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Pequot Lakes Hwy 371'Alternate Route Joint Committee of the City Council and Planning Commission June 5, 2007 Submitted by Tim Houle and Mike Rude, Widseth Smith Nolting According to the schedule of questions laid out earlier in this process, WSN/City Engineer was to answer five questions related to impacts to City infrastructure investments. Our comments on these five questions come from a broad engineering perspective as opposed to a finite, design-level analysis. The Committee may also want to hear from the City's Street Superintendent and WaterNVastewater Operator on these questions from maybe a more operational perspective. The Committee may also want to hear from its Planning Commission from a future planning and zoning perspective, as these are very much related to public works'/infrastructure (i.e. future plans/desires for the Business Park). For our input and answers below, please refer to the proposed alternate route indicated on the map on the wall in the City Council Chambers. What changes would need to be made to the local street system to accommodate an alternate route? Our answer to this question is based on the alternate route only having three at- grade intersections. One would be on the south in the area of Derksen Road and the existing TH 371. One would be at CSAH 11. One would be on the north to serve both CR 112 and the existing TH 371. Besides these three proposed intersections, the only other roads intersected by the alternate route are Derksen Road, Morehouse Drive, and Tree Farm Road; all south of CSAH 11. From roughly Derksen Road south to Nisswa, the changes to the local street system should be identical under either route. These would include the addition 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 Page I of 5 C:\Documents and Settings\dawnbTocal Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK I 3D\060507-Joint rniinnil and P7 Mr.