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the city and low road volumes, this approach is appropriate. The Plan notes that the City should continue to monitor bicycle and pedestrian safety as part of its transportation planning for public safety, especially when planning maintenance and improvements to local roads. Gem Lake has one future elements of the Regional Bicycle Transportation Network (RBTN) a Tier 1 Alignment, an extension of the Bruce Vento trail. Freight The Plan is consistent with Freight policies of the TPP. The Plan identifies two rail corridors which run north/south through the community. There are no truck, barge or intermodal facilities in the community and no commercial or industrial nodes that generate freight movements. Transp o rta do n Analysis Zones (TAZs) The Plan conforms to the TPP regarding TAZ allocations for the seven TAZs in the community. The City's TAZ allocations for employment, households and population appropriately sum to the Metropolitan Council's citywide forecast totals f or al forecast years f rom 201 0 through 2 04 0. Water Resources Wastewater Services Reviewer: Kyle Colvin, Environmental Services (ES) — Wastewater Planning and Community Programs (651-602 1151 ) The Plan conforms to the 2040 Water Resources Policy Plan (WRPP), It represents the City's guide for f uture growth and development through the year 2040. It includes growth forecasts that are consistent with the CounciI's assigned forecasts for population, households, and employment, Current wastewater treatment services are provided to the city by the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES). Wastewater generated within the city is conveyed by Council Interceptors 7122, 1-VH-423: and 1-VH-423A. All wastewater generated within the city is conveyed to, and treated at, the Metropolitan Treatment Plant in St. Paul. The Plan projects that the city will have 144 sewe red households and 490 sewe red employees by 2040. The Metropolitan Disposal System with its scheduled improvements has or will have adeq uate capacity to serve the City's growth forecasts. The Plan provides sanitary flow projections in 10-year increments. The rationale forthe average day flow projections is given in the Plan and determined appropriate for planning local services. The Metropolitan Council is committing to provide the level of wastewater service based ❑n the sewered forecasts as stated in the sewer element of the Plan. The Land Use Plan reflects an overall minimum residential sewered density that is consistent with Council policy far future sewe red residential growth for Suburban communities. The Plan states that there were 75 existing homes within the city according to 1970 census data which represents approximately one-third of the current homes within the city, some of which may be connected to the sanitary sewer system. No evaluation of these services has been conducted by the city to determine their susceptibility to III. The city is provided regional wastewater service 73 through numerous connections either directly or indirectly to regional interceptors creating individual services areas too small to accurately measure on an on -going basis. Due to this situation the impact of wet weather events and cycles cannot be precisely quantified and therefore, the city cannot determine the impact of I11 on the collection system. The Plan outlines previous efforts to inspect and mitigate I11 within its system, and outlines activities that include sump pump inspections, manhole structure inspection and rehabilitation and flow metering to further identify and eliminate sources of I11 in the public collection system and estimates the cost of these efforts at $323,000. Each pipe section within the city is scheduled to be inspected every 10-ye ars. The plan also identifies a continuation of a public education program that discourages the connection of sump pumps, foundation drains and roof leaders to the sanitary sewer system. The Plan does not attempt to describe the sources, extent. or sig n ifican ce of existing III within the public or private