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August 24, 1988 Mayor Fahey and City Council Members Little Canada City Council Little Canada City Hall 515 E. Little Canada Road Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 Your Honor and Council Members: This letter is in reference to the Little Canada, Centerville Road improvements. Specifically, the manner in which this entire project has been handled. Road construction of this degree is never convenient or timely under the best of circumstances. What disturbs me, however, is the lack of support the City of Little Canada has given the local businesses and area residents. From the beginning when the Centerville Road project went from a 2 week project to an 8 week project (and currently still incomplete), traffic has been routed and rerouted without benefits of; detour signs, street identification signs (no sign on corner of Centerville Road and Little Canada Road), speed reduction signs for those residents along Noel Drive and Labore Road who had to absorb the increase in traffic, and very little advance public notification of impending road closings. After repeated calls to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, their recommendations included installing our own detour signs, which were promptly removed. It would seem the City of Little Canada would automatically see to it those items be apart of all development agreements between the City and contractors awarded bids. Additionally disturbing is the lack of public information regarding road closings. At our expense, and those of other local businesses, a detailed map was published in the local suburban paper. I do not necessarily feel it is the area businesses responsibility to notify the public of pending road closures, and construction. Those people aren't just our "customers ", they are also residents.