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Transportation System Statement-- Arden Hills Key Changes in the Plan The revised Transportation Policy Plan adopted by the Metropolitan Council in December 2004, is the metropolitan system plan for airports and transportation with which local comprehensive plans must conform. This system statement summarizes significant elements of the metropolitan system plan and highlights those elements that apply specifically to your community. In addition to reviewing this system statement, your community should consult the entire Transportation Policy Plan, the 2030 Regional Development Framework and other pertinent regional planning and policy documents, including the Aviation Policy Plan, to ensure your community's local comprehensive plan and plan amendments conform to the metropolitan system plans. A PDF file of the entire revised Transportation Policy Plan, the 2030 Regional Development Framework, the Local Planning Handbook and other regional planning and policy documents of the Metropolitan Council are available online at the Metropolitan Council's Web site: http://www.metrocouncil.ore/planning/framework/timetine.htm. The Aviation Policy Plan, adopted in 1996, is not available electronically, but a copy can be obtained by contacting the Metropolitan Council's Data Center at 651-602-1140. The revised Transportation Policy Plan incorporates the following changes: • The planning period has been extended from 2025 to 2030 • No significant increase in the level of transportation funding was assumed. • The expenditures shown in the Transportation Policy Plan must be constrained by the level of funding that is anticipated. However, the revised plan also examined two alternative scenarios — what could be built if highway revenues were increased by 30% over the next 25 years, and what it would cost to provide enough additional capacity to hold congestion to the 1998 levels. • The highway expansion projects shown in the plan have changed little since the 2001 plan, due to this lack of additional resources. (See Fig 4-11 for highway expansion proposals.) Metropolitan Highway System Plan investment priorities no longer contain the "Improvements" category. Most improvement corridors are now designated "Management" corridors. • The new investment timing provisions are contained in the Plan. Table 4-11 contains projects in Mn/DOT's Highway Work Plan (scheduled in 2009-2013) construction, reconstruction, and bridge replacement greater $10 million. Table 4-12 contains Regional Priority Project to move into the 10 -Year Highway Work Plan, if there are resources available in the 2005-2009 time period. • Funds have also been allocated to obtain right of way for new crossings of the Mississippi River between NW Hennepin and Anoka Counties and of the Minnesota River in the vicinity of Chaska. Construction dollars for these projects are not foreseen before 2030. • Chapter 5 contains new policies and procedures on managing the scope, cost and revenue sources of projects to insure that sufficient resources are available to implement the region's transportation priorities as shown in this plan. This includes procedures to manage the use of T-1