the volume. It would be nice if the money was Neighborhood Meeting/Workshop Highway #47/March 19, 1996 Page 1 of 9