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FEB 15 '90 15:00 T K D A & ASSOC., INC. ENGINEERS ARCHITECTS PLANNB198 February 15, 1990 Honorable Mayor and City Council Lake Limo, Minnesota Re: 15th Street Improvements Lake Elmo, Minnesota Commission No. 9492 Dear Mayor and Council P.3 ATTACTIENT 1 TOLTY, KtNO. DUVALL, ANOOR80N AND ADEOOIATSS, INCORPORATED 2090 AMERICAN NATIONAL DANK BUILDING SAINT PAUL. MINNEBOTASBIDt et9n9¢r+oo PAX 0191290.0000 During the public inquiry portion of the February 6,1990 Council meeting, questions were raised as to the necessity of improving I ft Street and to the history of its initiation as an MSA project, Since I was not prepared to respond at that meeting with all of the facts, the Mayor asked that I prepare this letter for the record. The recommendations to improve this road and seek MSA designation was initiated by me, as City Engineer, in about 1986. The road was in poor condition from school buses and truck traffic:, The City bad spent considerable time and funds patching the blacktop and filling ruts. In the spring of 1988, the road was closed due to these severe conditions, The road functioned as a through street and not a local street. Improving the street with just local funds would be virtually impossible. For these masons, and with the Council concurrence, I inquired of Elmer Morris, District State Aid Engineer, if the City could designate this road as MSA. He said the road could not because it did not tem-dnate at a State Aid Road (Inwood Avenue was a County Road) and 15th Street was not shown as a "collector" on the City's Transportation Map in the Comprehensive Plan, In 1987, the City submitted a request to Washington County to designate Inwood Avenue as a County State Aid Highway and requested the Metropolitan Council approve a revision to the City's Transportation Plan Map. In 1988, the County and the Metropolitan Council approved the City's request, In 1989, the City re -applied for MSA designation and based upon the previous County and Metropolitan Council actions, 15th Street was added to the MSA system. On May 2,1989, the City held a public hearing and subsequently ordered the project, TKDA was instructed to perform surveys, prepare plans, and assist with right-of-way acquisition, Construction will take place in the sununer of 1990.