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Council). Only after that submission did Metro Transit write the City a brief letter seeking the City's support for the project and site. On October 7, 2003 the Lake Elmo City Council directed the City Staff to communicate the Council's objections to locating a Metro Transit Park -and -Ride at Keats/1-94. See Exhibit 5 — the letter addressed to Metro Transit outlining the City's bases for objecting to the Keats/1-94 park -and -ride site then proposed. As far as the City can determine, Metro Transit did not either share that letter with the MPO (Metropolitan Council Transportation Advisory Board, in this case) or include that letter (along with the letters of support from the City of Minneapolis and City of Woodbury) in the CMAQ application documentation. On February 18, 2004 the Lake Elmo City Council directed its staff to submit a letter to the Metropolitan Council Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) Programming Committee again detailing Lake Elmo's objections to the Keats/1-94 park -and -ride site. The Lake Elmo staff did so (see Exhibit 6 for the February 18, 2004 letter), and also attended the February 18, 2004 TAB Programming Committee meeting. During that Programming Committee meeting Nacho Diaz, Metro Transit General Manager, stated to the Programming Committee that if Lake Elmo did not want the park -and -ride in its City, Metro Transit would find another location. The City understands that the Park -anal -Ride Facility Site Location Plan is considered to be a component of the Transportation System Plan, and therefore the reasonableness of the Park -and -Ride Plan can not be questioned by the City. The City notes, however, that no alternative site (to the MnDOT "pond" site) has been identified, and many of the objections by the City to locating such a facility at Keats/1-94 remain valid.