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RESOLUTION NO. 06-050
RESOLUTION REQUESTING A VARIANCE FROM MINNESOTA
RULES FOR STATE AID OPERATIONS CHAPTER 8820 FOR
MUNICIPAL STATE AID PROJECT NE. 163-284-007 (QUENTIN AVENUE
FROM EXCELSIOR BOULEVARD TO WOODDALE AVENUE).
WHEREAS, the City of St. Louis Park is prepanng plans for the rehabilitation of
Quentin Avenue from Excelsior Boulevard to Wooddale Avenue (MSAP 163-284-007); and
WHEREAS, In accordance with the City of St. Louis Park's Capital Improvement Plan
(C.I.P.), the pavement surface of Quentin Avenue requires rehabilitation in accordance with the
City's Pavement Management Program; and
WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of St. Louis Park believe that the minimum
design standards set forth by Minnesota Rules for State Aid Operation 8820 as applicable to the
proposed pavement rehabilitation of Quentin Avenue create an undue hardship; and
WHEREAS, said hardship is further explained in the attached supplementary letter from
the City Engineer; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of St.
Louis Park, located in Hennepin County, Minnesota, hereby respectfully submits a request for a
vanance to the Commissioner of Transportation for Minnesota Rules for State Aid Operations,
Chapter 8820.9946, Geometric Design Standards; Urban; Reconditioning Projects, as they apply
to the rehabilitation of Quentin Avenue from Excelsior Boulevard to Wooddale Avenue, so as to
allow the following.
1. The existing pavement width of 27-28 feet be allowed to remain.
2 Parking on one side of the street to be continued to be permitted as currently allowed.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of St. Louis
Park hereby indemnifies, saves, and holds harmless the State and its agents and employees, to the
extent of the City's statutory liability limits, of and from claims, demands, actions, or causes of
ion arising out of or by reason of the granting of the vanance. The Council further agrees to
d at its sole cost and expense any action or proceeding begun for asserting any claim of
what ver character arising as a result of the granting of the variance.
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d for Administration:
City Man
Attest:
City Clerk
d b th ity Council February 21, 2006