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Work Session Item: II A Date: 1/14/�02 l�i � Memo 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, Minnesota 55113 (651)490-2200 fax: (651)490-2275 DATE: January 10, 2002 TO: Neal Beets, City Manager ll �j� FROM: Debra Bloom, Assistant Public Works Director SUBJECT: 7anuary 14, 2002 7oint Work Session with Lauderdale City Council Proposed Trunk Highway 280 Reconstruction 6:OOpm at Roseville City Hall At the August 21 joint work session, the Councils directed staff to work with Mn/DOT to investigate the proposed TH 280 reconstruction in more depth. It was agreed that neither City wanted to lose the federal funds dedicated for the proposed project. There were certain questions asked by the Councils that we were asked to consider; What is the long-term plan for TH 280? What are the alternatives for access at Broadway? How are private properties impacted? Can we equally distribute the impacts? Representatives from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Lauderdale, Minneapolis, and Roseville have been meeting since August. We have retained Glen Van Wormer, a traffic engineer with Short Elliot Henrickson, to provide technical assistance with our evaluations. This Highway 280 Corridor Study Team has had considerable discussions regarding the staging of the corridor reconstruction. The federal funds are enough to reconstruct the TH 280 pa�ement from Hwy 36 to just south of the Broadway Street intersection and implement some safety improvements. They are not adequate to finance an interchange. However, any new alignment should take into account the firture plans for the corridor. If the Councils can reach a level of comfort with one of the interchange alternates, the State can move forward with their development process for the Phase I project, which would be within the confines of the Federal funding and lea�e the signals in temporarily. The team does not anticipate the implementation of a Phase II- interchange construction until after redevelopment of the PaCal property is completed, a timeframe of 5 to 10 years. Subsequent Phases of construction would include the upgrade of the Larpenteur and Como interchanges. Attached to this memo is report from SEH regarding the corridor, a Broadway interchange alternate comparison, and e�ibits showing the 4 alternates. We ha�e also included the information presented at the August 21, 2001 work session. The anticipated outcome of this work session is to give the State guidance on these alternates, and share the Councils vision of the future of TH 280.