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Informational Material for August 7, 19811 Meeting Page 3 many rounds of discussions, the City of Lake Elmo eventually concluded ( that having CSAH designation on 50th Street would be a benefit to our citizens as well as Oakdale's citizens. This CSAH designation would make available additional funds for improving and upgrading 50th Street. Before this exchange of CSAH designations between Lake Elmo and Oakdale was to take place, we requested the County to petition the State for additional CSAH road mileage in the County that could be applied to this stretch of 50th Street. At the time of this request to the County, we felt our chances of getting additional mileage to very limited. I am pleased to inform you that this request for additional CSAH designation in Washington County has been approved by the State This means that Oakdale can have the CSAH designation applied to 50th Street and Lake Elmo can continue to keep its CSAH designation on DeMontreville Trail. This section of 50th Street will now be prioritized into the County's five-year Capital Improvement Program. Therefore, improvements may be a year to two down the line before they are realized. 10. In the past few months, the staff has had a number of questions from the Council regarding the building material placed on the Tri-Star land owned by Mr. Rossow. The sta f has reviewed this situation and has notified the Department of Transportation about the location of this building material; and NSP about the location of this building material in relationship to its powerline easement. Neither agency seems very concerned about this building material. The City has no section in the City Code that restricts the placement of future building material on any property. Now, if he starts to use that material without obtaining a permit, that is a different story and we can enforce sections of our building code to require obtaining permits before construction begins. At this point in time, there is nothing the City can do to prohibit the placement of this building material on this area of land. 11. Attached is a letter from the Metropolitan Council indicating that the Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan amendments have been approved . We will be reprinting the Comprehensive Plan later this year. Additionally, to address some of the comments in the letter, we have already indicated our concerns and displeasure about the aviation rules; the surface water management is done by VBWD; it is difficult to offer moderate cost housing with no sewer and 1-112 acre lots (excluding Cimmaron); and everyone should be able to have solar access on 1-112 acre lots. Therefore, we have addressed the concerns listed from the Met Council; we simply have not agreed with their approach to solving some of these potential question areas. The Planning Commission is still looking at the proposed future plan for the I-94 corridor and the staff is awaiting any final decision from the Planning Commission (this would also get bought to the City Council agenda) before reprinting this Comprehensive Plan. Approval to reprint the Comprehensive Plan was received from the City Council in 1983. 12. Attached for your reference and information is an updated City ( Directory for staff members, commission members, the volunteer fire department and general directory of area businesses and commonly called agencies. r