DEPARTMENT: Transportation
FILE TYPE: Regular Information
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Discussion Of And Direction On City Cost Share For Joint Powers Agreement With Inver Grove Heights For 117th Street Reconstruction, County Project 32-65
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Discuss City cost share for a joint powers agreement (JPA) with the City of Inver Grove Heights (City) for the construction of County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 32 (117th Street), County Project (CP) 32-65.
SUMMARY
To provide a safe and efficient transportation system, the City of Inver Grove Heights, in cooperation with Dakota County, is proceeding with CP 32-65. The project will reconstruct 117th Street East from CSAH 71 (Rich Valley Boulevard) to the Trunk Highway (TH) 52/117th Street Interchange. The purpose of the project is to meet 10-ton design standards, enhance transportation system efficiency and mobility, reduce access points, improve pavement conditions, and facilitate the phased development of an essential east-west transportation corridor within the region. An additional objective is to provide pedestrian and bicycle facilities on the 117th Street corridor for future connection to the Mississippi River Greenway (MRG) east of TH 52 (Attachment: Project Location).
The 117th Street corridor is part of the broader CSAH 32 network in Dakota County that connects Interstate 35W in Burnsville to TH 52 in Inver Grove Heights. The corridor serves a high volume of freight traffic. The primary traffic movement through this corridor is southbound to eastbound and westbound to northbound at the T-intersection of 117th Street and CSAH 71 (Rich Valley Boulevard). Both 117th Street and CSAH 71 are Tier 1 regional truck corridors.
The preferred alternative is a two-lane, median-divided roadway for a one-mile segment of 117th Street between Rich Valley Boulevard and the Flint Hills Resources Refinery access, just west of the TH 52/117th Street Interchange. There will be pavement preservation improvements (mill and o...
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