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From YouTube: September 29, 2015 Transportation & Public Works
Description
Minneapolis Transportation & Public Works Committee Meeting
A
A
good
morning
or
this
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
transportation
Public
Works
Committee
constant
of
rike
I'll,
be
chairing
the
committee
and
joined
by
my
colleagues
on
the
committee
of
compliments,
palmisano,
gordon
and
bender,
and
you're
a
quorum
and
can
proceed
with
today's
business.
We
have
nine
items
that
includes
a
walk-on.
That's
on
the
agenda,
make
that
number
eight
and
make
eight
number
nine,
so
I'll
be
number
eight,
which
is
a
petition
to
acquire
use
of
right
away
of
a
rail
line
and
that
printed
in
red,
I'm,
her
agenda
and
so.
A
With
that
I'll
go
through
the
consent
items,
including
that
new
item,
anyone
can
call
an
item
if
they
wish
item
number
two
is
18th
avenue:
north
street
reconstruction
project,
that's
project
layout
and
set
of
easements
for
that
project.
That
goes
from
monroe
street
northeast
to
johnson
street
northeast
item.
A
That
will
be
referred.
Aways
Means
Committee
item
7
is
a
bid
for
a
revised
signal
system,
pedestrian
curb
ramp
improvements
and
that
it
is
going
to
be
referred
to
the
Ways
and
Means
Committee
as
well,
and
then
the
walk
on
item,
which
is
a
time
sensitive
item
consistent
with
our
access
Minneapolis
plan,
as
approving
and
authorizing
and
filing
the
petition
to
acquire
use
of
right
away
over
rail
line
and
proposed
to
be
abandoned.
A
Brand
room
trail
use
in
renovating,
pursuant
to
f
of
49
CFR
115
2.29,
signed
by
the
City
Attorney's
Office,
and
submitted
to
the
United
States
surface
transportation
board
on
September
23
2015.
Those
are
the
consent
items.
Does
a
pretty
member
wish
to
pull
any
/
discussion
I've
seen
not
all
in
favor,
say
aye.
I
sent
a
name.
You
now
move
to
our
public
hearing,
which
is
the
sanitary
sewer
availability
charge,
also
known
as
the
sack
charges
morning.
Mr.
cocky
good.
B
C
C
The
sanitary
or
the
sanitary
sewer
availability
charge,
also
known
as
sac,
is
a
fee
that
is
imposed
upon
municipalities
by
the
Metropolitan
Council
environmental
services.
They
charge
each
municipality
and
in
the
city
of
Minneapolis.
We
then
therefore
charge
the
property
owner
or
person
making
that
change
the
met.
The
met
council
therefore
doesn't
charge
any
individual
properties
directly.
C
They
also
have
a
process
called
by
which
they
audit
agencies
and
so
they'll
go
through
records
and
look
at
various
different
things
and
sometimes
find
ones
that
have
been
missed
or
processes
that
have
changed
or
buried
the
one
that
we're
I'm
here
on
for
today
is
a
single
business.
They
changed
from.
C
A
Are
they
any
questions
for
the
presentation
see
none
I
will
open
the
public
hearing
honest
of
public
hearing
item
number
one
sanitary
sewer,
service
availability,
charge
assessments,
anyone
signed
in
no
one
signed
in.
Does
anyone
wish
to
come
forward?
Anyone
wish
to
come
forward,
seeing
no
one
I
will
close
the
public
hearing
and
move
the
item
before
us
for
the
presentation,
any
further
discussion,
I'm,
seeing
none
all
in
favor,
say
aye
descension
name
that
carries.
A
A
D
Thank
you
as,
as
just
said
this
has
been
presented.
This
is
actually
a
fourth
time.
It's
appeared
new
committee
once
at
cmp,
then
twice
at
CD
NRS,
so
I
will
keep
the
overview
to
a
minimum
in
terms
of
why
we
are
here
and
the
purpose
of
an
innovation
district.
As
all
of
you
know,
there's
been
a
great
deal
of
internal
and
external
conversation
about
the
expectations
about
this,
and
what
this
could
mean
for
the
city.
D
I
will
focus
today
on
what
it
could
mean
for
Public
Works,
especially
the
capital
improvements
planned
the
district
and
in
question
that
we're
talking
about
is
probably
familiar
with
you.
It's
the
university
area,
one
that
spans
the
st.
Paul
Minneapolis
boundary,
but
on
our
side
of
course,
focuses
in
the
prospect
north
area
along
the
Green
Line.
