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transportation system in the area with the completion of Twin Lakes Parkway from Terrace Drive- Fairview Avenue west to Cleveland. To date, construction has been completed on Lincoln Drive from Lydia to County Road C (including improvements at Snelling Avenue and County Road C-2), Arthur Street, and Terrace Drive, between Snelling Avenue and Fairview Avenue (which will become a portion of the Twin Lakes Parkway in the future). In 1988, an independent traffic study for the area prepared by Barton-Aschman Associates indicated that County Road C would experience increased retail traffic loads and would exhibit significant traffic problems at key intersections in the future. An alternate east-west route (Twin Lakes Parkway and Terrace Drive) was recommended within the area in part to carry additional retail development traffic and in part to carry existing Business Park traffic directly to the Interstate Highway entrance ramp area. This proposal would reduce the amount of traffic which currently uses residential streets to enter the freeway at County Road D. Another problem area for traffic congestion, turning movements, safety and capacity is on Cleveland Avenue where the 1-3 5W ramps intersect. This intersection is about 600 feet north of the intersection of "C" and Cleveland. Therefore, the Transportation Plan calls for the development of Twin Lakes Parkway as an east -west collector street connecting 1-3 5W on the west with access to Cleveland Avenue, continuing east to a new "right-in, right-out" intersection with Snelling Avenue. In 1997 the City contracted with the consulting firm ofBRW to evaluate the design and location of the proposed Twin Lakes Parkway and its connections to 1-35W, BRW also evaluated stonn sewer needs and designs for the western portion of the area. The Twin Lakes Parkway was "officially mapped" and approved by ordinance on October 26, 1998. In 2000 the City began its due diligence for the roadway by completing environmental site assessments in the Right-of-Way area. The Phase I and Phase IT assessment work is funded by a US Environmental Protection Agency grant in the amount of $200,000, and will be completed in the fall of 2001. The functional classification of the roadways in the Twin Lakes Area are as follows: Principal Arterial Interstate 3 5W (existing; ramp redesign and expansion and increased capacity depends on MnDOT approvals and funding) Minor Arterial County Road C (existing) Snelling Avenue (existing) Collector Cleveland Avenue (existing) Fairview Avenue (existing) Twin Lakes Parkway (new) 9