HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-146 CCR Member April Graves introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 2015-146
RESOLUTION REQUESTING AND SUPPORTING THE MINNESOTA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE METROPOLITAN
COUNCIL TO UPDATE THE STATE'S TRANSPORTATION PLAN TO
INCLUDE A TRUNK HIGHWAY (TH) 252 FREEWAY CONVERSION
PROJECT AND TO IMMEDIATELY PROCEED WITH THE NECESSARY
FREEWAY CONVERSION STUDY, PLANNING, AND FUNDING FOR THIS
PROJECT
WHEREAS, TH 252 is one of the limited number of Principal Arterial
roadways linking communities in the northwest area of the Twin Cities; and
WHEREAS TH 252 is a regional highway that exists from I-94 to TH 610
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through the Cities of Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park, and has significant safety, congestion,
and neighborhood connectivity issues; and
WHEREAS, TH 252 exists as an expressway facility under the jurisdiction of
the Minnesota Department of Transportation with traffic that has exceeded the corridor capacity
but is currently not included in State's Transportation Plan to address the identified long-
standing corridor transportation issues or forecast traffic; and
WHEREAS TH 252 has some of the highest crash rates in the Twin Cities with
four fatalities on this 4 mile section of roadway between 2003-2013; and
WHEREAS, with the significant increase in the future forecast traffic and future
connection of TH 610 to I-94 in Maple Grove, it is imperative that TH 252 be properly improved
to accommodate this expected regional traffic while sustaining and improving local connectivity
and safety; and
WHEREAS, a technical advisory group consisting of transportation
professionals from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council,
Metropolitan Transit, the City of Brooklyn Park, and the City of Brooklyn Center have
determined that this corridor must be converted from an expressway to freeway to meet the
future transportation needs of the corridor and region; and
WHEREAS, a TH 252 Freeway Conversion Project would be of mutual benefit
to the State, the Cities of Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park, Hennepin County, and the
approximately 70,000 vehicles traveling daily through this corridor; and
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center is mutually committed to
collaboratively developing the TH 252 Project from the southerly termini at 1-94 through
Brooklyn Center, into Brooklyn Park to the northerly termini at TH 610.
RESOLUTION NO. 2015-146
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, that the City of Brooklyn Center hereby requests the Minnesota
Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Council to amend the State's Transportation
Plan for the immediate inclusion of the TH 252 Freeway Conversion Project and to immediately
proceed with the necessary conversion study, planning, and programming of funding for this
prof ect.
September 14, 2015
Date Mayor
ATTEST: Aodj&J� U rl
City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Dan Ryan
and upon vote being taken thereon,the following voted in favor thereof:
Tim Willson, April Graves, Kris Lawrence-Anderson, Lin Myszkowski, and Dan Ryan;
and the following voted against the same: none;
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.