D
The
intent
again
is
to
foster
an
environment
of
innovation
and
change
of
new
growth
and
development
that
exceeds
expectations
goes
about
what
we
would
see
as
business
as
usual,
and
builds
on
the
unique
advantages
of
this
location
and
of
the
city
in
partnership
between
the
public,
private
nonprofit
sector
and,
of
course,
the
university
major
research
institution.
In
our
midst
here,
as
mentioned
before,
this
is
a
mission
that
spans
of
all
committees
in
the
subject
of
many
discussions,
just
to
focus
on
what
the
public
works
in
the
capital
structure
is
in
this.
D
In
terms
of
this
area,
there
are
very
near
term,
and
I
would
say,
ongoing
obligations
that
have
been
taken
place
and
have
been
part
of
this
discussion.
Public
Works
staff
and
leadership
have
been
involved
in
the
partnership
meetings
and
some
projects
that
are
currently
underway.
They've
already
been
approvals
in
front
of
you
relate
to
fourth
Street
southeast
reconstruction,
also
known
as
green
fourth
and
several
other
names.
This
is
setting
the
stage
for
developing
this
area.
The
starting
place,
of
course,
for
the
city
is
what
is
our
standards
orders
our
baseline
requirements?
D
But
this
resolution
indicates
a
mobility
to
have
conversations
over
and
about
beyond
to
say
how
can
the
city's,
based
on
investments
similar
to
elsewhere
in
the
city
be
leveraged
and
built
upon
with
additional
funding
sources
and
additional
resources
to
create
something
new
and
innovative
to
incorporate
best
practices
elsewhere
and
some
different
ways
of
handling
the
public
realm
and
the
infrastructure
in
a
way
that
can
serve
this
area?
One
particular
example
is
district
systems
and
that's
another.
D
Ongoing
discussion
has
been
with
Public
Works
relate
to
the
chance
to
do
a
sustainable
district,
storm
water
and
wastewater
treatment
facilities
in
this
area.
There
have
been
a
lot
of
ideas
versus
reality
on
that,
so
it's
still
in
process
not
finalized,
but
this
is
a
chance
to
sort
of
explore
what's
possible
in
this
area.
The
another
component
that's
ongoing
is
is
the
assistance
of
technical
assistance
on
the
studies
as
needed.
As
the
resolution
makes
clear.
D
This
is
not
at
this
point
of
obliging
any
new
resources
or
any
new
effort
over
and
above
what's
already
in
the
works,
but
it
does
indicate
that
should
be
part
of
the
discussion
to
say
one.
Is
it
appropriate
to
bring
staff
resources
in
when
does
that?
What
connect
advance
this
in
similar
areas
in
the
city?
As
noted,
this
is
about
designated
just
one
district,
but
as
as
innovation
district
language
has
written,
it's
never
been
the
intent
that
this
would
be
the
only
necessarily
be
the
only
one
in
the
city.
D
This
could
frame
at
the
discussion
for
other
areas
with
similar
challenges
and
opportunities
that
could
be
designated
in
the
future.
In
our
larger
presentation,
we
talked
about
some
of
those
I'll
keep
that
minimum
here,
but
that
can
be
part
of
the
discussion
as
well.
Of
the
biggest
question
with
this
regards
is
to
ongoing,
not
just
what's
ongoing,
but
what
is
can
come
in
the
future.
This
does
tee
up
the
potential
for
additional
asks
and
additional
conversations
around
more
resources
around
more
improvements.
D
There
are
more
anticipated
in
this
area,
and
your
packet
outlines
very
generally
some
of
the
categories
where
this
might
be
explored
again.
We
we
have
been
emphasizing
that
this,
this
innovation
district
resolution
by
itself
does
not
allocate
any
additional
resources.
It
just
says
sets
the
stage
for
those
discussions
in
the
future
and,
of
course
it
will
have
taken
court
case.
The
other
priorities
in
the
city
in
terms
of
infrastructure
needs
and
other
investments.
A
E
Gordon,
thank
you
very
much
did
want
to
mention
a
couple
things.
First
of
all,
I'm
incredibly
excited
about
doing
this.
A
few
weeks
ago,
we
did
pass
a
resolution
that
we
would
create
innovation,
districts
and
we're
going
to
make
that
part
of
the
comp
plan,
and
so
this
would
make
this
the
first
innovation,
district
or
gonna
try,
which
is
a
little
bit
ahead
of
the
way
we
might
want
to
do.
