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Regular City Council Minutes - 6/02/03 Page 3 and right-of-way. Mr. Soler further advised that several of the options, allowing for widening and reduction of some boulevard widths, would require additional right-of- way acquisitions. Mr. Soler advised that two critical locations were impacted, no matter which design was chosen: east of Pascal Street (back yards); and through the Lexington Avenue intersection. Mr. Soler provided daily traffic counts for vanous portions of the project area: Between Snelling and Hamline Avenues: 12,500 vehicles Hamline to Lexington Avenues: 10,500 vehicles Lexington Avenue to Victoria Street - 9000 vehicles West of Snelling: Greater than 16,000 vehicles County Road B: 7,200 to 10,600 vehicles Lexington Avenue: 13,000 to 17,200 vehicles Mr. Soler concluded that the County's request of the Roseville City Council, at this time, was to receive Council input to accomplish an agreement on the typical section in order to prepare for informational meetings to receive public input and comment; initiate right-of-way acquisitions as applicable; and compilation of that information for final design preparation. Mayor Kysylyczyn opined that there were several factors not included in the analysis for a five lane design: 1) Emergency vehicle travel from Hamline to Lexington Avenues, and from the East Snelling Service Drive to Hamline Avenue that included a disproportionately large number of emergency vehicles due to the location of those vehicles leaving the City campus; 2) Bikers usually use shoulders, not paths due to the number of accidents that occur on the pathways; 3) Whether there was enough pedestrian traffic volume to warrant sidewalks on both sides of the roadway; and 4) A configuration issue with the homes on the north side of County Road C from Pascal to Hamline