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'B <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrato^^ <br />DATE: September 5, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: Highway 12 Corridor Study <br />Attachment: A. Highway 12 Information <br />B. Draft List of Issues <br />ISSUE - <br />1. Presentation of information to Council from the Highway 12 <br />Task Force. <br />2. List of draft issues for possible submission at the next <br />Policy Committee meeting. <br />3. Proposal for utilization of outside expertise -o assist the <br />City during the process. <br />INTRODUCTION - Attachment A is the most recent: information <br />presented to the Council regarding the Highway 12 Corridor Study. <br />It had been requested that issues be prepared by the City for <br />submission to the next Policy Committee meeting with Attachment A <br />representing an initial list. <br />discussion - <br />Issue #2 - Draft Issues - This is initial list prepared by staff <br />as to possible issues and objectives the City would like to have <br />achieved during the study process. This does not mean <br />necessarily that they could or would be achieved but at least <br />would be the City's initial input on this. This initial <br />submission does not forestall either the City or the Task Foi ce <br />from developing other goals as the process progresses. <br />Issue #3 - Expert Assistance - While initially looking at the <br />utllTzation of a strictly transportation consultant the scope of <br />the work appears to involve a wider range of issues as noted in <br />the list of issues above. These issues are broader than <br />transportation and include land use, environmental sensitive <br />areas, urban and rural interface together with a transportation <br />component. In order to blend both of these it would be perhaps <br />better to utilize someone familiar with the land use issues and <br />have a transportation expert available through them when it would <br />be appropriate. <br />Given this line of reasoning it is proposed that the City utilize <br />John Shardlow as the principal expert in developing the issues <br />and assisting the City in that matter and utilizing on an as <br />needed basis a transportation engineering firm who has worded as <br />part of MnDOT and as a contractor to MnLOT on significant <br />projects.