A part of the OACCT's Public Policy efforts for 2011 is for volunteers from the Public Policy committee attend both City and County meetings and report back on items that are of interest/concern to business.
Today’s meetings centered around the Owatonna belt line corridor study.
Specifically discussed were the expansion/extension options of county road 171/180.
There were 3 main options presented. Each option involved slightly different configurations as well as different needs to obtain certain properties.
Option A1 and detailed attaining 8 different properties at a total cost of $700,000.
Option E1 record the purchase of 6 properties costing $477,000.
Option F1 cost $500,000 requiring the purchase of 5 properties.
A multitude of scenarios was discussed including moving the diagram of Highway 171 slightly
North to separate from railroad tracks.
There was also discussion about adding a possible county park should extra land be available similar to the Crane Creek Park on Highway 14.
They discussed the concern that some of the properties on the east side of Highway 43 would not be able to go southbound without making a U-turn and therefore some adaptation would have to be made should option F1 be chosen.
There was also significant discussion regarding building improvements made on properties 6 and 7 and a potential significant increase in cost to purchase that land at this time.
The two options it seemed the most desirable or option A1 despite its cost and option F1 with the additional purchase of property 4.
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