05-20-1993 Joint Meeting MinutesSTATE OF MN The City Council of the City of
COUNTY OF WRIGHT Otsego held a joint meeting with
CITY OF OTSEGO the Frankfort Town Board this 20
day of May, 1993, at 7:30 PM in the
Otsego City Hall. Norman F. Freske, Mayor, Doug
Lindenfeiser, Floyd Roden, Larry Fournier and Ron Black,
Council Members, Jerome Perrault, Clerk, Elaine Beatty,
Deputy Clerk/Zoning Administrator, Judy Hudson, Secretary,
Larry Koshak, Engineer, and Bob Kirmis, Planner, were -present
from Otsego.
Town Board Members Stanley Barthel, Tom Hagerty, Larry
Van Hull and Fred Vetsch were present from Frankfort
Township.
Also present were Terry Hubbard from MnDOT and Wayne
Fingalson, Wright CO. Highway Engineer.
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Norman F_
Freske.
Engineer Larry Koshak addressed the meeting and
explained that Hwy 101 will be upgraded to a 4 lane
expressway in 1994 -and 1995 resulting in 62nd St. and 65th
St. being cut off from direct access to Hwy 101 resulting in
the need of ari access road to connect 62nd & 65th St. to
either Co. 36 or Co. 37 to gain access to Hwy 101. Mr.
Koshak said we first looked at a North route from 65th St. to
70th St. (Co. 37) but. 2 issues were against this route.
MnDOT is not planning on a signalized intersection at Co. 37
- Hwy 101 and also the difficulty in resolving the
assessments on the property the access road would pass
through. The City share of this route would be about
62„000. We are now looking at a Southern route to connect
up to Quam Avenue which Frankfort is building up to 60th
Street. This would give access to the Co. 36 -Hwy 101
intersection which will be signalized. MnDOT would also have
to approve this route.
Option A of this route would be start at 62nd Street and
go South along the property line between the Levenson and
Grote properties and across the Werner property to connect
with Quam Avenue.
Option B would be the same except the road would curve
more to the West to go across the back of the Werner
property.
Option C would start at 62nd Street and follow the
property line between the Beltrand and Grote properties and
across the back of the Werner property to connect with Quam
Avenue.
Option D would be the same as Option C except it would
shift the right-of-way to 60 ft on the Grote property and 20
ft on the Beltrand property which would shift the road
farther away from Beltrand's house.
Larry Koshak said parts of Quale Avenue that have
already been built were not built in proper right-of-way and
improvements would require some re -alignment of Quale Avenue.
Glen Beltrand said the general agreement seems to favor.
option 8 which follows the property line between the Grote
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and Levenson properties. His concern was dust on the section
of Quale Avenue that would not be black topped and questioned
whether MnDOT would provide funds to blacktop this section
also.
Mr. Hubbard said the MnDOT policy would be to fund roads
that would benefit Hwy 101 and this would not be the,--ease in
blacktopping the section of Quale Avenue already built.
One resident said she was concerned about coming up the
hill on 62nd Street and having to stop for Quale Avenue.
Larry Koshak said a stop sign could be put on Quale
Avenue to favor the people coming up the hill on 62nd Street
Mrs. Werner said that she would prefer they built the
North route for Quale Avenue from 65th Street to 70th Street
instead of the Southern route because the Southern route
would take 60 ft off their property and take out the tree
line which forms a natural berm for their property.
Stanley Barthel asked about the possibility of building
the access road in front of the Werner property between Hwy
101 and the Werner buildings but Mr. Koshak said the set
backs would not be enough.
A recent traffic count showed about 140 cars a day using
65th & 62nd Streets.
One resident asked if the North route was a dead issue
and Mr. Koshak said that it was possible that both will be
built some time in the future and that MnDOT might consider
funding both routes. He said all the conduit will be put in
the road bed to signalize Co. 37 -- Hwy 101 intersection when
Hwy 101 is rebuilt but the signals will not be installed
until traffic warrants are met.
Paul Levenson said he preferred the Southern route and
Option B.
Mrs. Werner asked if there were any plans to continue
the access road North from Co. 37 to Co. 42. Larry Koshak
said there were plans for this as part of the 5 year MSA
Construction plans.
Glen Beltrand commented that it would be safe to assume
we will be driving through commercial development on either
the Southern or Northern route.
Rod Winter said he was not opposed to the Northern
route, just the assessments on his property. He wanted to
.know if the residents to the South were aware that they could
also be assessed.
Larry Koshak replied that an appraiser would have to
determine this.
Larry Fournier asked which route MnDOT preferred. Mr.
Hubbard replied that MnDOT planning indicated the North route
would be the most favorable.
Norman F. Freske asked Mr. Koshak what the next step
was. Mr. Koshak replied that a feasibility study would need
to be prepared and Public Hearings held after that.
Motion by Doug Lindenfei er to adjourn the meeting.
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Seconded by Floyd Roden, all Council Members voted in
favor of the motion.
, MAYOR NORMAN F. FRESKE
, DOUG LINDENFELSER, COUNCIL
, FLOYD RODEN, COUNCIL
. LARRY FOURNIER, COUNCIL
, RON BLACK, COUNCIL
Attest: Jerome Perrault, Clerk
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