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Request For Proposal Twin Lakes Master Plan Renewal August 15, 2000 1. Scope of Work The City of Roseville is seeking a proposal from a qualified team of urban design, transportation, and environmental planners to assist in the completion of the following: 1.1 an update to the Twin Lakes Master Plan (policy plan) to be named "The Twin Lakes Renewal Strategy--Years 2001 to 2011" 1.2 a graphic interpretation of recently completed financial scenarios 1.3 a Minnesota Environmental Quality Board Alternative Urban Area-wide Plan Review (AUAR) associated with the plan. 2. History of Planning Process Twin Lakes Business Park lies within the City of Roseville, Minnesota, and is bounded approximately by Cleveland Avenue, County Road C, Snelling Avenue, Langton Lake and oakcrest Drive (refer to map attached). It is composed of 275 acres, of which 165 remain to be redeveloped. The business park was formerly part of a multi-company large truck terminal site. In the 1970's over 20 trucking companies had their terminals in Roseville. In the late 1980's and early 1990's the truck terminals and trucking companies gradually left the site because of deregulation and consolidation or to find larger terminal locations. Today the area is considered a tremendous opportunity for redevelopment; the area is also an environmental brownfield area. The original plan (attached) for the Twin Lakes area was written in 1988. It proposed new office and retail uses as well as technical industrial uses. This plan also projected the need for a new east-west road that would connect Snelling Avenue with Cleveland Avenue, allowing businesses within the Twin Lakes area to gain access to either north- south roadway as well as County Road "C", the primary east-west route adjacent to the park. In 1996-1997 the City completed a realignment of the Twin Lakes Parkway and an amendment to the Master Plan and City Comprehensive Plan, moving the proposed right- of-way south 800 feet to align with the Interstate 35W ramp. The roadway cross section was refined to be a 80 to 90 foot wide, three lane road with a fixed median _deft turning lane, trail, landscaping, andlighting:A Minnesota Environmental Assessment Worksheet (attached)was completed on this. project. According to the-BRW traffic modeling study, the ramp itself will need additional safety and capacity work. It will be widened to allow more lanes entering and leaving the site. The cloverleaf ramp in the southeast quadrant would be -removed to provide more space for ramps and exit lanes. A lane parallel to Cleveland, from the ramp exit to County Road C. would be constructed, allowing exiting traffic heading south and west adjacent to southbound Cleveland Avenue. 3.0 General Background - City of Roseville Twin Lakes Renewal Strategy August, 2000 1 of 9