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was hired by the City to review the 1988 plan and make recommendations concerning the appropriate alignment excess right-ot-way that should be vacated and the design ot Twin Lakes Parkway and resolve associated utility issues. Attached is the copy of the report recently completed by BRW. The report recommends that the location of Twin Lakes Parkway, west of Fairview Avenue be changed to line up with the existing 35W ramps. This recommendations follows numerous discussions with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Rice Creek Watershed District, and others concerning the ability of the City to relocate the existing interchange further north of the existing DNR protected wetland. Based on those discussions, BRW and City staff determined that the ability to move that interchange to line up with the proposed location of Twin Lakes Parkway would be nearly impossible because of new State wetland protection laws. The proposal would also result in a design which does not meet Federal transportation standards. The City would also have to bear a majority of the cost for the interchange relocation. The new alignment would require the City to purchase all of the Cummins Diesel and Metro Paper/Weyerhauser site, and portion of the Extra Leasing, Indianhead, Hyman Freightway, and Twin Lakes Corporate Center land. The strategy here is to use City TIF, State and road funds and assessments, and assessments to acquire and improve the Industrial Business Park roads and property access rather than donating funds to MnDOT to correct their road ramps. The Study will request MnDOT to improve the existing ramp by correcting the "decision point - County Road C east or west" and expanding the capacity of the ramp at MnDOT expense. BRW also studied and made recommendations concerning construction of utilities including sanitary sewer and water, as well as regional storm water holding facilities. The report proposes that a major new regional storm water facility be constructed from the DNR protected wetland on MnDOT property, northerly to and including a small portion of the south part of the Centre Pointe project site. Finally, BRW reviewed the actual design of the road right-of-way and has recommended that the right-ot-way be limited to 90 teet in width and that other parallel streets be vacated to make more land available for development. Meeting with Businesses: The City staff held a meeting with business and property owners on October 3, 1996. Issues which were identified included: 1. Many businesses are in the process of making long term business decisions and need to know what the final alignment will be soon. 3