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Mr. Rick Jopke <br /> April 23, 1998 <br /> Page 2 <br /> The City and Mn/DOT have worked,cooperatively to develop an overall concept for Highway 10 that <br /> would provide the following: <br /> A. Provide a relocated Edgewood Drive for a proposed development on the west side. <br /> B. Provide a traffic signal based on traffic volume justification from the proposed <br /> development and the community center improvements. <br /> C. Eliminate the existing Edgewood Drive and Highway 10 intersection which is relatively <br /> close to County Road H2 and has a skew angle which makes the intersection operate with <br /> problems. <br /> D. Provide a critical link in the ring road system at the south end of the concept. <br /> E. Remove some traffic from Highway 10 and provide opportunities for local traffic to <br /> travel without using Highway 10. <br /> F. Provide a direct pedestrian,and bicycle access to the community center from the area <br /> west of Highway 10. <br /> Mn/DOT reviewed and later agreed to the concept package. They encouraged the City to submit the <br /> package for cooperative agreement funding. The City endorsed the project and reviewed availability <br /> of funding for the entire package. <br /> Mn/DOT would not sign the Signal Justification Report indicating that their procedures would not <br /> allow signatures until potential funding by Mn/DOT through the cooperative agreement was finally <br /> determined. They did respond to City requests for some type of approval for the signal and other <br /> elements of the cooperative package. Mn/DOT wrote a letter to the City on November 24, 1997 <br /> which indicated a signal will be required at the new intersection. Mn/DOT was also approached by <br /> local citizens and responded in letters dated November 19 and December 29, 1997. In the various <br /> letters,Mn/DOT has indicated that the realignment would be an improvement to the area. They also <br /> indicated that the ring road will take short trips off Highway 10 and will help improve capacity at <br /> the intersections. They indicated it is likely that the new intersection of Edgewood Drive/Highway <br /> 10 will require signalization even without the ring road. Finally they indicated that they would not <br /> allow realignment of the intersection without making sure that the resulting intersection would be <br /> safe. The intersection would require a traffic signal in order to operate safely. <br /> Mn/DOT reviewed the City's cooperative agreement request and designated it as developer driven <br /> which helped to relegate it to a lower priority by the cooperative agreement review group. As a <br /> result of the review group's action, the Highway 10 and Edgewood Drive improvement was not <br /> among those projects recommended for funding. The funding requested of Mn/DOT was for <br /> 50 percent of the cost of the traffic signal plus the cost of turn lanes and median relocation on <br /> Highway 10. <br /> The City reviewed the need for the ring road based on citizen concerns over traffic which might use <br /> the ring road to reach Mounds View Drive, which would also be part of the ring road: The City <br /> apparently interpreted Mn/DOT's comments to indicate that a frontage road or part of the ring road <br /> would not be necessary to continue with the median relocation and traffic signal installation. It was <br /> so0 L Has 09TZ 06t ZT9 XVd TT:t0 11&L 86/CZ/t0 <br />