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1�� <br />.� <br />Project Memo <br />2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, Minnesota 55113 (651)490-2200 f'ax: (651)490-2275 <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />SLJBJECT: <br />April 5, 2001 <br />City Council and City Manager <br />Debra Bloom, Assistant Public Works Director <br />CITY PROJECT M-0 1- 14 — Rice Street Pathway <br />This project memo contains information describing the proposed construction of a pathway on the west side of <br />Rice Street between Minnesota Avenue and County Road B(see attached location map). This proposed infill <br />pathway is a result of resident pedestrian safety concerns that were brought to the City's Community <br />Development Department and reflects a desire for providing non-motorized access over Hwy 36 adjacent to <br />Rice Street. This would connect residents to essential services such as groceries and pharmacy. <br />Existing Conditions <br />Rice Street is a County State-Aid Highway with an e�sting pathway along its west side, extending north from <br />Minnesota Avenue and south from County Road B. This creates a"hole" in the pathway system between <br />Nlinnesota Avenue and County Road B. The e�sting pathway north of Nlinnesota Street is 6-feet wide and <br />bituminous, while the e�sting pathway south of County Road B2 is 5-foot wide and made of concrete. <br />With a�erage daily traffic on Rice Street measured at 23,500 vehicles in 1997, non-vehicular traffic using the <br />existing pathways are forced to "trail blaze" their way along the grassy western boulevard of Rice Street, <br />between Minnesota Avenue and County Road B. This has resulted in a narrow trail of downtrodden grass in the <br />westem boulevard of Rice Street in this area during the summer, and the necessity for these residents to use the <br />street during the winter months. In light of the e�sting traffic in this corridor, there is a very real safety concem <br />for non-vehicular traffic. A public informational meeting was held on February 8, 2001, to solicit input from <br />property owners, but no one adjacent to this Rice Street corridor attended. <br />Included in this quarter-mile stretch is the Rice Street Bridge, which crosses over Highway 36. The Rice Street <br />Bridge has a narrow 4-foot wide concrete shoulder/ sidewalk on both its west and east sides. Reconstruction of <br />the Rice Street Bridge has been discussed, but neither Ramsey County nor Mn/DOT ha�e programmed its <br />reconstruction anytime in the next 5 years. To the north and south of the bridge deck, the narrow shoulder <br />between the e�sting street and guardrail is 4 feet wide. Beyond the guardrail, the ground falls away steeply. <br />The right of-way has e�sting utilities including streetlights, semifours, and utility boxes that need to be <br />considered. <br />Proposed Pathway <br />Staff considered the existing conditions for this corridor in our analysis of this proposed project. We looked at <br />the following challenges for this proposal and how they influence the altematives: <br />• E�sting pathways leading up to this segment do not meet standards and are not the same width or <br />material (6 feet to north, 5 feet to south, neither ha�e a 5-foot blvd, one is concrete the other is <br />bituminous). <br />• Steep slopes for half of the length of the segment, in conjunction with a narrow boulevard. <br />. Above ground utility features in the narrow boulevard would be difficult to relocate. <br />
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