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Department Approval: <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Manager Reviewed: <br />�.l� � <br />DATE: 1 0/23I00 <br />ITEM NO.: F-4 <br />Agenda Section: <br />Reports/Recommendations <br />Item Description: Request for authorization to solicit Request for Proposals for the County <br />Road C Urban Design Master Plan <br />Background: At the July 24, 2000 meeting, the Council directed staff to solicit proposals from <br />landscape architecture consultants to prepare an urban design master plan for County Road C. <br />As part of its capital improvements program, Ramsey County plans to reconstruct County Road <br />C, from 135 W to Oxford Street (just east of Le�ngton Avenue). This project is proposed to be <br />constructed in two segments -- I35W to Snelling Avenue in 2001 and Snelling Avenue to O�ord <br />Street in 2002. This project is partially funded with federal transportation monies that must be <br />encumbered no later than 2002 and 2003. This reconstruction project and the scope of City <br />involvement was discussed at the July 17, 2000 City Council Worksession. <br />County Road C is an important east/west arterial serving Roseville. Because it provides access <br />to major commercial, industrial and civic properties, it is considered by many to be Roseville's <br />"Main Street". Numerous large land use changes are currently being contemplated along County <br />Road C, including the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area, the Tower Place Redevelopment Area <br />and Roseville's City Center. These changes, along with the County's proposed street <br />reconstruction project, present an unique opportunity to upgrade the urban design elements of the <br />County Road C corridor commensurate with its community significance. The first step in <br />implementing such a change is to develop an overall urban design master plan for the County <br />Road C corridor. <br />Proposals were solicited from seven consultants. Proposals were submitted by the following four <br />firms. Copies of each proposal are available in the Public Works Department: <br />Bonestroo, Rosene Anderlik and Associates <br />Dahlgren, Shardlow and Uban, Inc. <br />SRF Consulting Group, Inc. <br />URS (BRW, Inc <br />