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Washington County has established access management guidelines <br />for urban (areas within the 20 -year MUSA boundary) and rural areas <br />(areas outside the MUSA boundary). Washington County access <br />management guidelines are displayed in Table 8-7. Washington <br />County requires permits for new driveway access to county roads <br />and when land uses change at a site adjacent to a county road. <br />Washington County typically requires that new access points meet its <br />guidelines; however, the county can make exceptions to the guidelines <br />with sufficient justification. <br />The City of Hugo does not have access management guidelines for <br />City streets. The City evaluates new and modified accesses to its City <br />streets through a permitting process on a case-by-case basis. <br />It should be noted that there are existing access points that do not <br />meet County and MnDOT access spacing guidelines. In many cases <br />these access points were established prior to agency access spacing <br />guidelines. In other cases, the agency has granted an exception to <br />the existing guidelines. As roadways are reconstructed, each of these <br />agencies generally works to modify and/or relocate access points that <br />do not meet current access spacing guidelines. <br />Table 8-6 (cont): MnDOT Access Management Manual (Table 3.2 — Summary of Recommended Street Spacing <br />for Non-IRCs) <br />5A Rural 1/2 mile 1/4 mile See Section 3.2.5 <br />5B Urban/Urbanizing Minor 1/4 mile 1/8 mile 1/4 mile <br />Arterials 300-660 feet, dependent upon block <br />5C Urban Core 1/4 mile <br />length <br />6 Collectors <br />6A Rural <br />6B Urban/Urbanizing <br />6C Urban Core <br />Collectors <br />7 Specific Area Access Management Plans <br />7 All All <br />Table 8-7 Washin <br />1/2 mile 1/4 mile <br />1/8 mile Not Applicable <br />300-660 feet, dependent upon block <br />length <br />By adopted plan <br />See Section 3.2.5 <br />1/4 mile <br />1/8 mile <br />Private residential driveways No direct access No direct access Variable Variable 13> Variable <br />Commercial driveways or non- No direct access No direct access 1/8 mile 1/8 mile Variable �3> <br />continuous commercial streets <br />Non -continuous residential streets No direct access 1/8 mile with no 1/8 mile 1/8 mile Variable <br />(4) median opening <br />Continuous local streets and 1/2 mile 1/4 mile 1/4 mile 1/8 mile 1/8 mile <br />collector streets <br />Minor arterials 1/2 mile 1/2 mile 1/2 mile 1/2 mile 1/2 mile <br />(1) Distances shown are minimums. The county reserves the right to increase the minimum distances based on other criteria. The type of traffic control, turn lanes and bypass lanes required <br />are determined based upon the projected traffic volumes on the type of access requested. <br />(2) ADT is the 20 -year forecast for average daily traffic. <br />(3) Spacing is based on criteria such as sight distance, speed, traffic volumes, etc. <br />(4) Cul-de-sac or short -length streets (less than'/2 mile) that do not cross a county highway. <br />2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE DRAFT Dec14-17 TRANSPORTATION 178 <br />for review only <br />