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ll 71 To: Steven Sarkozy, City Manager .T From: Steven D. Gatlin, public Works Director RE: STATUS of COUNTY ROAD c BIKEWAY/WALKWAY PROJE cT, -9 3-1 Date: November 1 , 1993 During the past several weeks, we have been working on the county g Road c pathway project. Attached is a copy of the oct ober 21, 1993 , memo I prepared to the file summarizing recent meetings with Met Council staff. The memo outlines five alternates for possible consideration .for the pathway project* A meeting was held with MnDOT technical staff representing the programming and planning and bikeway sect-ion to discuss our list of alternatives6 The purpose of the meeting was to seek some direction from MnDOT as to which alternatives were feasible, It is also proposed that the alternatives be discussed with the council at the November 15, 1993 , work session. Following the meeting with MnDOT officials and the city council, we must meet with the Met Council Funding and Programming Committee on Thursday, November 18 , 1 9 9 3 . At that time, we will inform therm of our anticipated project schedule and any proposed amendments to the original project application. The original project included a continuous multi-use trail along the south side of county Road c from Cleveland to Rice, the trail was intended to meet minimum federal design- guidelines of 8 feet of trail width and 5 feet of boulevard width Following is a summary of MnDOT staff comments regarding each of the f ive alternatives 1. Redefine trail as multi-use west of Victoria and for pedestrian use only on the section east of Victoria MnDOT felt this was a significant change in project scope and represented a loss of continuity by eliminating the multi-use feature east of Victoria. Since the trail is no longer multi-purpose, they felt this would disqualify the project for funding and we world be forced to re-submit for new funding*