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Existing Highway 10 Accesses g Y • Currently there are four accesses onto Highway 10 north of the Highway 96 interchange. The first access is a right-in, right-out only design and is located approximately 500 feet north of Highway 96 along the northbound segment of Highway 10. The access serves the TCAAP site however, it has not been used recently and based upon discussions with Mike Fix representing TCAAP,the Army would not object to eliminating this access. In order to construct the access ramps for layouts#2 and#3, this TCAAP access would need to be removed. The next access is a full crossing of Highway 10 which serves TCAAP,the Big Ten Supper Club,Arden Manor Mobile Home Park and several single family homes. This access would need to remain until the Highway 96/10 Triangle and TCAAP are redeveloped. This access is located approximately where the traffic model assumes that the future Gateway Boulevard intersection/interchange would be located. The next access is a full crossing of Highway 10 which serves Scherer Bros. Lumber Company and the TCAAP site. This access needs to remain in place until the Scherer Bros. property redevelops unless a connection could be made to the access directly south. Mike Fix of TCAAP has indicated that the TCAAP site would not object to closing this access. Any frontage road connection to the south would need to cross the Minnesota Commercial Railroad spur line which currently runs between the Scherer Bros. property and Arden Manor. 0 The final access is a full crossing of Highway 10 which serves the TCAAP site only. Mike Fix has indicated that this access needs to remain as long as the TCAAP site is operational. Gateway Business District Access The Gateway Business District GBD is located along the western side of Round Lake between Highway 96 and Interstate 694. The district includes several existing commercial businesses with the imminent development of several hundred thousand square feet of office/warehouse and office space planned in the near future. The GBD is served by West Round Lake Road off of Highway 96. Access to and from the GBD from the north, south and west is generally served by Interstate 35W. Access to and from the GBD from the east (including St. Paul) is served by Interstate 694, Highway 10 and Highway 96. Based upon the Twin Cities Regional Travel Model, it is anticipated that approximately 35% of workers and customers visiting the GBD will originate from or depart to the east. This equates to approximately 900 round trips per day after full build out of the GBD. In layouts#2 and#4, no access is provided from Highway 96 eastbound onto Highway 10 southbound which will reduce the convenience of some of the people headed to points east. The loss of the "south ramps" for trips arriving at GBD from the east is less significant since travelers can follow Interstate 694 to Interstate 35W northbound and exit with free right turns at Highway 96 and Gateway Boulevard. It is likely that a large percentage of trips arriving at GBD from the east today utilize Interstate 35W in lieu of Highway 10 to avoid left turns at Highway 96 and • Gateway Boulevard. 13