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p- ■* 1. ■ •f, ,* ■.y Citizen ’s Committee Minutes January 22, 1991 (Approved May 21, 1991) Page 2 Questions from the Committee were received. Bems asked what restrictions are placed on public recreation {4(f)} lands; Hay responded that no feasible and prudent alternative to the taking of such lands will be permitted without further documentation of avoidance alternatives and impact mitigation. MacMillan asked what modifications could be made for Long Lake. Dallam discussed a suggested modification that would route the facility over the railroad and behind the shopping center - which would take me Pannekoeken restaurant and require the roadway to be elevated about 40 feet. From a community impact and engineering standpoint, this is net a feasible and prudent alternative. Winston asked about a tunnel option - Hay responded that the cost of a tunnel could have serious ramifications on the funding for the project (if there were other more cost-effective alternatives available). In Other Business, Hay mentioned that the St Qoud Mn/DOT district would be holding a public information meeting at the City of Montrose to update the public on the improvement of TH 12 from Delano to Montrose. He also mentioned that he will be speaking about the TH 12 project at the January 31, 1991 Maple Plain Chamber of Commerce meeting. Also mentioned was a special public information meeting about the TH 12 scopmg project on February 2, 1991 at the Medina Entertainment Center (formerly Ballroom) MacMillan requested additional information about the traffic forecasting model to be used in the project. Other comments fi’om the Audience were then addressed, including the feasibility of studying a "split corridor" or one-way pairs through Orono and Long Lake; the omission of Bederwood Park in Orono from the features mapping; the contribution of the project to possible urban sprawl; and the ability to convert privately-held land to Section 4(f) land. Truck traffic rerouting was also discussed, as was the new timetable of the project (to be distributed with the minutes of this meeting). Other questions dealt with right-of-way acquisition, the urgency of screening out infeasible corridors to abate the "stale" real estate market fears, the inclusion of minor impro ’« ;ments to existing TH 12 in the traffic forecasts; and the equal treatment of the alternatives selected for further study in the Environmental Impact Statement The next meeting was tentatively set for April 16, 1991, 4:00 p.m.. Maple Plain City Hall. Mn/DOT and HNTB will announce any meeting date changes. Meeting adjourned at 5;2S p.m. RDH/mst