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2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, Minnesota 55113 (651)490-2200 · fax: (651)490-2275 DATE: October 24, 2003 TO: FROM: Dan Parks, Westwood Debra Blo~ty Engineer, 651- 792-7042 CC: Duane Schwartz, Dennis Welsch, Dan Soler, Marc Goess SUBJECT: Target redevelopment Plan In a 1999, State Farm insurance study, the intersection at County Road B and Snelling was determined to be one of the top 10 most dangerous intersections in the Metropolitan area. In 2000, the City had SEH complete a Traffic Conflict Study of this intersection in order to better determine the reasons leading to crashes at this intersection. The State, City, and County have been working to put together a plan for the complete reconstruction of this intersection in 2007. As a part of this project we will be implementing the action plan from this report. Attached is a copy of that report. On Thursday, October 23, we had an opportunity to review the sketch plan for the proposed Target redevelopment with Ramsey County and the Minnesota Department of Transportation and wanted to share with you what was discussed. ~ Final plans should be submitted to Dan Solar, Ramsey County Traffic Engineer, and Marc Goess, East Metro Area Manager for review and approval. Additional right- of- way may be needed for the reconstruction of this intersection, this will be detem1ined when final plans are provided. ~ The Frontage Road connection to County Road B will be closed, reliance on these for access should not be assumed in the development plan. ~ Using Mn/DOT and County Access spacing guidelines, only one full access is pennitted between Pascal and Snelling A venue. This full access can be signalized and needs to be coordinated with Hal' Mar's traffic pattems. The configuration shown on the proposed plan does not meet this requirement. ~ The County would be supportive of one or two additional Right-in Right-out driveways along this segment ofroadway. ~ Any consolidation of driveways for the fi'ontage road businesses, as shown on the preliminary plan would need to be formalized by a cross access easement. Another altemative would be that a County Road B frontage road could be dedicated to provide public access to these businesses. There are other issues that we will need to finalize regarding drainage, utilities and traffic circulation. We will discuss these as more infom1ation becomes available. Please contact me with questions.