HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 89-24 - Urging Mn/DOT to Change Funding Policy Regarding Detached Replacement Frontage Roads - 02/07/1989 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 89-24
RESOLUTION URGING THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO
REVISE POLICIES REGARDING FUNDING FOR DETACHED REPLACEMENT
FRONTAGE ROADS
WHEREAS, the City of Eden Prairie participated in and endorsed the I-494
Corridor Study; and
WHEREAS, the 1-494 Corridor Study concluded that the I-494 frontage roads
east of France Avenue will be lost to eventual expansion of the freeway; and
WHEREAS, the I-494 Corridor Study concluded that an effective system of
supporting arterial roadways is necessary to serve short- and medium-length
trips within the corridor; and
WHEREAS, the I-494 Corridor Study identified streets not immediately
adjacent to the freeway as roadways which would have to serve an arterial
traffic function; and
WHEREAS, use of these roadways would save costly and unnecessary right-of-
way acquisiton to provide redundant off-freeway supporting roadways; and
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WHEREAS, existing policy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation does
not allow funding of detached replacement frontage roads ; and
WHEREAS, the City of Eden Prairie is a member of the I-494 Corridor
Commission; and
WHEREAS, the City of Eden Prairie is vitally concerned about such funding
policies because they have significant traffic, fiscal , and lard use effectson
cities along the corridor;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE I'f RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Eden Prairie
that the Minnesota Department of Transportation revise its present frontage road
funding policy to state that it will pay for detached replacement urban frontage
roads at the same funding level as if they were adjacent to a freeway.
ADOPTED by the Eden Prairie City Council this 7th day of February, 1989.
Gary D. Peterson , Mayor
ATTEST:
*n ./Frane, City Clerk