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❑ Establish a splash pad or other water-based recreational amenity in the Grow Zone or the surrounding neighborhoods for use during the summer months. ❑ Construct a grade-separated bicycle trail between the downtown area and Eagle View Elementary School along the Highway 11 corridor. Transportation Short-Term Actions (within 1 year): ❑ Perform an inventory and life-cycle analysis of all public infrastructure maintained by the City. Use this to create a capital improvements plan that provides for ongoing maintenance of public infrastructure. ❑ Adopt new standard street sections that reduce long-term costs by narrowing lane widths to appropriate neighborhood scale,accommodate sidewalks,and provide safe pedestrian mobility throughout the city. ❑ Adopt new standard road sections that reduce long-term costs by narrowing lane widths on local roads to a rustic, low volume, low speed scale. ❑ Ensure that improvements to Government Drive provide a platform for growth. ❑ Provide bike racks to encourage bike usage and storage lockers for roller blades. ❑ Create a city policy establishing when newly constructed roads will be accepted by the City for long-term maintenance.The policy should be based on reasonable assurance that the long-term maintenance costs will be sufficiently balanced by the additional tax revenue generated. Mid-Term Actions (1-5 years): ❑ Work with Crow Wing County to properly-scale the TH 371 and CSAH 11 corridors through the Grow Zone area following the construction of the TH 371 Alternate Alignment. Ensure that these corridors maintain a character that encourages pedestrian activity throughout the Grow Zone. � Infrastructure Short-Term Actions (within 1 year): ❑ Perform an inventory and life-cycle analysis of all public infrastructure maintained by the City. Use this to create a capital improvements plan that provides for ongoing maintenance of public infrastructure. ❑ Establish an availability charge for properties that have access to municipal infrastructure but have not yet connected. Mid-Term Actions (1-5 years): ❑ When city vehicles are retired,ensure that their replacements can function effectively within a dense downtown served by neighborhood-scaled streets. ❑ Establish a Wellhead Protection Overlay District to regulate the installation of wells and the establishment of uses that could threaten the aquifer within the wellhead area. Pequot Lakes Staff Report September 18,2014 5