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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 760 - Resolution Commenting on Comprehensive Phase III - Minnetonka's Community Development Guide - 08/28/1973 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA 6 RESOLUTION NO. 760 A RESOLUTION COMMENTING ON COMPREHENSIVE PHASE III, A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GUIDE FOR THE CITY OF MINNETUNKA AS IT AFFECTS THE VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA WHE REAS, iJ�consulting firm of Hodne/Stageberg Partners has prepared a Development Guide setting forth certain proposals for the planned development and growth of the City of Minnetonka, and I4HEREAS, the development and growth of the communities of Minnetonka �f fect and Eden Prairie one another, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the Village of Eden i Prairie expresses encouragement to the City of Minnetonka in its adoption of a Community Guide Plan as a necessary element to Minnetonka' s planned development_ i and phased orderly growth, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the Village of Eden Prairie express the following comments concerning the Development Guide of the Minnetonka consultant with respect to pror..sals concerning traffic, land use, open space and population densities which affect the Village of Eden Prairie : 1. The "7/101, Riley-Purgatory Creek Study Corridor" proposed circulation plan does not correctly reflect approved and proposed land use densities, thereby generating increased traffic volumes. 1995 proposed volumes on 101 as it enters Eden Prairie are shown as 4,000 A.D.T. Development of a sub-regional center (300,000-500,000 sq . ft. commercial space) at #7/101 intersection will generate large amounts of traffic: north/south on 101. Also, the Minnetonka land use and 4oning plans indicate over 2, 000-3,000 units, primarily apartment, along 101 between #7 and Co. Rd . 62. A circulation system which plans on the basis of 4, 000 trips/day for 101 in 1995 is not realistic. Traffic assignments by Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendof.f for the 101-northwestern Eden Prairie area indicate volumes of about 13, 000 A. D.T. on 101 -- this does not include the intensifying of the #7/101 commercial. area. Also, the proposed realignment of 101 around the #7 intersection should be consistent with environmental. concerns and neighborhood !: recommendations. The plan for connecting 101, south of #7, with Excelsior Boulevard .r. and reducing the efficiency of north/south movement on T.H. 101 is not consistent with the State or the Village of Eden Prairie' s planning. 2. The Comprehensive Guide Plan of the Village of Eden Prairie, since 1968, has shown a riew four lane divided parkway running north/south to new 212 from T.H. 101 at the Minnetonka city limits. The provision of this upgraded route is not recognized in the Minnetonka Plan. Likewise, the .fv.nction, size and timing .for upgrading of Vine Hill Road is not considered in the Riley- Purgatory Creek Section. The access to #7 at Vine Hill Road provides a direct route to the proposed C. S.A.H. 62 at the 101 intersection. The impact of this access to #7 and the connection to the Crosstown. is not adequately considered in the Minnetonka Plan to judge the effect upon Eden Prairie. 3. The open space component of the Riley-Purgatory Creek Study Corridor does recognize the planned open space systems within Eden Prairie. The trail systems along Purgatory Creek provide the connection to the proposed golf course/ community recreation site in Eden Prairie south of C.S.A.H. 62. if the intent of the Minnetonka Man is Co enhance and preserve the open space corridors, the implementation of the creek corridor ,concept must be more carefully implemented than the situation along; Nine Mile Creek along Rowland Road on the Eden Prairie/ Minnetonka border. Further grade separation connections should be included in any upgrading of C.S.A.H. 62 for the major open space corridors . 4. The Minnetonka Plan recognizes the upgrading of C. S.A.H. 62 on the present alignment of 'Town Line Road to accommodate 8,000-9,000 A. D.T. by 1995 between T.H. 101 and Co. Rd. 4. The suggested upgrading to less than freeway standards on the Town Line Road aligz.iment is consistent with the Eden Prairie planning to date. However, the volumes indicated by the Minnetonka Plan appear to be grossly low since the Crosstown ". . .would markedly reduce traffic on Excelsior Boulevard and on Eden Prairie Road." . . .