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��������Y <br />��o��H <br />INSTITUTE <br />Toll Free 866.900.3064 Fax 866.924.1928 <br />Memorandum <br />Date: February zz, zo�z <br />To: Crow Wing County Highway Department <br />From: Charles Marohn, Pequot Lakes City Planner <br />Re: County State Aid Highway �� <br />At their February 16 meeting, the City of Pequot Lakes Planning Commission reviewed the County's <br />proposal for improvements to CSAH 11. Various questions from the County Highway Department were <br />also reviewed. The following is preliminarv feedback on the proposed project and questions from the <br />County Highway Department. The Planning Commission will continue to review the project at the <br />March 14, 2012 meeting. A representative from the County is welcome to attend the meeting to <br />answer any questions the Planning Commission may have. <br />Function: The primary function of this segment of CSAH 11 is to provide a framework for capturing value <br />from the local land use pattern. The primary function is not moving traffic at speed. East of the future <br />TH 371 alignment, the primary function becomes moving traffic at speed — it is important that this <br />corridor remain a safe and efficient highway for high-speed automobile travel -- but west of the future <br />intersection, the movement of traffic at high speeds is counterproductive. <br />Capturing Value: The City of Pequot Lakes has made some enormous investments in — and has some <br />very large obligations for long-term maintenance of— infrastructure within its core downtown. In order <br />to make sufficient use of these investments, the transportation system within the core downtown needs <br />to provide a platform for capturing value. <br />Street segments, including CSAH 11, must provide for a complex, town environment. We must <br />accommodate the movement of traffic as well as the sudden stopping and turning of cars, the parking of <br />cars, safe interaction with pedestrians and bikers as well as a community ambiance that has a <br />recreational destination feel. For this level of complexity, automobile traffic must be slow and must <br />share priority with other modes of travel within the public realm. <br />WWW.COMMUNITYGROWTH.COM WWW.STRONGTOWNS.ORG <br />