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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—March 10, 2008 14 It was the consensus of the City Council to add two additional Design Constraints to the Ramsey County Project, Section 11, Grade Separation of Highway 10 and County Road 96. The first one is building into the process the noise mitigation driven by the grade separation. The second design constraint is the addition to capture the pedestrian crossing on the side that any bridges are being built. Mayor Harpstead stated that the document will need to come back to the Council and they would review it again at the worksession on March 17, 2008. Councilmember Grant stated that under City Project. the first three bullet points talk about phasing but phasing is not talked about again in the document except a slight mention in Design Constraint #3. He also stated it needs to be noted that all the phasing needed to be cost effective and this may be another design constraint. Councilmember McClung stated that the signalized intersection needed to be added as well. Councilmember Holmes agreed that the signalized intersection needed to be a separate design constraint. Councilmember McClung stated that it should be noted that the City's preference would be to have a signalized at grade entrance into TCAAP along the Highway 10 diagonal. Councilmember Holmes disagreed with it being the preference. Councilmember McClung stated that it should be strongly considered. Mayor Harpstead asked for clarification if this was considered an end point or phasing. Councilmember Holmes stated that it could be considered both ways. Councilmember McClung stated that this would need to be a higher priority and something that the City would have to push for. Councilmember Holden stated that Design Constraint #1 reviews the phasing options to see if all four ramps are needed, and Councilmember Grant had brought up that if there was half a diamond with the interchanges on the east then there would not be a need for legs on the east so it wouldn't be a full interchange. She stated that she thought the Council had agreed that it could work with just the exit and entrance ramps on the east side. Mayor Harpstead stated that this was complicated by the traffic pattern of commuters that are west bound on County Road 96/North bound on Highway 10 and the opposite in the evenings. The second element has been the semi truck traffic from Scherer Brothers. Mayor Harpstead would like Design Constraint#4 to include wording about phasing.