HomeMy WebLinkAboutAppendix F1 Review Period Comment SummaryCity of Edina Comprehensive Plan: Interjurisdictional Review
Letters were sent to the following affected jurisdictions for the six-month comment period, which ran
from May 8 to November 8, 2019. This matches the list provided by the Metropolitan Council.
Comments received, and responses to those comments, are attached. If no comment is provided, it
is because the jurisdiction did not respond within the six-month comment period.
Adjacent Jurisdictions Contacted for Six Month Review
Jurisdiction Type
Response
Received?
City of Bloomington Adjacent Community Yes
City of Eden Prairie Adjacent Community Yes
City of Hopkins Adjacent Community No
City of Minneapolis Adjacent Community No
City of Minnetonka Adjacent Community No
City of Richfield Adjacent Community No
City of St. Louis Park Adjacent Community No
Hennepin County Adjacent Community Yes
270; Hopkins School District No
272; Eden Prairie School District No
273; Edina School District No
280; Richfield School District No
283; St. Louis Park School District No
Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Watershed Management Organization No
Nine Mile Creek Watershed District Watershed Management Organization No
Three Rivers Park District Regional Park Implementing Agency Yes
MnDOT State Agency Yes
MnDNR State Agency No
MAC State Agency No
Adjacent Jurisdictions Comments Received
Comment From Response
Thank you for the opportunity to review and comment. The City
of Eden Prairie has no comment on the Edina 2040
Comprehensive Plan. Best wishes to you and your staff as you
move toward final authorization and approval.
City of Eden
Prairie
None
required
Figure 5.1. Existing Sidewalk Facilities, line weight and title
modification requested.
The map depicts the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail underneath
the sidewalk line weight. Please modify map line weight to show
the entire Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail.
The Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail is technically a multi-purpose
trail, not a sidewalk facility. It is recommended that the Plan
change the title of the map from Existing Sidewalk Facilities to
Existing Pedestrian Facilities as suggested by the map legend.
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
Figure 5.2. Existing Bicycle Facilities, line weight modification
requested.
The map depicts the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail underneath
the sidewalk line weight. Please modify map line weight to show
the entire Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail.
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
Figure 5.3. Regional Bicycle Transportation Network, map
modifications requested.
It is recommended that the line depicted as a Regional Trail
Search Corridor be relabeled as “CP Rail Regional Trail” on the
map.
It is recommended that the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail
depicted as a Tier 1 Alignment is labeled as “Nine Mile Creek
Regional Trail” on the map.
The Regional Trail Search Corridor south of the Nine Mile Creek
Regional Trail is included in a master plan that is anticipated for
approval in September 2019.
Therefore, it is recommended that the map refer to this section
of the Regional Trail Search Corridor as a Proposed Alignment
instead and thus make line, legend, and color modifications
accordingly.
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
Inventory and Current Conditions, spacing modifications
requested.
The bulleted list has several names of facilities squeezed together
with no space between separate words. Additionally, the second
to last paragraph below the bulleted list has several lines of text
that are squeezed together with no space between separate
words. It is recommended that the Plan reformat the text to
improve reader experience.
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
Regional Parks and Trails and the 2040 Regional Parks Policy Plan, text modifications requested. Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail
• For example, Three Rivers Park District owns and
maintains regional parks and trails throughout
suburban Hennepin County, such as the Nine Mile
Creek Regional Trail, Bryant Lake Regional Park in
Eden Prairie, Hyland Lake Park Reserve in
Bloomington and 16 other regional parks within the
Three Rivers Park District in addition to 7 park
reserves, 12 regional parks, 5 special recreation
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
features, and 15 other regional trails.
• Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail, when completed, will
be is a 15 mile 15-mile bike multi-use trail that will
spans the Cities of Hopkins, Minnetonka, Edina,
Richfield, and Bloomington. It will also connect
connects to the Lake Minnetonka LRT, Minnesota
River Bluffs LRT, and Cedar Lake LRT, regional Trails
and North Cedar Lake, and Nokomis-Minnesota River
Regional Trails as well as the planned Minnesota River
State Trail, Dakota County Big Rivers Regional Trail,
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Bloomington Visitor Center, and Fort Snelling State
Park.
