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RESOLUTION NO. 6622
A RESOLUTION ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF ST. LOUIS PARK
CONSTITUTING THE CITY'S STATEMENT REGARDING THE JUNE,
1980 LAYOUT PLANS OF Mn/DOT FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF
HIGHWAY 12.
WHEREAS, the State of Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT)
has submitted layout plans for improvement of Trunk Highway 12 and has
requested comments from the Council regarding said preliminary plans; and
WHEREAS, said preliminary plans were described to the City Council
by representatives of Mn/DOT on June 9, 1980; and
WHEREAS, preliminary layout plans were presented in November of
1979 by Mn/DOT to neighborhood groups in St. Louis Park located north
of Burlington Northern Railroad; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of St. Louis Park previously recommended
improvements of Highway 12 without transit in a median area but with
transit along a southwest diagonal with development of such transit
to be concurrent with improvements on Highway 12; and
WHEREAS, the City's Planning Commission and Streets and Highways
Committee has reviewed layout plans for improvement of Highway 12 and said
Streets and Highways Committee has prepared a draft statement regarding
said layout plans; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of St. Louis Park held an informational
meeting on July 1, 1980, at which time residents and civic leaders
expressed objections to the layout plan, especially with respect to the
proposed HOV lanes and access to such lanes, and questions and concerns
were received during said informational meetings relative to the
improvement of Highway 12, but not limited to, the following items:
cost, benefit, energy consumption, traffic volumes, population, transit
alternatives, use of Interstate Substitute Process, revenue losses,
environmental impacts, construction time and disruption, identification
of users and beneficiaries of the improvement, safety, maintenance
costs, and metropolitan needs;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis
Park that it hereby adopts the "Position Statement on Highway 12 (I-394),
A Report on Highways and Transit Improvements and Mn/DOT's Preliminary
Layout dated June 3, 1980", which is dated July, 1980.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis Park that
the implememtation of Alternative 3 shall utilize the provisions of
"Title 23 United States Code - Highways", Chapter 1, section 103,
subsection (e), paragraph (4).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis Park
that the preliminary information and consultation shall be sought from
the regional offices of the Federal Highway Administration and the
Urban Mass Transit Administration.
Adopted by the City Council August 18, 1980
ATTEST:
,ity Clerk
Reviewed for administration: Approved as to form and legality:
�vLt Ped rf-(,BALAn k.a .t
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City Attorney
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