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MAYOR Michael I. Fahey COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Jim LaValle Matt Anderson Rick Montour 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 551174600 ADMINISTRATOR (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 Joel R. Hanson www. ci.little- canada. mn. us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: December 14, 2001 RE: 2002 Improvement Projects /Status of Neighborhood Meetings Neighborhood Meetings were held this past Monday and Tuesday for the following projects: • Market Place Drive (Little Canada Road to Edgerton) • Ryan Drive (Country Drive to Ryan Lane — to replace heaving areas) • Sextant (McMenemy to East End) • Stark Street (Old County Road C to DeMont) • Eli/Desoto (Labore Road to Centerville Road) A draft feasibility report covering these projects is enclosed with your agenda materials. Due to the short time span, I have not completed the neighborhood meeting minutes as of yet. However, the highlights of each meeting are as follows: Market Place Drive • Two property owners were present (out of five impacted). Both supported the project. Bob Grootwassink of Market Place Center was one of the parties present and would like to see the project done. • As you know, the key factor for this project is the realignment of Market Place Drive with County Road C2 in Roseville. This will create a larger parking lot in front of the shopping center and also result in the roads in this area becoming public versus their current private status north of First Bank Drive. • Storm water retention ponding is being planned for in the southeast corner of the current shopping center parking lot. • We will also be relocating utility lines to facilitate the construction of the 35 -unit addition to Garden Terrace. (This is a City cost and will be recovered through the sale of the land for the addition to CommonBond Communities, Inc. • A key aspect needing more investigation is the timing of the streetscape work to be done in conjunction with this project. Street lighting can be done in 2002. However, it may be advantageous to wait for paver brick work and landscaping until 2003. We learned on Little Canada Road that we are better off bidding the streetscape work under a separate contract rather than including it in the road project due to the substantial savings. If we follow this approach, we are better off waiting until 2003 to allow the road project to be completed rather than try to coordinate multiple contractors in the job site at one time. If we wait until 2003, Page 166