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173 Mr. Culver stated the consultant is recommending the City implement the <br />174 geometric improvements and minor pedestrian improvements at Lydia in addition <br />175 to the City's currently planned C2 improvements. He indicated the City will work <br />176 with MnDOT on some additional signal timing adjustments. It is imperative for <br />177 the City to go through a larger community discussion relative to the long-term <br />178 vision of Snelling Avenue. <br />179 <br />180 Mr. Culver stated staff is planning to go to the City Council with a similar <br />181 presentation in February and see what the Council is willing to do or wants to do <br />182 but staff recommendation, at this point, is to probably let go of the Federal Aid <br />183 project and do the smaller improvements to see what benefits the City gets after the <br />184 manage lane project. <br />185 <br />186 Member Joyce asked the City could make a more concentrated effort on County <br />187 Road C interchange to build that up because it seems like Lydia and C2 are to get <br />188 out of that congestion and using that as a movement to go north. He stated if the <br />189 City is going to look at an expansion of the City Campus then he thought the effort <br />190 should be made to improve County Road C. <br />191 <br />192 Mr. Culver stated ideally County Road C and Snelling would be grade separated to <br />193 create a real interchange like what is at County Road B2. If money were not a <br />194 factor that is what the City would be looking at doing. The problem with that is <br />195 beyond the cost, there is local access on various roads so raising County Road C <br />196 would disturb the local access points close to Snelling. If Snelling were to be raised <br />197 or lowered the issue would be with the railroad and there is also a very large and <br />198 expensive high voltage power line running through there. <br />199 <br />200 Member Kruse wondered if the congestion on eastbound County Road C would be <br />201 lower if there was more capacity on Highway 36 and if the modeling would show <br />202 that being reduced at all. With the proposed improvements on County Road C, is <br />203 there any thought about putting in right turn lanes as well. <br />204 <br />205 Mr. Culver stated in order to get the double left turn lane going east the dedicated <br />206 right turn lane needed to be eliminated. He thought that was one thing that would <br />207 be problematic because of the amount of traffic turning there. He noted that is one <br />208 of the things the City would have to work through. <br />209 <br />210 Member Misra asked if the Planning Commission or any other body started to <br />211 examine the vision of Snelling or as development has been proposed west of <br />212 Snelling Avenue part of a bigger vision. <br />213 <br />214 Mr. Culver stated the Planning Commission is focused on zoning and land uses and <br />215 permittable land uses in that area. There has not been any specific conversations <br />216 about trying to reshape Snelling to something else. <br />217 <br />Page 5 of 7 <br />