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1. The 2030 Metropolitan Council Water Resources System Plan specifies that regional sewer service will be provided to the City via the WONE Interceptor and (the majority) by the Cottage Grove Interceptor. Both of those regional sewer service entrance points to the City are located along the City's south border — along Interstate 94. Map. W-7 of the Lake Elmo System Statement, by the geographic location of the Developing Community map designation, clearly assumes regional sewer service to enter the City via the Lake Elmo Interceptor at the City's west border. The Lake Elmo Interceptor is not an element of the 2030 Metropolitan Council Water Resources System Plan as it once was. It is logical for the City's Developing Area designation to be along its south border where the regional sewer will enter the City rather than extending west across the City from its west border where the Lake Elmo Interceptor will no longer provide regional sewer service. 2. The MOU (Paragraph #3) specifically references "..urban (sewered) area south of 10a' Street.", and regional sewer service to the Cimarron neighborhood and the Old Village Neighborhood (Paragraph #7). Both of those geographic areas are located within the south/central area of the City, not the west portion of the City where the Developing Community designation appears on Map W-7 of the System Statement. The Developing Community designation for Lake Elmo should be consistent with the map appearing as Exhibit 3. Issue in Dispute #3 The Lake Elmo System Statement, on Page T-2, paragraph 5, and on Page T-3, paragraph 3 specifies transit facilities that Lake Elmo is expected to address in its Comprehensive Plan including park -and -ride facilities for Metro Transit. The last sentence of the Page T- 3 paragraph states: "Demand for future park -and -ride spaces was identified in the Park - and -Ride Facility Site Location. Plan in the area of I-94 and Keats.". The noted Facility Plan was only prepared and adopted in 2005, but the Metro Transit focus on a facility at Keats and I-94 extends back to 2003 and earlier. The City's concerns with the final location of a park -and -ride in the Keats/1-94 area extend that far back in time as well. A 2003 CMAQ application by Metro Transit proposed a 500 car park -and -ride in Lake Elmo at the northeast corner of I-94 and Keats (between Hudson Blvd, service road and the freeway off -ramp). That CMAQ application specified that the site was MnDOT owned land (which it is), and therefore, would be available to Metro Transit at little or no cost. The CIvIAQ application also stated that the City of Lake Elmo had been contacted had indicated its "preliminary approval" of the park -and -ride plan, CMAQ application, and site. There were two major problems with those statements by Metro Transit in its CMAQ application documentation: 1. The park -and -ride site designated in the CMAQ application in Lake Elmo was (and still is) 99% open water — a MnDOT surface water storage pond. 2. The City was not consulted in any manner prior to the submission of the CMAQ application for the "Lake Elmo Park -and -Ride" to the WO (the Metropolitan