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Minnesota Department of Transportation District 9 3485 Hadley /Avenue North, Box 2050 North St. Paul, Minnesota 55109 (612) 770 -2311 November 16, 1982 Mr. Joseph G. Chlebeck, Clerk City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, MN 55117 In reply refer to: 319 S.P. 6214 -42 (T.H. 49) Demont to So. Owasso Blvd. Dear Mr. Chlebeck: Your October 27, 1982 letter to Mr. Michael Marttila concerning the striping on Rice Street has been referred to me for response. We have also received several complaints about the recent striping - -from both the Roseville and Little Canada sides of the street. The cause of the complaints has to do with an apparent misunderstanding about the way in which left turns were going to be handled. The business people we have heard from apparently thought Rice Street would be striped with a two -way left turn lane similar to Lexington Avenue. While we considered that scheme of striping as an alternative, we decided against it in this case. That deci- sion was made early in the project development process and we have always intended to stripe the road as is since that time. The City of Little Canada approved the preliminary plans for this project on March 8, 1978, which showed the existing striping except in the vicinity of the Market Place Shopping Center. In that area, the preliminary plans showed a left turn lane for northbound traffic at Maple Lane. The decision was made, however, to not stripe that left turn lane, but instead, to stripe a south- bound left turn lane at the Market Place entrance. That decision was based upon expected higher turning demand for the shopping center. On a street like Rice Street with so many accesses, it is impossible to pro- vide separate left turn lanes for everyone. We felt the safest plan was to stripe exclusive left turn lanes at the major public streets and as many inter- mediate commercial accesses as possible. Below is a summary of the left turn lanes that were striped between Demont Avenue and So. Owasso Blvd.- -the area representing Little Canada's border with Roseville: Left Turn Lanes on Rice Street Location Southbound Northbound Demont Ave. (T)* X *(T) indicates a Tee intersection. An Equal Oppor. 1.. i ¶) CITY OF