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9 <br />Keats Avenue Access <br />Background <br />•MnDOT already had a separate project programed Keats <br />•Heard from many folks from the community the desire to make changes at this intersection <br />•Opportunity to streamline improvements to both intersections with one project <br />•Reviewed from an environmental, financial, property impacts, traffic analysis, and a constructability front. <br />•Recommended in late 2024 to combine the two projects to help streamline costs and impacts to the traveling <br />public. <br />Recommendation <br />•Move forward with frontage road extension and closure of Keats Ave <br />Alternative Option to Consider <br />•Revert back to the 2024 layout which a cul-de-sac frontage road <br />•Leaves Keats Ave as-is <br />•MnDOT’s $3,000,000 funding for this portion of the project goes away <br />•City’s cost share of the project anticipated to stay similar.