• From the west, it currently enters the City of Edina
from Hopkins over the Bren Rd/Londonberry Road
Bridge interchange at T.H. 169. From the east, it
enters the City from Richfield at the cul-de-sac of
Xerxes Avenue just south behind Fire Station 2. In
2020, the Park District anticipates it will
construct a safer, more direct connection
under T.H. 169 that will pass through the Nine
Mile Creek watershed.
South Hennepin Regional Trail-West Canadian Pacific Rail
Regional Trail (CP Rail Regional Trail)
• This is a proposed trail was first identified in the 2030 Regional Parks Policy Plan (adopted in June 2005 as the Southwest Hennepin Regional Trail- West). The regional trail generally follow an follows the existing north- south railroad grade owned by of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the City of Edina.
• It would extend between Once constructed, it
will connect the Hyland- Bush-Anderson Lakes
Park Reserve in Bloomington (in Bloomington) on
the south and the Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail (in
St. Louis Park and Minneapolis) to the north. It is
proposed to connect to the Nine Mile Creek
Regional Trail in the City of Edina. From Edina,
the future trail will connect regional trails in
Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Golden Valley, and
Crystal.
• There is now a preferred alignment for the CP Rail
Regional Trail. Therefore, it is recommended that you
replace the last paragraph and corresponding map with
the following: In 2019, Three Rivers Park District
completed a regional trail study and master
plan for the south Edina portion of
the CP Rail Regional Trail. Figure 6-2 shows
the alignment through this area along Bush
Lake Road, Dewey Hill Road, and Cahill Road.
*Please note: The updated map is attached to the original email.
Figure 6.2: Alternative Alignments for the
Nine Mile Creek Trail, title modification
requested.
Figure 6.2: Alternative Alignments for the Nine Mile Creek Trail
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
CP Rail Regional Trail
Recreation Programs - Goal I, spacing modification
requested.
The text in Policy I-A is squeezed together with no space
between several separate words. It is recommended that the Plan
reformat the text to improve reader experience.
Three
Rivers Park
District
Change made
as requested
MnDOT has reviewed the City of Edina 2040
Comprehensive Plan and have no comment. Thank you for
including MnDOT in the review process, and please contact me if
you have any questions.
MnDOT None
required
The forecasts on France Avenue are incorrect. I’ve attached two
maps of ours
A.) Existing 2017 counts along France Ave N of I-494 are
30,000
B.) Future 2040 forecasts at this location are 31,000
Hennepin
County
Change made
as requested
Thank you for the opportunity to review and comments on the
draft Edina 2040 plan update as part of the required jurisdictional
review. Our comments are focused on the Transportation and
Utilities elements.
Transportation – The City of Bloomington requests that Figure
5.22 Conceptual East/West Connector be revised to remove the
depicted connection south, across I-494. In the past,
Bloomington had explored creation of a bridge over I-494
between France and Normandale Boulevard. However, this idea
has since been discarded and this bridge was removed from our
comprehensive plan in 2008. The City of Bloomington is
interested in continuing to work cooperatively with the City of
Edina on comprehensive and coordinated transportation planning
in the area between East Bush Lake Road and France Avenue.
Utilities – The City of Bloomington does not have specific
comments, but wants to express our interest and support for
continued cooperation and collaboration regarding the MCES
interceptor. Bloomington’s comprehensive sewer system models
indicate that there will be future capacity issues with the MCES
interceptor that serves Edina and Bloomington downstream of
L55. The City strongly encourages continual, collaborative
review of interceptor capacity between the City of Edina, City of
Bloomington, and the Metropolitan Council.
City of
Bloomington
Changes made
to
transportation
and water
chapters per
request