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City of Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ________________________________________________________________________ 74 Streets A rectangular grid street system has been established in Mounds View. The major exception to this grid system is County Highway 10 that cuts through the city on a diagonal from the northwest to the southeast. This results in angled intersections on County Highway 10. The City of Mounds View will work with Ramsey County to ensure that when County Highway 10 is reconstructed in the future that more efficient use of the right-of-way will occur. No major street expansion projects are necessary or anticipated in the future. Some street extensions may occur to allow subdivision and development of existing large deep lots. Some street reconfigurations and traffic calming installations may also occur to manage traffic. On-going street maintenance and reconstruction will be required. Functional Classification: Functional classification is a system to establish the hierarchy of streets that collect and distribute traffic from residential neighborhoods to the metropolitan roadway system. The Metropolitan Council has established a functional classification system for the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Classifications of streets in Mounds View include principal arterials, A minor arterials, collector roadways, and local streets. The major characteristics of each of these classifications are summarized in Appendix C on page 116. The functional classification of roadways in Mounds View is shown in Figure 13 on page 76. In Mounds View there are two roadways classified as principal arterials. These are Interstate 35W and State Highway 10 (former US Trunk Highway 118). A- minor arterials include County Highway 10, Old Highway 8, and Silver Lake Road. Collector roadways include County Roads H, H2, and I, Long Lake Road, and the portion of Red Oak Drive north of County Highway 10. The remaining roads are classified as local streets. Jurisdiction: Roadways are also defined by the jurisdiction that has responsibility for the roadway. Figure 14 on page 77 shows the current jurisdiction of the roadways in Mounds View. In recent years functional jurisdiction of roadways has changed as street functions have been reevaluated. Portions of County Road H-2, County Road I, and Spring Lake Road will change from county roads to city streets in 1999. In 2000 the jurisdiction of Highway 10 in Mounds View changed from the Minnesota Department of Transportation to Ramsey County.