DEPARTMENT: Transportation
FILE TYPE: Consent Information
TITLE
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Update On Dakota County Plat Needs Map
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Receive an update on Dakota County Plat Needs Map.
SUMMARY
The Plat Needs Map is a tool used to plan for right-of-way designation and access spacing requirements on the County highway system. The County Plat Commission uses the Plat Needs Map at its meetings to require subdividers to dedicate public right of way along County Roads and comply with the County's access spacing guidelines. The County Plat Commission has updated the map in response to the 2040 Transportation Plan, changes in traffic volumes, updated traffic forecasts, proposed/approved County Road alignments, and operation issues on County highways. According to the County's adopted Contiguous Plat Ordinance No.108 (2005), the Plat Needs Map is reviewed annually and updated as necessary by the Dakota County Board. The Plat Needs Map was last updated on April 16, 2013.
Plat Needs Map Updates
The 2040 County's Transportation Plan outlines the strategy for updating the Plat Needs Map:
Develop and maintain in coordination with cities and townships a county-wide plat needs map that establishes right of way for plat dedication and information associated with access spacing guidelines. Dakota County will consider the following factors in the development of the Plat Needs Map:
* 20-year traffic projections
* Function of the highway
* Corridor preservation
* Consistency with policy objectives
* Environmental considerations
* Transit and transitway needs
* Intermodal potential
* Coordination with adjacent land use
* Corridor Study Recommendations
* Future Interchange Locations
* Continuity along corridors
The Plat Commission will review any plat adjacent to a county highway or a highway shown on the Plat Needs Map as identified in the Contiguous Plat Ordinance No. 108. The review of a proposed plat and final approval of that plat is specifically limited to the follow...
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