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Vt.?je: �� i 95d Varna* 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 wuw.ci.iittle- canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Greg Schroeder, Public Works Director DATE: January 4, 2002 RE: I -694 Architectural and Aesthetic Design Guidelines Committee Update MAYOR Michael I. Fahey COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Jim LaValle Matt Anderson Rick Montour ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson The I -694 Architectural and Aesthetic Design Guidelines Committee has been meeting since September 2001 to develop an architectural and aesthetic design theme for the I -694 corridor. The corridor extends from the Mississippi River Bridge on the west to the I -94/I -494 interchange on the east. The architectural and aesthetic design selected will provide a theme that will be reflected in the appearance of bridges, railings, fences, retaining walls, and noise walls constructed throughout this corridor. In addition, the architectural and aesthetic design selected will be able to be modified slightly to reflect the individuality of each city that these structures are built in. The Edgerton Street Bridge is part of the overall project, "Unweave the Weave ", the reconstruction of the I -35E and I -694 interchange. As you my recall, the Edgerton Street Bridge reconstruction is the first bridge along the corridor to be designed and constructed, and is currently scheduled for letting in May 2003. Several key aesthetic design decisions will have to be made early in the planning process in order to provide enough detail to complete the design of the bridge and accommodate this schedule. It should be noted that this date has been slipped from 2002 as a result of profile /real estate impacts for this project. MNDOT is looking at the possibility of raising the profile (elevation) of the new Edgerton Street Bridge 2 to 4 feet higher than the existing bridge. This profile raise is a result of the size of the support beams needed for the new bridge and the final road surface elevation of I -694 under this bridge. If this bridge is raised 4 feet it will require the raising of the County Road D /Edgerton Street intersection. In addition, it will raise the profile of Country Road D 500 feet in both directions, as well as, raise the profile on Edgerton Street 500 to 1,000 feet to the south. A possible benefit of raising Edgerton Street is that it will enhance the possibility of a Little Canada trail under Edgerton Street by the power lines to the south. As a side note, the Unweave the Weave project is currently schedule to start in 2005 and go through 2007 and the Rice Street Bridge over 1 -694 is cun-ently scheduled for reconstruction in 2004 through 2005. H:AOregSV[ -694 Architectual & Aesthetic Design.doc