HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 79-50 - Requesting DOT for Additional Manpower, Consulting Assistance & Effort for 212 project - CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY , MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 79-50
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION TO PUT ADDITIONAL MANPOWER, CONSULTING
ASSISTANCE AND EFFORT INTO THE 212 PROJECT
WHEREAS, the south and west central portion of the State of Ni,nnesota is the
only portion of the State without a four lane farm to market road ; and
WHEREAS, at a public hearing called by -the Minnesota Highway Department in
April 1970, it was stated that if all municipalities affected by Unique System
Corridor D of the HNTB Study adopted a favorable resolution T.H. #212 would be
completed by 1975; and
WHEREAS, all affected municipalities adopted the necessary resolution; and
WHEREAS , MnDOT has now placed relocated T.H. #212 from #494 to Norwood on
the 1983-1985 schedule in its Statewide Transportation Plan; and
WHEREAS , there is in existence a draft Environmental Impact Statement but
that new Federal Regulations require additional study; and
WHEREAS , it appears that unless a real commitment for additional manpower or
consulting assistance for Environmental study, design and right-of-way acquisition
is made by MnDOT, the construction of new T.H. #212 will not meet the MnDOT time-
table set forth in the Transportation Plan ;
NOW, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Eden Prairie:
1. That the Governor of the State of Minnesota and MnDOT Commission
are hereby requested to designate T.H. #212 as a "priority project"
in order to meet the statewide needs of Minnesota.
2. That MnDOT is hereby requested to commit additional manpower or
consulting assistance and effort to new relocated T. H. #212 from
#494 to Norwood, Minnesota, in order to meet the schedule for said
facility pursuant to the MnDOT Transportation Plan.
3. That said additional manpower and effort is necessary in order to
provide the west center portion of the State of Minnesota with a good
four lane farm to market road.
ADOPTED by the City Council of Eden Prairie on the 6th day of March, 1979.
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r ,Mayor : fg ng H. Penzel
ATTEST:
John D. F e, City Clerk