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of City streets generally serving as service roads to the expanded TH 371. The alternate route is shown to cut through Derksen Road. MnDOT will need to make provisions to "reconnect" the east side, or dead-end side, of Derksen Road back to the rest of the City street system. In the Draft EIS stage, they showed a service road going southwest into the spray irrigation field and connecting to the southern intersection with the present TH 371. The alternate route will cut off the south end of the curb and guttered Morehouse Drive. There is a possibility that Morehouse Drive could be __ nnected to Schmidt Way that connects to Old 371. However, please at Schmidt Way is only a gravel road at present. Heading orth, the alternate route is shown to cut t ugh Farm Road. 9 99 MnDOT will need to make provisions (service r o such) O connect" the east side, or dead-end side, of Tree Farm R back to the rest % e City street system. V. In the downtown area, we would expect to see\ esert TH 371 as a "turn back"from MnDOT to Crow Wing ounty. Relate this, the City should not be surprised if CSAH 11 west of the t TH 371 ( nd Front streets), as well as CR 112 from CSAH 11 nort G temate ro 371, become "turn backs"from the County to the City. ad is that re "turned back" in this manner are generally im roved to an re. up ' ition, or funds provided for this purpose, at t wnership nges ` As future devel rogr \ses east fr e downtown core and around the alternate route, the a\ t ropo d three intersections will be focal points for nuati the et system. Not too unlike the present situatii On A00/f/f/I y is to ma hink a alternate route as the Mississippi River in Brainerd,"," the propo ' three intersections being the bridges over the Mississippi r. Brain i has four bridges; one on Mill Avenue north of the City, one on T 0/W ..{ ington Street, one on Laurel Street, and one on College Road. 1 `✓ ants to go from one side of the river to the other, no matter which City s et it starts out on or which City street it ends up on, sooner or later, that traffic as to make its way to one of these four streets that cross the river. ➢ How will access to the Business Park be provided? Present access to the Business Park is, one way or another, off of Old 371. Old 371 is accessed from the south at the Hwy 371/Derksen Road/Old 371 intersection, from the west via Hwy 371 and Morehouse Drive, and from the north via the CSAH 11/CR 112 intersection. Joint Council and Planning Commission Work Session 2 June 5, 2007