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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 08, 2011 Page 24 on today's traffic and current levels of operation. Related to whether County Road C-2 should be vacated, Ms. Bloom advised that staff was not prepared to make that recommendation, based on the inability to clearly dictate what the fu- ture may hold. Ms. Bloom noted that there may be a future need for pedestrian connections and utilities, depending on redevelopment at Hamline and Woodhill; but that currently staff was not looking to vacate that 175'. An unidentified member of the audience requested a definition and meaning of the term "vacating." Mayor Roe responded and reviewed a situation when the City retains the right to use a strip of land for road right-of-way, or utilities; and continuing to retain that right. Mayor Roe noted that one option would be to vacate a right-of-way by re- turning the property back to adjacent property owners and giving up the City's right to build a road on it; or retaining a utility easement. Mayor Roe noted that by vacating the City's right to use the land for a future road, it would give up that right for good; and if not, the City could retain the right-of-way for potential use in the future. Mayor Roe questioned Ms. Bloom as to staff's recommendation on whether to continue designating County Road C-2 as an MSA road; and impacts to continu- ing to do so or not to do so. Ms. Bloom responded that staff would need to research monetary impacts to the City in whether to continue designating it as an MSA road; advising that the por- tion could be undesignated. Ms. Bloom advised that state aid encouraged removal of non-existing road segments from the state system, and the City could consider doing so; however in the City's overall management of the state aid system, 25% of the City's total road miles could be designated, and sometimes segments of a road were designated as state aid roads. In the City's overall road grid system, Ms. Bloom advised that another segment would need to be identified to maximize the City's piece of the pie, since the City currently had approximately 1.5 miles of undesignated state aid roadway mileage, based on that 25% state allowance. Ms. Bloom noted that the current intent was to hold that undesignated portion in re- serve for County Road B west of Cleveland Avenue, which Ramsey County would like to turn back to the City. Mayor Roe questioned if that section of County Road C-2 east of Cleveland Ave- nue in the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area was designated MSA> Ms. Bloom responded that it was an MSA route in that location; but had been re- moved to facilitate Langton Lake Park, as well as due to road flooding and other problems, and thus removed from the state aid system.