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e e . ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JUNE 28,1999 13' Ms. Diane Rushenburg, 3168 Shoreline Lane, stated that she has made a few calls to the City in ordcr to gain an understanding of the easement and find out what her options are. She indicated that she is not trying to hold up the development and she is not being unrealistic. She felt that she would be foolish to sign an agreement allowing access across her property without having a full understanding of the situation and what her options are. ,'j ~"i J>.. :-;:; .-,': '4"'- . , Ms. Jody Hilgers, 1532 Briarknoll Drive, stated that she came to the meeting to hear the proposal regarding the US Highway 10 and Highway 96 intersection. She indicated that she lives at the southeast portion of this intersection and she was interested in the Council's strategy on how the Minnesota Department of Transportation' s objective to handle the traffic volume on US Highway 10 will affect the neighboring residential properties. Ms. Hilgers agreed with Councilmember Malone's comment that perhaps the City should be challenging the Minnesota Department of Transportation to do something to improve the interchange at Highway 694 and 135- W, She was concerned by the comments that the Minnesota Department of Transportation plans to do something with the Highway 694 and US Highway 10 interchange, however, no one really knows what these plans are. Consideration should be given to how much money the Minnesota Department of Transportation plans to spend on the Highway 694 and US Highway 10 interchange, the Highway 96 and US Highway 10 interchange, and the Highway 96 and 135-W interchange. The City should take a look at why it would want to encourage continued volumes of traffic through residential Arden Hills, which would decrease property values, rather than challenging the Minnesota Department of Transportation to improve the Highway 694 and 135- W interchange. Mayor Probst stated that this is what the City has been attempting to do. Within the Transportation Improvement Program, there is a process by which projects must get into this program in order to be funded and scheduled for construction. The latest document indicates that the first work scheduled for the Arden Hills area is the Highway 694 overlay. All other projects are more than 10 years out The City has challenged the Minnesota Department of Transportation to give the City some options; however, the Minnesota Department of Transportation has not looked at this situation in this level of detail. The City took on some advanced engineering work to try to understand what could happen. Mayor Probst stated that there is a lot more work which needs to be done, however, the City is not convinced at this time that it wants to spend General Fund dollars for these projects, One other vehicle which may provide help to the City of Arden Hills is the I-35W Corridor Coalition which is currently looking at I-35W and its related transportation issues, Mayor Probst stated that the people who are in the most difficult position at this time are those residents in the Mobile Home Park who were told two years ago that they may lose their homes. Councilmember Malone offered to provide Ms. Hilgers with a copy ofthe Transportation Improvement Program for her to review, He noted that the problem with this program is that, according to Federal regulations, the State cannot plan more than three years out Since the improvements in Arden Hills are beyond this limit, there is no formal plan for these projects. He