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impacts on adjoining properties. To aid in your consideration of this statement, a median in front <br />of commercial properties needs to be a minimum of 60 feet in length on each side of the tracks. <br />A median abutting residential properties needs to be a minimum of 100 feet in length on both <br />sides of the tracks. Because of those factors, County Road B2 became the best choice in terms of <br />manageable impact to adjoining property owners. (Note: County Road B was the other option, <br />but the required 100 foot median on the east side of tracks would have cut off a residential <br />driveway.) <br />If you look at Attachment 42, you can see that we would add a 100 foot median on the west side <br />of the tracks that cross County Road B2 and a 60 foot median on the east side. The west median <br />does not impact any properties. The east median had a minor impact on turning movements to <br />the property owned by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. However, the City Engineer feels <br />they are reasonable given the nature of traffic accessing that building. <br />If we add the four gated crossing at Woodlyn and medians to County Road B2, the estimated <br />cost of the project drops to $1,406,566. Our out-of-pocket costs reduce to $126,566. Another <br />advantage of this approach is should future ratings require additional median installation to <br />maintain Quiet Zone ratings, we can add those at that time. Given we are already exceeding the <br />bonding money allocated by the legislature; those costs would be ours regardless of timing. <br />Staff is looking for ratification of our recommendation to install four -gated signals at <br />Woodlyn and medians on County Road B2. <br />cc: Dave McKenzie, SEH <br />Michael Thompson, Maplewood City Engineer <br />