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Home My WebLink About2019-05-16 MinutesDraft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: June 20, 2019 Minutes City Of Edina, Minnesota Transportation Commission Community Conference Room May 16, 2019 I. Call To Order Chair Richman called the meeting to order II. Roll Call Answering roll call were Commissioners Ahler, Johnson, Kane, McCarthy, Olson, Plumb-Smith, Richman, Ruthruff, Scherer Absent: Commissioner Ayelomi, Zimbwa III. Approval Of Meeting Agenda Motion was made by Commissioner Johnson and seconded by Commissioner Ruthruff to approve the agenda. All voted aye. Motion carried. IV. Approval Of Meeting Minutes Motion was made by Commissioner Olson and seconded by Commissioner McCarthy approving the April 18, 2019 meeting minutes. All voted aye. Motion carried. V. Special Recognitions and Presentations None. VI. Community Comment None. VII. Reports/Recommendations A. Traffic Safety Report Motion was made by Commissioner Olson and seconded by Commissioner Johnson to approve the April 30, 2019 Traffic Safety Report. All voted aye. Motion Carried. B. 2019 Work Plan Updates • #1 Planning their 3rd meeting. Will start sharing meeting minutes via email. o At work session, there was a lot of interest from Council on TDM in regards to new developments. o Use education of traffic studies to assist with developments. • #2 Traffic study educational seminar may be helpful in working with Planning Commission on transportation-related issues • #3 Article published in the Sun Current Draft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: June 20, 2019 • #4 CloverRide is going well. A couple of items to follow up o Expansion of CloverRide by adding North Loop to connect at Southdale with the South Loop o Agreement with Darts goes to council on May 21st. • #5 Staff meeting with Heidi Lee, R&E Coordinator, to determine how the PACS fund could be used through race and equity lens VIII. Chair And Member Comments Commissioner Ahler spoke to the commission about resignation due to attendance. She stated she had an amazing trip and shared some transportation-related photos. (Upon further review, there was a miscommunication of the Board and Commission attendance policy. Therefore, an exception was made to allow Commissioner Ahler to remain on the commission.) Commissioner McCarthy said that Minneapolis is currently debating not approving new drive-thrus. Commissioner Olson said that there are no marked crosswalks at 69th and France. Commissioner Scherer said that the house bill to lower residential speed limits to 25 mph passed at the state and it is now up to individual cities to make those changes. 50th and France should be closed to vehicle traffic, similar to Nicollet Mall. Commissioner Richman was concerned that there wasn’t much feedback from residents on the transportation chapter of the comp plan. She reminded the ETC that Bike to Work Day is being held May 17th. She also stated the road construction is going well by her home. She requested that the traffic impact study presentation slides for next month be included in the agenda packet. IX. Staff Comments • The draft Comprehensive Plan was approved by City Council and now goes to 6-month agency review stage. • CP Rail Regional Trail was presented to Park and Rec Commission and was well-received. • Public engagement reports for W 58th St and W 72nd St projects will go to Council on June 4th. • Metro Transit E Line has 3 different alignment options from Lake Harriet to Southdale; 3 open houses will be held next week in Minneapolis. • I-494: Airport to Hwy 169 project update will be presented to Council May 21st. • Next meeting will include educational seminar from Spack Consulting on traffic impact studies. • 2020 work plan development begins in June. X. Schedule of Meeting and Events as of May 9th, 2019 For information purposes only, no discussion. XI. Adjournment at 7:43 p.m. Motion was made by Commissioner Olson and seconded by Commissioner Ruthruff to adjourn the May 16th, 2019 meeting. All voted Aye. Motion Carried. Draft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: June 20, 2019 TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ATTENDANCE J F M A M J J A S O N D # of Mtgs Attendance % Meetings/Work Sessions 1 1 1 1 1 5 NAME Ahler, Mindy 1 1 2 40% Johnson, Kirk 1 1 1 1 1 5 100% Kane, Bocar 1 1 1 1 4 80% McCarthy, Bruce 1 1 1 3 60% Olson, Larry 1 1 1 1 4 80% Plumb-Smith, Jill 1 1 100% Richman, Lori 1 1 1 1 1 5 100% Ruthruff, Erik 1 1 1 1 1 5 100% Scherer, Matthew 1 1 1 3 60% Veluvali, Shankar 1 RESIGNED 1 N/A Emmanual Ayelomi (s) 1 1 20% Yeukai Zimbwa (s) 0 0%