pf_00523 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

f � � October 1, 1969 CAS E NO: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: � �� 523-69 Minnesota Highway Department Snelling Avenue from County Road C to Hamline Avenue Consideration of Design Study PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. At previous meetings with the Planning Commission and the Highway Depart- ment we have reviewed various proposals for the handling of Snelling /�venue frorr. Cour�ty Road C to Hamline Avenue. In the past, suggestions have in- cluded interchanges afi County Road C-2 at its present alignment, possibilities for interchange at C-2 somewhat south of its present afignment, and other proposals suggesting no interchange at C-2 but an overpass at County Road C-2 nr Lydia Avenue. At the lasfi meeting when the plans were reviewed overlays prepared by the village ' indicated various possibil ities for interchange movements approximately central between the proposed interchanges at County Road C and Hamline Avenue. Following review of those plans,the Commission requested that we meet with the Highway Department i-o consider the merits of an interchange verses the possibif ity of having only an overpass between County Road C and Haml ine Avenue. 2. This week your village engineer and planner met with representatives of the Highway Department to review these questions. It appears that the developmenfi of an interchange can most readily be accompl ished dt Lydia Avenue. However, the interchange will,of course,be very close to Hamline Avenue to the north. With some justification, there is considerable reluctance on the part of the Metropolitan Council (and the Highway Department) to construcfi interchanges at a half • ile interval as would be the case here. (n the overall, the deleterious eFfects ot ;�ighway traffic to the residential areas involved is minimal if we simply have a straight forward service road system connecting interchanges at County Road C and Haml ine Avenue. Th is creates a difference of sl ightly over a mile between the interchanges with a motel approximately half way between. Considering the implications and problems involved in constructing any iriterchange_ between County Road C and Hamline, there appears considerable merit in uti�izing the simpler� solution with merely an overpass at Lydia. The larger scale drawings and overlays will be available at the meetingto further discuss the merits of this proposal .