Approximately 3 miles of County Road (County State Aid Highway) #4 runs through our Town from about Red Oak Road to the Breezy Point City Limits.  The road project will include a total re-design and rebuild from Lakeshore Drive in Breezy Point to County Road 18. This is a State Aid highway and is therefore subject to State standards regarding it's speed limit, signing and construction. 

Recently, MN-DOT and Crow Wing County announced an effort to gather public opinion pertaining to the rebuilding of this important road from Co Rd 18 into the Breezy Point portion of this highway.  A "Project Management Team" has been formed to gather information and opinions relating to the scope of this project.  The PMT was formed to gather and present a position paper on the wants and needs of the local community to the County Board and MDOT where all final decisions are to be made on the project.  

The construction timetable shows a build date of 2010. The Town of Pelican is interested in knowing what you would like to see done during this construction project.  In the past, we have been the recipient of many complaints and commentary resulting from events taking place on this road.  Typical comments would address safety issues, speed limits and road Right-Of-Way issues.  Many are concerned with increased speeds that will likely occur when this project is completed.  Others have voice concern over related safety issues given the logistics of the existing road.  MN-DOT has announced that some land will be acquired to improve the ROW for this highway and that the present design speed is only about 35 to 40 MPH.  This new design speed may be raised coincidentally with this project.  This may mean that the radius of many of the sharper curves will have to be increased to comply with this higher design speed.

Land adjacent to or near the existing highway will have to be acquired for the project and some of the existing road footprint may be relocated to straighten curves or to provide a cushion of safety for access to the highway. 

The Town board intends to vigorously defend the wishes of it's residents when asked to provide comment on this proposed project.  In order to do that, we need your opinion and suggestions. If you have an opinion regarding the reconstruction project, please use this link to send us an e-mail and let us know how you feel about this important road issue.  There will also be public meetings held through September to inform interested parties of the road project details.

The project engineer, Ron Bray, can be contacted at rbray@wsbeng.com or at 763 287-7177.

WSB notification letter #1 in PDF format       Project Schedule in PDF format

Link to County Web Site information on C.R. 4 http://www.co.crow-wing.mn.us/highway/csah_4_project.html