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SOCIAL. ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS (FROM FHWA TECHNICAL ADVISORY - T6640.8A, OCTOBFJl 30, 1987) Listed below are potentially significam Social, Economic, and Environmental Impac;. m commonly encountered by highway projects. These impacts will be evaluated/or each ah - ” n v included in the EIS, if a potential for impact exists. 1« rand Use Imoacta Affect on current development trends and the State, Metro, and/or local government plans and policies on land and growth in the area(s) to be impacted. This would address provisions reflected n local comprehensive plans and the Metropolitan Council’s Metropolitan Development Guide — and include land use, transportation, public facilities, housing, community services, and other aieas, related to: plan consistency with project alternatives secondary SEE impacts that could be expected by the project alternatives (i.c. induced growth) 2. Farmiand Impacts • Affect on prime, unique, other than prime or unique farmland that is of statewideAffect on prime, unique, other man pnme or unique laiimauu umi importance, and, other than prime or unique farmland that is of local importance (i.c. farmlands covenanted in Agricultural Preserves in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area). .3. Tmnacts Changes in neighborhoods or neighborhood cohesion (either beneficial or adverse), such as dividing eighborhoods, isolating ethnic groups, gencraUng new development, changing properly values, or separating residents from community facilities. 0 • Changes in travel patterns or accessibility (vehicular, commuter, bicycle, or pedestrian). Impacts on school districts, recreation areas, churches, businesses, policc/firc protection, including dircct/indirect impacts resulting from the displacement of households and businesses. Impacts of alternatives on highway safely (and overall public safer/). -l-