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Home My WebLink About2015-11-19 MinutesDraft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: 12/17/2015 1 Minutes City Of Edina, Minnesota Transportation Commission Community Room November 19, 2015, 6:00 p.m. I. Call To Order Chair Bass called the meeting to order. II. Roll Call Answering roll call were members Bass, Boettge, Janovy, LaForce, Loeffelholz, Nelson, Olson, Ruehl, and Spanhake. Absent at roll call were members Ding and Iyer. III. Approval Of Meeting Agenda Motion was made by member Janovy and seconded by member LaForce approving the meeting agenda. All voted aye. Motion carried IV. Approval Of Meeting Minutes Motion was made by member Janovy and seconded by member Olson approving the edited Oct. 22, 2015, minutes. All voted aye. Motion carried. V. Special Recognitions and Presentations V.A. Grandview District Transportation Study Ms. Lydia Major with LHB and Ms. Zabe Bent with Nelson/Nygaard presented the goals and status of the transportation study. Also in attendance were Mr. Iain Banks with Nelson/Nygaard, and Mr. Colin Harris with Alta Planning. They explained that a small area study of the Grandview District was done and a key finding was to do a transportation study. The transportation study will accomplish seven goals all having to do with how pedestrians, bikers, and drivers get around the community, plus transit and parking. They will study the entire system and provide near term, short term and long term solutions. The public engagement process which began this week will include meetings over the course of several months. Individual members asked the following of the presenters: • Were there any surprises from the walking tour? How inhospitable it was for pedestrians and close proximity of everything. • Will the scope limits of the study include surrounding neighborhoods? Yes, so they can create connections. • What will the public engagement process include? Additional services were added to the study for focus groups with residents and business owners and intercepts; boards can be set up anywhere to inform and gather information. • What is the approximate timeframe for the first implementation? Timeframe isn’t known at this time. Draft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: 12/17/2015 2 VI. Community Comment – None. VII. Reports/Recommendations VII.A. Recommended 2016-2017 Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety Fund Projects Planner Nolan shared the projects that are scheduled for 2016-17. He said the budget for 2016 will be $1.8M, including roll over from 2015, and 2017 will be $1.4M (both years are fully budgeted). He reviewed key criteria for sidewalk recommendation. Individual members asked the following: • Are they building sidewalks fast enough? Approximately 2 miles are built annually which is in line with the 30-year build-out goal. • The missing segment of sidewalk on Valley View Road from Code Avenue to Clover Ridge creates a hole in the system (was scheduled for 2015). Planner Nolan was asked if the ETC can offer any help to get the sidewalk built and he said the road was constructed to accommodate the sidewalk at a future date. Motion was made by member Janovy and seconded by member LaForce to add the Valley View Road Sidewalk from Code Avenue to Clover Ridge for construction with 2017 proposed construction projects. All voted aye. Motion carried. • Look back at sidewalk feedback from the public to see which location(s) was named multiple times and add to the list for construction. • Missing segment of sidewalk on Valley View Road between Gleason Road to Mark Terrace Drive. • Is the current budget enough? Planner Nolan said a franchise fee increase would be necessary if the budget is not enough and secondly, sometimes money is rolled over to the next year because there is a limit to how many projects staff can handle in-house. • How do they evaluate if residents are happy with the rate of sidewalk installation and the cost from franchise fees? Suggested adding a question to the quality of life survey. • In addition to the Pavement Condition Index, consider prioritizing street reconstruction based on sidewalk needs. • Is there money for intersection improvements? Planner Nolan said only if a project is eliminated. Councilmember Stewart who was in attendance thanked members and staff for all the work they do. VII.B. Traffic Safety Report of Nov. 4, 2015 A.1. The 25 mph sign is being relocated to make it more obvious where the 25 mph speed limit begins. B.2. & B.3. It was noted that stop sign requests were frequently received from these areas and specifically, in B.3., the request is to slow traffic. How can they teach residents so they do not continue to request stop signs for slowing traffic? It was noted that there was a video available. A noted drawback to stop signs is noise and air