04.01 October 5, 2004 Special Council Meeting Minutes

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Pequot Lakes-Hwy 371 North October 8, 2004 Page 7 of 13 side south from Engen Road. The timing and financing of such an undertaking will most likely be from a developer-initiated project as opposed to a City-initiated project. Thus,unless a developer steps forward or the City puts together an overall finance plan,they most likely will not place utilities as part of this project. 21. The City is aware that it has watermain in a casing pipe under TH 371 at Pillsbury and that the casing pipe will need to be extended at the City's cost as part of this project. This watermain(uncased)then turns north and parallels about 15 feet within the easterly TH 371 R/W for about 260 feet north before turning east along the south R/W of Morehouse Drive. This watermain was installed in 1999. Due to the unknown extent and timing of the proposed TH 371 improvements at that time, the City only paid for enough casing pipe to `cover' the existing highway. For the purposes of estimating a cost to the City, and not knowing the exact highway layout at this time, I will use 75 feet of additional casing pipe installed perpendicular to the highway and 260 feet of casing pipe installed parallel to the highway (excavation of existing watermain, installation of a `split' casing pipe, `welding' of the `split' casing pipe, and backfilling) at $150 per foot for a total of$50,250. 22. We understand MnDOT has warrants for the installation of stoplights as well as access management guidelines (for access and stoplights, the spacing varies from 0.25 miles to 1 mile depending on whether it is urban to rural). We ask that MnDOT review traffic types(i.e. buses from the school and industrial traffic from the industrially zoned land) and traffic projections as the project schedule becomes more defined,and if warrants are met,to consider installation of a stoplight at the Morehouse Drive intersection(50% of the costs being shared by the City). Morehouse Drive - West Lake Street 10.3 miles } 23. On the west side just north of the new Morehouse Drive four-way intersection, MnDOT should note that the property is zoned Industrial. The City is expectant that MnDOT's standards for service roads in such areas will reflect larger radii, widths, etc. needed for vehicles in such zoning. 24. Also on the west side north of Morehouse Drive extended, MnDOT needs to have discussions with the property owner(Mr.Babinski)about his future development plans and how a service road through here would work with these plans. CAMP DocumenvWity C1erMIGHWAY 371\Comments to MnDOT-100804-memo.doc