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( Mayor's Report August 16, 1994 On August 3, I attended the meeting to discuss planning activities for the I- 94 corridor at the Fortis building in Woodbury. The meeting had been called by State Senator Laidig, State Senator Price and Representatives Neary and Pearit. The meeting was attended by representatives from Afton, Lakeland, West Lakeland, Woodbury, Oakdale, Maplewood, Ramsey and Washington Counties, the Metropolitan Council, Representatives Neary and Pearit as well as myself. The discussion was facilitated by Bob Hume, an executive of the H.B. Fuller company and Chair of the Washington County Cost Effective Operations Commission. The introductory remarks related to the need to plan for the future in making the 1-94 corridor an environmentally attractive, economically healthy neighborhood, as against accepting helter skeiter development. We then saw a video presentation of a planned development in Fairfax county, just outside Washington prepared by the Urban Land Institute. This showed how a developer had created an attractive office/shooping and residential neighborhood in a planned development of land that had been held for some ten years. The individual Cities then described their long term planning interests in the corridor, followed by comments from the various commissioners and Met Council staff. The program was well covered in local newspapers. At the end we were asked to express interest in continuing this type of discussion. It was disappointing to me that neither Woodbury, Oakdale nor West Lakeland representatives felt that continuing these meetings had merit, as their plans were already too well advanced to permit adjustment. So, it was an interesting evening, it improved local communication, but whether there will be a long term effective interaction will depend on the continued interest of the organizers and the Met Council in reaching a coordinated plan for the area. On August 9, I attended the preconstruction discussions on the reconstruction of County Road 10 at the Washington County Public Works building. The main contractor is Forest Lake Contracting. The road was closed yesterday August 15, and work started on placing the silt fences for dirt removal on the North side. The contractor plans on working an average 11 hour workday from 7a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m. 5 days a week with occasional Saturdays. Detailed plans for the reconstruction are available at the City Office. The project is expected to be completed late in 1995.