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regular City Council eating and ay, July 23, 2007 Page 46 turn lanes were much more necessary to College expansion that trig- gering asignal at Lydia and Fairview, which was not indicated by College expansion on its own. Mr. Schwartz noted that based on pro- j actions for campus expansion, improvements at Snelling and Lydia were triggered almost immediately. Councilmember Pust clarified with Mr. Lindgren that it was consistent with the College's understanding that their expansion would immedi- ately trigger improvements to the intersection of Snelling and Lydia and funding for those improvements. 1VIr. Lindgren advised that it was the College's intent to pay their pro- portionate share. Councilmember Ihlan noted comments from Engineer Dan Soler of the Ramsey County Public works Department regarding the intersec- tion of Lydia and Snelling that without campus growth, background growth would indicate little impact to traffic. Councilmember Ihlan questioned the City's jurisdiction for a County road; and assurances that the I'~.TD Agreement could make such traffic mitigation a condi- tion. Councilmember Ihlan further questioned cut-through traffic if a signal were installed at Lydia and Fairview and negative impacts to those immediate neighborhoods and residences. Councilmember Roe opined that mitigation recommendations would actually improve the level of service at the intersection; decreasing the time to process through the intersection, and hopefully decreasing ad- vantages for traffic seeking alternatives to cut-through. Additional discussion included travel demand measures implemented by the college to discourage use of cars; need for students to work on or off campus; and other options being explored to manage travel de- mands.