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TIER 2 CONTEXT: EMPIRE JUNCTION TO WEST IDAHO SPRINGS

Clear Creek County Visioning Ideas:• Investigate moving the Port of Entry

• Construction schedules developed with stakeholder input

• Improve view quality, reduce noise, signage, lights

• Connect Fall River Road to Frontage Road with bridge

• Greenway construction

• Study light, shadow, and icing at Fall River Road before any curve

improvements

• Retain eastbound/westbound median

• Keep signage to a minimum

• Incorporate Downieville-Lawson-Dumont Neighborhood Plans

• Cover I-70 in Downieville-Lawson-Dumont area

• Raise I-70 or otherwise buffer Lawson and Silver Lakes area

• Buffer Rocky Mountain Village to provide noise and visual mitigation

• Relocate government uses at Empire Junction

• Include iconic pedestrian/bicycle bridge at Empire Juction

• Maximize county development and recreation uses at Empire Junction

January 2014 MOU:• Westbound PPSL

• Not exceed scope of eastbound PPSL

The western part of this

segment is lynx habitat Much of Downieville-Lawson-

Dumont area is low-income

and/or minority

Empire Junction

Interchange

Improvements

(in the ROD) Commitment to include

pedestrian bridge

connectivity to Frontage

Road

Area being

evaluated for

historic district

status

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Residence

Residence

Residence

Lawson School

Maude

Monroe/Dona

Juanita

Bellview

Hudson

Tunnel

Stanley

Consolidated

Mine

Alma

Lincoln

Mine

McClelland

Tunnel

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0 0.7Miles

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LEGENDEligible Historic Resource

SegmentWest Idaho Springs to Empire

Historic

District-Lawson

Mill City House

TIER 2 CONTEXT SEGMENT 3: EMPIRE JUNCTION TO WEST IDAHO SPRINGS

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TIER 2 CONTEXT: EMPIRE TO EISENHOWER-JOHNSON MEMORIAL TUNNELS

This entire segment is lynx

habitat

Fen/Fen Complex

Location

Eastbound Auxiliary Lane

from EJMT to Herman

Gulch (in the ROD)

Approximately half of this

has been constructed

Westbound Auxiliary Lane

from Bakerville to EJMT

(in the ROD)

Wetlands along

westbound I-70

Important Linkage

Interference Zone Georgetown-Silver Plume

National Historic District

Empire Junction

Interchange

Improvements

(in the ROD)

Clear Creek

Wagon Road

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Residence

Empire Historic

District

Bellview

Hudson

Tunnel

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LEGENDEligible Historic Resource

0 1.5Miles

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SegmentEmpire to EJMT

Linkage Interference Zone

TIER 2 CONTEXT SEGMENT D: EMPIRE TO EISENHOWER-JOHNSON MEMORIAL TUNNELS