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to I-494, eliminating the need for some of its residents to shop in Oakdale. Oakdale has shopping malls on either side of CSAH 10, just west of I-694. The mall to the north failed as the "Oakdale Outlet Mall" and was mostly vacated a second time in anticipation of demolition in favor of a Walmart. This transfer was cancelled and the mall remains largely vacant. Across the street to the south, a mall is anchored by Rainbow Foods and K-Mart. The K-Mart has never generated traffic anticipated by its parking lot, and the parking lot at the Rainbow has seen a dramatic drop in traffic since a new Rainbow was built 4 miles to the south in Woodbury. In April 1993, all the land inside the MUSA on the south side of CSAH 10 from Helmo Ave to Inwood has been changed in the Future Land Use Map from Urban Office Commercial to Low Density Residential since being annexed from Lake Elmo to Oakdale. The land outside the MUSA was shown on the Lake Elmo Future Land Use Map as 3 acre residential. Oakdale is suggesting a golf course. The net result will be reduced traffic increase on CSAH 10. Traffic: The Spring 1992 AADT on CSAH 10 between Helmo and CSAH 10, measured by Strgar, Roscoe, Fausch was about 3,800. The September 1992 AADT measured by the State of Minnesota was 4,650. Both traffic counts were omitted from Figure 1 CSAH 10 AADT Counts and Trend Line in the S-R-F Study prepared for the County. Instead, a 20 year projection for CSAH 10 traffic growth from CSAH 13 to Helmo is provided by extrapolating 8 earlier counts starting with 2,900 in 1980 and ending with 5,100 in 1990. The 2000 count is projected as 8,600 and 2010 as 11,500. This is easily within the upper limits of a two lane road, especially if additional turn lanes are provided. However, the actual projection should not include traffic counts when construction projects on County 14, Fourth Street, or I-94 were diverting traffic to