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MEMORANDUM
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Jim Grube, Hennepin County
Bruce Polacyzk, Hennepin County
Roger Gustafson, Carver County
Don Ashworth, City of Chanhassen
Charles Folch, City of Chanhassen
Gene Dietz, City of Eden Prairie
Rod Rue, City of Eden Prairie
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David Juliff, P.E.
Jennie Ross
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DATE: November 12, 1997
SUBJECT: HIGHWAY 101 (TH 5 TO CSAH 62)
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As you know, our first project newsletter went out the week of October 27, 1997. The City o'f
Chanhassen sent out approximately 700 newsletters and Eden Prairie sent out approximately 900.
We suggest another newsletter would be appropriate in January 1998 after some traffic analysis
work has been completed and possibly some preliminary layout work has started.
\Vork is currently proceeding on several fronts:
. Markhurd, Inc. has been planning to fly the corridor in late October or early November. It
seems the leaves are taking their time falling this year. We would expect to have corridor
base mapping in our office sometime early in December.
. We have requested traffic counts, including turning movement counts at several key
intersections from Hennepin County staff. We are in the process of collecting and reviewing
existing traffic data and forecasts and will proceed with the traffic analysis once we receive
the traffic count data.
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. We are continuing to collect existing corridor data including half section data, plat maps,
as-builts, utility data, comprehensive plans, etc.
. We have begun early coordination communication with the appropriate agencies with regard
to the Environmental Assessment Worksheet. Field work for cultural resources and wetlands
will also be conducted in November. Once sufficient data has been collected, we will begin
writing those sections of the EA W document that are not specific to the roadway design.
. As with the newsletter, we believe that a Project Management Team meeting would be
appropriate sometime in January once we have completed the traffic analysis, have
assembled our base mapping, and begun to identify issues.
Please call if you have any questions or comments regarding our present schedule or approach.
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