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Jul
10
On Thursday, July 10th, at 6:30 pm, MLK Park, MnDOT along with Minneapolis
public works staff will host a meeting for residents about proposed sound
walls from 42nd Street to 35th Street. Individual notices have been mailed
to residents in those blocks on Stevens, 2nd Avenue, as well as 1st Ave and
3rd Ave.
The sound walls are proposed as part of a project called the Urban
Partnership Agreement, which will provide a dedicated bus lane/HOV lane on
35W going north of the Crosstown Commons to downtown. You can read more
about this project at http://www.dot.state.mn.us/funding/upa/. Design would
be finalized in late August with the project put out to bid sometime after
that. Construction would begin at the earliest in Spring 2009.
As part of the Crosstown Commons projects, neighbors along the frontage
roads were engaged in a process to determine 1) if they desired sound walls;
2) their input on some available design elements for sound walls. These
same choices will be available to residents from 42nd Street to 35th Street.
I’ve asked our staff to review the process used to determine resident wishes
for the Crosstown Commons so that we could use a similar process — we will
share that with you prior to July 10th. The process will involve some
individualized contact with residents by either our staff or MnDOT staff.
Residents will not get to have choice on whether to have or not have a sound
wall on a block-by-block basis. Rather, MnDOT has a process to determine
cost effectiveness/sound effectiveness of sound walls that utilizes
multi-block segments. (i.e. in some sections between 35th and 42nd these
will be 2-block segments, in one instance there is a 4-block segment).
MnDOT will provide that map on July 10th and I have asked our staff to
ensure these and other relevant documents are available on-line.
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