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City of Little Canada Utility Line Burial Policy 1. Introduction The City of Little Canada has overhead utility lines throughout the city. When reconstruction projects are proposed for streets with overhead lines, the City should evaluate if the lines are to be buried or not. That evaluation should recognize that each case is unique, but the following criteria will guide the evaluation process: 2. Streets to be Considered Due to the excessive cost of utility line burial and the cost of obtaining an engineer's estimate from Xcel Energy, the City will only evaluate County State Aid Highways. City streets will not be considered for utility line burial due to the low benefit received in comparison to the cost of the estimate as well as the burial work. County State Aid Highways in Little Canada have a lot of traffic, including regional traffic, and the City would like these streets to have more curb appeal. Rice Street from County Road B to County Road B2 was reconstructed in 2010/11. Utility lines were buried as part of this project in a cooperative project with the City of Roseville. Phase II of the Rice Street project is anticipated to commence in 2016 and the utility lines are scheduled to be buried as part of that project. The City is again splitting with the City of Roseville. Future Rice Street phases will be evaluated in conjunction with the Cities of Roseville, Shoreview, and Vadnais Heights to see if the utility lines should continue to be buried along the Rice Street corridor. Other County State Aid Highways to be evaluated are Edgerton Street, Little Canada Road, County Road C, Centerville Road, and County Road D. Little Canada Road was evaluated in 2012 and it was decided that it was cost prohibitive to bury the utility lines as part of the Little Canada Road reconstruction project planned in 2013. Given the high cost for that segment of road (over $800,000 from 1 3