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xC w <br />February 18, 2004 <br />Chair and Members <br />TAB Programming Committee <br />Metropolitan Council <br />Mears Park Center <br />St. Paul, MN <br />Dear TAB Programming Committee Members: <br />RE: CMAQ/STP Funding Application #CM-11-03 <br />I-94 East Park & Ride Lot <br />At its Regular Meeting February 18, 2004 the Lake Elmo City Council directed <br />the Acting City Administrator to attend the February 18, 2004 TAB Programming <br />Committee meeting to advise the Committee regarding the inaccurate representations of <br />fact made in the subject funding application; the total lack of coordination between the <br />applicant and the proposed host city (Lake Elmo); and, the City's basis for objecting to <br />the project proposed by Metro Transit for CMAQ funding. <br />Inaccurate Application Representations <br />1. Page 2 of the application, under the heading "Type of Work" fails to identify site <br />acquisition as a project component. We can only assume that this relates to <br />numbered paragraph # 2 on Page 16 of the application where the applicant states <br />that ,"...there is verbal consensus to permit Metro Transit to use Mn/DOT right of <br />way at the park and ride site." We take this to say that a site will be provided to <br />Metro Transit by Mn/DOT at no cost. Please note that the only Mn/DOT right of <br />way at the subject intersection in Lake Elmo of a size sufficient to accommodate a <br />park & ride project of the proposed scale is a storm water holding pond. Any <br />other site that would be substituted at this interchange location (either in Lake <br />Elmo or Woodbury) would be commercially zoned, and valued by the present <br />owner in excess of $150,000 per acre. Land acquisition will be a component of <br />this project, if the project is constructed at this interchange location. How would <br />this added project expense impact "cost effectiveness" reported by the applicant <br />for emissions and congestion reduction — and resultant project ranking score? <br />2. Page 5 of the application (Paragraph #6) addresses coordination of the application <br />with "affected communities". While the stated definition of such coordination is <br />