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Memorandum To: Hugo City Council From: Rachel Juba, Community Development Director Date: April 17, 2025, for the City Council meeting of April 21, 2025 Re: Discussion on 165th Street AUAR Study 1. BACKGROUND: The 165th Street corridor is primarily gravel between Highway 61 and Elmcrest Avenue. The road will need improvements, including paving, due to development pressures, anticipated increases in traffic volumes and the need for traffic from the south to have better connections to a collector street. East of Highway 61, there is also pending development. While this road section is paved, there is a need to extend the City’s sewer and water infrastructure to this area. The 2025-2029 Streets CIP has 165th Street between Highway 61 and Elmcrest Avenue. Although there is a temporary solution for paving 165th Street, the 2040 Comprehensive Plan identifies 165th Street as an urban section minor collector road (pavement, curb, and gutter) from Elmcrest Avenue to Highway 61 with a future trail making connection to the Hardwood Creek Regional Trail. There have been questions about whether the design of the road should be reevaluated. With the development of the comprehensive plan there was a high-level analysis of land use and projected infrastructure improvements that guides development. This is a growing area and the infrastructure needs to be improved and extended for development. There are many natural resources that reduce the area that can be developed and makes it hard for certain infrastructure improvements. The work for the 2050 Comprehensive Plan will start next year, but there is likely some work that needs to be completed earlier due to increased development interest. There are a few items that have also been identified that influence land use planning, road design, and sewer and water planning. First the Met Council stated that they are not planning a fixed line transit corridor along Highway 61 and that transit in the area will likely be mirco transit or transit on demand. The 2040 Land Use Plan guides land at the intersection of 165th Street and Highway 61 for Industrial, High Density Residential, and Mixed Use (50% high density residential and 50% commercial). With this change the land use and infrastructure should be evaluated and will not be planned for a transit corridor. There are other areas for land use and infrastructure that should also be evaluated with an environmental assessment and natural resource constraints. Second, there have been questions about water supply in the area. The 2040 sewer and water plans anticipate eventually serving eastern Hugo in the future, outside of the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA). In other words, the size and capacity of the utilities planned in this area can accommodate serving eastern Hugo with City sewer and water. This puts some burden J.1 and J.2