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community would benefit from a strong, informed and supportive Chamber of <br /> Commerce promoting an expansive vision of Downtown Pequot Lakes and not a vision <br /> narrowly defined by the existing highway corridor. <br /> In an age and time when planners, developers and shoppers across the country and the <br /> region are reawakening to the benefits of a pedestrian-oriented destination downtown, <br /> Pequot Lakes is the only community on the Highway 371 corridor that can easily create <br /> this environment. The big challenge to making this a reality is building a consensus <br /> vision and then working together to make it happen. <br /> Finally,the Chamber argues that"Wa of both routes is equal in the long term" This is ostensibly - . Ito,rmatted:Font:(Default)Georgia, <br /> based on statements by Mn/DOT that both alignments are equally safe, While this is true because pt <br /> both alignments will meet Mn/DOT safety criteria there is little question that the complex series of <br /> local streets controlled turning movements and managed intersections envisioned with the expansion <br /> of the current alignment would create a much greater potential for safety issues off of the highway Formatted:Font:(Default)Georgia, <br /> system These issues do not exist or could be more easily addressed with the Alternate Alignment____,- to pt <br /> Formatted:Font:11 pt <br /> Pequot Lakes Downtown Plan—Updated December 2007 9 <br />