04.01 October 5, 2004 Special Council Meeting Minutes

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Pequot Lakes-Hwy 371 North October 8, 2004 Page 9 of 13 Woodman Street - Sibley Street { 4 blocks 27. With MnDOT closing accesses and `pushing' traffic to the CSAH 11 intersection,they will be worsening the situation with the CSAH I I/Main Street/2nd Street/Front Street/Brown Street "corner". Even though MnDOT has not significantly changed their access control plan through town during this multi-year process(which has shown many accesses being closed),the right-in, right-out layouts of West Washington Street in Brainerd and the multi-access points proposed for Pine River open up questions that MnDOT will need to address relative to Pequot Lakes {why there and not here?}. Consider right-in right-out accesses for the following: Front Street (southbound); West Woodman Street(southbound);East Woodman Street(northbound); and East Sibley Street (northbound)J. Whether adding these accesses is going to help relieve/manage congestion or just add to it on certain City streets is an arguable point. However, it does give local traffic other options besides being funneled through the one stop-lighted intersection with CSAH I I/Main Street. The City, on its own, recognizes it needs to look at parking as well as their own City street network for multiple routes to handle local traffic. 28. Possibly look at a relocation of CSAH 11 with the County(move to the south a couple blocks to Woodman Street). This idea has not yet been discussed with the County. Dependent on timelines and funding for this project(and the County's funding and timelines),this idea may need to be a future possibility instead of an inclusion in these improvements. From the TH 371/Woodman Street intersection, the "new" CSAH 11 would proceed east along Woodman Street to Old 371 (probably still a 4-way stop). It would then continue east at least another block past Gravdahl Drive and then would"S"curve to the north to connect back into the present CSAH 11. We would anticipate as part of any realignment, the County would `turnback' Front Street and Main Street west of TH 371 as well as Main Street east of TH 371 out to the connection of the"new" CSAH 11 with the present CSAH 11. This "new" CSAH 11 would line the stop-lighted intersection up with a street that comes directly from the school, would avoid the Main Street/2nd Street/Front Street/Brown Street "corner", would open up the old CSAH 11/Main Street/Front Street stretch for the City to incorporate into their downtown parking and traffic circulation future plans, and would CAMy DocumentsWityClerldl-IIGHWAY 371\Comments to MnDOT-100804-memo.doc