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• • DRAFT — Goals and Strategies Lino Lakes 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 6 Roads and Transportation Goal 1: Plan of Lino'' Lakes. 'ovem v Strategies: 1. Include within the Comprehensive Plan a 20 -year transportation component (Roads and Transportation Master Plan) that will identify and plan for needed public transportation options and street construction, upgrading, and related funding requirements. 2. Ensure by 2030 that main east/west corridors (examples: Main Street, new 35E/35W, Birch and Ash Streets) are of good quality and allow for potential, required expansion and upgrades, i.e., widening, expanded capacity and turn lanes. 3. Identify and prepare appropriate plans, official controls, zoning and subdivisions ordinances and regulations, and official maps for land use around identified potential future interchanges. (An example might be exit ramps from 35E at Birch Street if warranted). 4. Plan for, within the transportation component of the Comprehensive Plan, improved and required north -south connectivity. 5. Work to connect neighborhoods by minimizing the use of cul -de -sacs. e as p Strategies: 1. Identify potential traffic safety problem areas and adopt plans to lessen risks as traffic volume increases along these problem stretches and intersections. ease Strategies: 1. Plan, within the 20 year traffic component of the Comprehensive Plan, for an expanded and improved road system to accommodate projected increases in traffic volume accompanying predicted/planned growth and development. 2. Encourage high - density housing along our traffic corridors; e.g., County Road J, East end of Birch and Main Street. Add needed stop lights and turn lanes. Increase connecting and collecting roads — plan ahead for them. 3. Ensure, as areas are developed, that development bears the cost of this reconstruction to the fullest extent possible. 4. Develop mass transit options.