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6. TRANSPORTAnON.PLAN The preparation of the transportation component of the Comprehensive Municipal. Plan of. Gem Lake is based principally on goal number 5 (Chapter 3) which indicates the desire of the community to cooperate with other units of government in .- obtaining a mutually high level of community services. Recognizing that most of g Gem Lake's residents conduct most of their work, shopping, culturaland educational, and recreational activities outside of the City limits, the quality of the transportation system outside of the City is important. In addition to serving goal number 5, the transportation plan of Gem Lake is also intended to indirectiv serve on goals 1. and 2 which call for a high quality man-made and nature] _- environment within the City limits. The Existing Roadway System The most important component of the transportation system within Gem Lake for the foreseeable future will be. the street and highway network which will accommodate both private and public motor vehicles. The functional classification and jurisdictional responsibility for maintaining this sytem i 9 and 10. s summarized in Tables Arterials. The most heavily traveled arterial route through the community is U.S. 61 which serves as a major artery connecting Gem Lake with. White Sear Lake and the more intensively developed portions of the metropolitan area to the south. The facility connects with the Interstate beltway loop U-494, 694) around the Twin Cities at a point approximately one mile south of the community corporate limits. The only other arterial within the community is County Road E which €orms part of Gem Lake's southern corporate limits. The facility intersects with U.S. 61 in the southeast portion of Gem Lake, serves the southern portion of White Bear Lake to the. east, and connects with J__ 5M located approximately 1/4 mile west of the western corporate limits of Gem Lake. This latter facility is the only "principal" arterial near the City. Collectors. Collector streets include LaBore Road on the western corporate Boundary, Goose Lake Road located in a southwestern -northeastern orientation near the northern corporate limits of the community, and Otter Lake Road located in the northeastern portion of the community. Local Streets. The remaining roads within the community can be classified as local serving principally adjacent land uses. These local streets comprise approximately 44 percent of the total roadway mileage within the community. 38