HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2013-94 - Submittal of Project for 2013 Corridors of Commerce Program - 10/15/2013 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2013-94
RESOLUTION APPROVING SUBMITTAL OF PORTIONS OF THE I-35W/I-494
INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE
STATE OF MINNESOTA 2013 CORRIDORS OF COMMERCE PROGRAM
WHEREAS,the City of Eden Prairie supports the funding, building, operating and
maintaining of robust multimodal transportation system that reduces congestion, improves
safety, and enables the metropolitan area, and the State of Minnesota to better compete with
the other areas of the United States and the world; and
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Legislature created the Corridors of Commerce program by
authorizing the sale of up to $300 million in new bonds for the construction, reconstruction,
and improvement of trunk highways via the 2013 Session Law, Chapter 117; and
WHEREAS, the Corridors of Commerce program establishes two major goals: 1)to provide
additional highway capacity on segments where there are currently bottlenecks in the
transportation system, and 2)to improve the movement of freight and reduce the barriers of
commerce; and
WHEREAS, the 1-35W/I-494 interchange improvement project is not currently included in
the State Transportation Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, the I-35W/I-494 interchange improvement project is consistent with the
Minnesota Go Vision, the guiding principles and objectives put forth in the Statewide
Multimodal Transportation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Eden Prairie supports the submittal
and funding for the 1-35W/1-494 interchange improvement project to the maximum extent
possible as a project for the 2013 Corridors of Commerce program.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie this 151" day of October, 2013.
N c ra uk s, ayor
ATTEST:
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Ka Teen Porta, City Clerk