(page 48, Minnetonka Plan) . The Crosstown Extension is currently under study by a Task Force comprised of communities and agencies ; their recommendations should be considered in any revision to the Minnetonka Plan . 5. 'The proposed industrial development north of C. S.A.H. 62 at the Baker Road/I-494 intersection area will require an upgrading of the Baker Road/ 62 intersection in the near future. The area east of Baker Road in Eden Prairie is primarily residential with possible commercial (neighborhood) , pending decisions on the design and access possible at Baker Road and C.S.A.H. 62. 6. The proposed industrial development east of I-494 north of C.S.A.H. 62 Extension is inconsistent with Eden Prairie' s development along the Nine Mile Creek Valley. Eden Prairie , with the cooperation of many agencies , has purchased over 125 acres extending from the Minnetonka city boundary south to Bryant Lake for a regional park and natural conservation area. The Village of Eden Prairie does not believe the gravel mining and subsequent industrial development of the land west of Nine Mile Creek in Minnetonka is in the best interest of the natural environment, and Eden Prairie' s Open Space System. Further, the location of C.S.A.H. 62 south of the Minnetonka boundary in Eden Prairie is not consistent t with the Village of Eden Prairie' s recorunended alignment of C. S.A.H. 62. Eden Prairie :is committed to the alignment which does the minimum damge to the sensitive natural valley along Nine Mile Creek. The extension of graveling, mining, and rezoning to Industrial by Minnetonka dictated the moving of the C.S.A.H. 62 aligrunent north of the Eden Prairie village boundary, between the Shady Oak interchange and I-494. 7. The Hennepin County Highway Department is studying a redesign for C.S.A.H. 62 which would go over Rowland Road rather than under_ Rowland Road., reducing the cut substantially. The Village of. Eden Prairie supports the attempt by the Minnetonka Plan to protect the creek valley and utilize it as a trail corridor; however, in view of the adjacent- land uses and physical dimensions of the preservation area, the Village does not expect Minnetonka' s implementation of the trail corridor to produce the desired open space area. 8. The purchase and proposed subsequent development of the Municipal Golf Course north of Bren Road is not consistent with the joint "Golf Feasibility Study" prepared by Brauer & Associates, February, 1972, for Minnetonka, Hopkins and Eden Prairie. The economics of joint development and multi-community support are not reflected by the development of the golf course proposed. Eden Prairie supports joint community development of such regional recreation facilities. 9. Rowland Road should be maintained as a limited capacity, maximum two lane road, developed as a parkway through Eden Prairie. 10. The intense commercial/industrial development proposed in the Minnetonka Plan for southeastern Minnetonka (Section 36) will have significant impact upon the regional road systems, Edina and Eden Prairie road systems, and the demand for regional/sub-regional office and commercial developments. The Major Diversified Center Section of the Metropolitan Development Guide does not indicate southeastern Minnetonka as a site for such intense regional development. Development of the Southdale/#100 area over the past 18 years and now the Eden Prairie Major Center Area on;y one mile south on new U.S. 212 raises questions which should be addressed by the Metropolitan Council related to proliferation of such regional developments. 11. The two primary access points to the 300-500 acre commercial/ :industrial/ residential area seem grossly inadequate to handle the expected traffic volumes. The transportation consultant, Egil Wefald & Associates, Inc. , projects by 1995 only 21, 000 A.D.T. to the area - 21, 000 A.n;T. would roughly correspond to a 40-50 acre regional or sub-regional shopping area. The pr.'nnpcPd development plan incorporates commercial plus office and industrial which will generate many times the trips estimated. One impact upon the County highway system will be the congestion of C.S.A.H. 62, Shady Oak Road, and Co. Rd. 18. Eden Prairie does not endorse the industrial/commercial proposal for Section 36 until questions relating to the circulation system are resolved. ADOPTED by the Village Council on August 28, 1973. aul R. Redpath, Mayor47 Attest : 1 SEA L l , f/ Jofin D. Frane,'Clerk