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Attachment B L Wheeler Street Closure Request y February 20, 2013 The City of Roseville developed a Traffic Management Program (TMP) to assist in addressing citizen concerns regarding traffic in their neighborhoods. In 2012, the City received a petition from your neighborhood requesting the permanent closure of Wheeler Street at County Road D. This request is being considered by the city as a 2013 Traffic Management Program construction project. To find out more about this program and the proposed project, you are invited to an information meeting on: Thursday, March 7, 2013 6:00 p.m. Roseville City Hall 2660 Civic Center Drive We hope you will be able to attend. If you are not, please consider sending an e-mail or calling to provide your thoughts. Staff is working on design alternatives and cost estimates. Information presented at the meeting will be posted on the TMP webpage the following day. How will the project be paid for? For Traffic Management Program projects, the City of Roseville pays 25% of the construction and installation costs of major strategies while the benefited area is responsible for 75% of the cost. The benefited area is those properties expected to receive the majority of the positive impacts from the proposed traffic management strategy. You are receiving this notice because your property is within the benefited area for this improvement. For this project, the benefited area has been identified as all those properties with frontage on Wheeler St, Shorewood Curve, and Shorewood Lane north of Lydia and south of County Road D. Information regarding the proposed assessments will not be ready until the meeting. How does a Traffic Manaaement Proaram protect get approved? Staff will use the information gathered from the public input meeting to complete the project design and prepare a feasibility study. The feasibility study will be presented to the City Council and they will hold a public hearing to consider the proposed project. All property owners in the benefited area will receive a formal notice of the public hearing, expected to be held in April. At the hearing, the findings of the feasibility study will be presented and property owners will have an opportunity to speak to the City Council about the proposed project. After the public hearing, the City Council will vote on whether the project should move forward. If approved, staff will prepare construction documents for the project to be built during the 2013 summer construction season. Project Contact: Debra Bloom, Roseville City Engineer (651) 792 -7042 deb.bloom(a)ci.roseville.mn.us For more information: http:// www. cityofroseviIIe .com /trafficmanagement