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August 20,2003 To: Ron Moorse From: Greg Gappa Subject: City Street Rehabilitation Program Introduction The City of Orono historically has had a limited budget for street rehabilitation projects. The only street reconstruction completed has been Municipal State Aid funded projects, and sanitary sewer projects. Recent sewer projects have included street reconstruction to a higher standard, but for the sewer projects that were completed in the 1960's and 1970 ’s the streets were replaced to minimal standards. Over the past several years, the budget for pavement overlays was increased significantly and progress was made in overlaying streets. Today, City streets are in fairly reasonable condition, and with the patch truck we are able to more eftlciently patch streets. The only road that is in very poor condition is Starkey Road. This road only provides access to one home in Orono, a Tlwee-Rivcrs Park District group camp in Baker Park, and four homes in Medina. There is no platted right of way for this road, but it has been maintained for public use for many years and we could claim a prescriptive easement for this road. Repair or upgrading of this road is very low priority. The greatest concern for the condition of City streets is the amount of development and redevelopment occurring. Development can be detrimental to streets because of the large amount of heavy truck trafllc. roi tunateI>, in the northern, lower density areas of Orono we are nearing a full development condition which should reduce the amount of construction traffic in the future. Also, in this area, most of the construction traffic is on county roads or state aid streets. However, a concern is the increasing intensity' of lakeshore redevelopment on Lake Minnetonka. A good example of this concern is Casco Point Road. Most of this street has been overlaid, but the pavement is already showing signs of deterioration. This street would be fine for normal residential traffic, but this road is not adequate to handle the heavy construction traffic that is occurring. Local Roadway System Orono’s local roadway system includes sixty miles of City streets (20 % of which are State Aid Streets) and County Roads. The State Aid Streets and County Roads carry the vast majority of local traffic. The non-State Aid streets serve specific neighborhood needs, and have low traffic volumes. Municipal State Aid Roads and Funding Twenty percent of our City streets arc Municipal State Aid streets, wdiich is the maximum percentage allowed by State Statute. These State Aid streets include collector streets such as Old i