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ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 26, 1990 HIGHWAY 12 CORRIDOR CONTINUED not b*3 available until the latter part of December. It may be later than that if MNDuT does not receive all of the information they have requested from the various cities involved in this. Ms. Behrman asked if Council knew whether Long Lake has selected a corridor. Acting Mayor Callahan replied, "They have not officially selected a corridor. The meeting tha*. I attended was sponsored by citizen groups, not by the Long L=*ke Council. Tney made a specific point not to discuss a corridor preference." Ms. Behrman asked whether it is the intention of the City of Orono to work with the City of Long Lake. She stated that the public does not seem well informed. Goetten encouraged Ms. Behrman to invite pe'rsons to attend not only the Dacember 1, 1990 meeting in Orono, but the various citizen group meetings as well. She said, "If they attend the citizen group meetings, they will get the correct information, rather than innuendo." Acting Mayor Callahan cautioned that at some point, supposedly in the Spring, the MND(;T meetings will i^top. He said, "When those meetings stop, the direct opportun..ty for the cities and citizens to have input will lessen." Rosemary Schauer, "Laker" Newspaper, stated that the Citizen, Technical and Policy Committee meetings for December will only occur if the traffic forecast information is available. The purpose of these city meetings is to provide MNDOT with unique characteristics in each city that may need to bo considered in selecting a corridor. This will help MNDoT to complete their overlay' Ms. Behrman stateu ..nat she had attended a meeting in Maple Plain. She said, ‘‘Not much happened at the meeting and few people attended. A representative from MNDOT talked about the various routes. He indicated that the concern with the two northerly routes is that they want to pick a route that people will use as an alternative to Highway 12. They feel that Highway 55 and County Road 11 are too far north. They also said that if a particular city, suvth as Long Lake, takes a strong stand opposing the location of the corridor through the town, that MNDOT could not select that particular corridor." Acting Mayor Callahan said, "Th«3re is more to it than that. If Orono and Long Lake were to object to a particular corridor, MNDOT would probably drop the project and leave the road where it is now. However, if just one city said no, MNDOT could, through a long process, force that city to accept the corridor. W^iyzata - 8 -