pollution if vehicles are stopping and accelerating at every intersection. Motion was made by member LaForce and seconded by member Boettge to forward the Nov. 4, 2015, Traffic Safety Report to City Council. All voted aye. Motion carried. Draft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: 12/17/2015 3 VIII. Correspondence And Petitions – None. IX. Chair and Member Comments IX.A. Traffic Safety Process Review Committee Chair Bass stated the committee that includes her, members Janovy and Loeffelholz, met with the Traffic Safety Committee (TSC). She said they have three years of reports to review and they will look for patterns such as what was approved, etc. Member Loeffelholz said they will need to look at the data to tell what needs to be improved and chair Bass added that the TSC was established well before the Living Streets Policy and that it will be a process to align the TSC with new vision and policies. Member Nelson noted that a resident sent him an email regarding safety concerns on Olinger Road which he forwarded to planner Nolan. He also mentioned a noticeable bump in the road on W. 66th Street as you cross the bridge over TH-100 in the straight-thru lane. Chair Bass reported that at the all-chair meeting, they talked about functions and processes of boards and commissions including feedback on advisory communication, writing minutes to be consistent with City Council minutes, proposed format for forming working groups and receiving clarity from City Council when they direct them to work on a project not on their work plan. She said it was a good opportunity for chairs to share information and that this may become an annual or bi-annual meeting. Member Janovy expressed concerns about information that was not provided to the ETC as part of the Morningside A Neighborhood Roadway Reconstruction, namely in the Appendix, 17 households to wrote staff against the narrowing of streets and seeing their comments dissuaded her. She said residents raised questions that were not addressed. Planner Nolan said the public hearing on Dec. 8 will proceed as scheduled and residents will be able to address concerns to the City Council. X. Staff Comments • The 2015 projects are either complete or, are nearing completion; the W. 54th Street Bridge will open Nov. 20. • The sidewalk on Interlachen Boulevard is completed and is being used regularly. • A grant application was submitted for Safe Routes to School funding for the sidewalk on Oaklawn Avenue from W. 72nd Street to the cul-de-sac. Staff is reaching out to four property owners for an easement for the section that will connect to the Nine Mile Creek Trail on Parklawn Avenue. A meeting with residents is being planned for January. • Alliant Engineering was contracted to review extension of the bike facility on Valley View Road under TH-62. • Staff met with Hennepin County about the York Avenue and W. 66th Street intersection because extensive redevelopment is planned and the intersection is unsafe for pedestrians. They discussed ways to work with developers to improve each site which could include sidewalk, median refuge, etc. The City of Richfield will be improving their portion of W. 66th Street next year. • Manager Neal gave permission to use PACS funds to update the Bicycle Plan but planner Nolan said they should also try to find other funding sources to supplement. Draft Minutes☐ Approved Minutes☒ Approved Date: 12/17/2015 4 • The City will be vacating a transit easement on Galleria’s property in exchange for a pedestrian easement. • Cities are required to have an American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plan and as the ADA coordinator, planner Nolan is developing the plan. XI. Calendar of Events XI.A. Schedule of Meeting Dates/Events XII. Adjournment at 8:25p.m. TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ATTENDANCE J F M A M J* J A S O N D SM WS # of Mtgs Attendance % Meetings/Work Sessions 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 NAME TERM (Enter Date) 6/17 Bass, Katherine 2/1/2017 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Boettge, Emily 2/1/2017 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Ding, Emily 1 1 2 67% Iyer, Surya 3/1/2018 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 83% LaForce, Tom 3/1/2018 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Loeffelholz, Ralf 3/1/2018 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 80% Janovy, Jennifer 2/1/2017 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Nelson, Paul 2/1/2016 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 100% Olson, Larry 3/1/2017 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Whited, Courtney 2/1/2015 1 1 100% Spanhake, Dawn 2/1/2016 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 92% Ruehl, Lindsey 1 1 1 3 100% Rummel, Anna 9/1/2015 1 1 1 3 25% Campbell, Jack 9/1/2015 1 1 1 1 4 33% *cancelled