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be necessar)' to perform repair or major structural rehabilitation to Spring Hill Road, and potentially <br />to East Long Lake Boulevard, in the near term to serve the additional traffic generated by the golf <br />course. The EAW should include this information. <br />Traffic <br />The EAW indicates the proposed Spring Hill Golf Club development is not expected to have <br />significant trallic impacts to the surrounding loadway system. Although it is true that the increased <br />trallic will not require any capacity upgrades in terms of adding lanes of traffic, it may require the <br />reconstruction of one or more local roadways to enable them to handle the additional traffic <br />generated by the golf course development Also, any current minor deficiencies in local roads or <br />intersections could become more pronounced with the increase in traffic. The city’s consultant <br />engineer is reviewing tratlle impacts and will provide a report prior to the special Council meeting. <br />The EAW is accurate in that the traffic impacts in terms of tlie general capacity of the roadways is <br />minor i.e. there is no need for additional traffic lanes. However, the local roads tliat would carry the <br />increased traffic art currently constructed and maintained to handle a minor amount of local traffic <br />only. These roads include Spring Hill Road and East Long Lal.e Road. The incremental increase <br />in tiuffie caused by the golf course may, particularly f--r Spring Hill Road, require structural <br />rehabilitation of the road. East Long Lake Road also was constructed through very poor soils. The <br />roadway was constructed to handle a small level of residential traffic. The golf course could add <br />sufficient traffic to make this roadway, as currently constructed, unworkable and would require a <br />repair or structural rehabilitation that would otherwise be unnecessary.