E
It
is
kind
of
one
of
those
design,
build
projects,
I
think,
and
so
it's
been
a
little
bit
difficult
may
be
landing
here
and
getting
here,
I
think
this
is
incredibly
significant
because
st.
Paul's,
a
partner,
the
University
of
Minnesota,
all
the
property
owners,
are
at
the
table,
and
actually
this
is
so
responding
and
trying
to
work
with
community
members,
which
is
really
significant.
E
One
of
the
things
I
wanted
to
do
that
this
media
was
kind
of
highlight
on
the
change
that
it
took
to
get
this
through
the
resolution
I'm
just
so
the
council
members
more
informed
about
this,
because
there
was
kind
of
some
meeting
some
outside
of
the
committee,
and
we
had
to
kind
of
come
to
terms.
So
there
was
a
the
most
significant
thing
that
occurred
as
we
actually
took
out
something
from
the
result
clause.
We
had
something
in
the
resolution
originally.
E
E
There
are
pool
resources
accumulated
to
the
about
five
million
dollars
at
this
point,
all
for
the
intention
of
supporting
streets
and
roads
and
infrastructure
for
economic
development,
we've
kind
of
been
waiting
for
several
years
for
some
kind
of
a
workforce,
development
project,
bioscience
engineering-
we
don't
know
what
it
hasn't
happened.
Some
of
those
districts
will
be
sun
setting
at
the
end
of
the
year.
E
So
essentially
we
discuss
this
I
discussed
it
with
council
members
and
decided
that
the
appropriate
thing
and
to
do
in
part
so
that
this
could
be
passed
is
to
is
to
not
fight
to
try
to
preserve
some
of
those
pool
resources,
but
to
let
that
some
of
those
go
back
into
the
city
coppers
into
the
general
fund
so
or
possibly
recaptured
for
affordable
housing
throughout
the
city.
There
is
still
a
little
bit
of
the
pool
to
funding
that
will
go
till
2016,
so
hopefully
that
can
be
held
over.
E
But
what
that
showed
me
was
our
philosophy,
our
discussion.
Our
policies
about
tiff
are
confusing.
It's
unclear
what
we
can
and
can't
do
with
them,
there's
great
opportunity
here
if
we
could
use
some
kind
of
tax
increment
financing
to
make
a
part
to
treat
wastewater
management
to
actually
build
the
streets
that
we
need
to
get
the
development
here
and
I.
Just
because
I
think
we've
we've
admitted
that
we
don't
need
to
investigate
the
feasibility
of
using
the
cool
tip
at
this
point.
E
I
hope
that
we're
open
to
figuring
out
how
we
might
be
able
to
use
the
tool
tax
increment
financing
to
for
the
greater
good
for
this
area
in
other
areas
in
the
future,
and
what
that
teed
up
for
me
kind
of
is.
We
maybe
need
to
have
a
bigger
discussion
about
what
we're
supposed
to
do
about
tax
increment
financing
and
what
is
the
city
policy
here,
because
just
investigating
the
feasibility
of
using
some
of
the
resources
that
have
been
sitting
there
unused
for
all
this
time
created
such
a
stir
up
here
showed
me.
A
F
You
mr.
chair
we've
discussed
this
in
several
other
instances,
but
I
I
think
it's
important
that
it
did
come
to
the
EPW
committee,
because
I
think
that
actually
the
most
significant
pieces
of
the
public
component
of
this
is
the
public
infrastructure.
Piece
and
I
have
interacted
with
the
innovation
district
as
a
planning
Commissioner.
F
In
the
you
know,
this
pool
of
private
sector
developers
who've
been
working
with
the
partnership
and
councilmember
Gordon's
office.
So
you
know
a
lack
of
clarity
about
the
public
sectors.
Commitment
is
impacting
real-time
project
private
sector
project
right
now.
In
fact,
weeks
ago,
they
were
at
the
Planning
Commission
saying
that,
and
so
I
hope
this
will
help
kind
of
unstick
the
ambiguity
of
our
commitment
to
some
of
these
public
pieces,
which
will
I,
think
enhance
the
response
that
we're
seeing
from
the
private
sector.
F
We
are
seeing
development
here,
but
in
order
to
fully
maximize
the
potential
of
those
three
transit
stations
and
the
already
significant
public
investment
here,
I
think
there
are
some
things,
particularly
on
the
public
infrastructure
side
that
have
to
do
with
the
shared
stormwater
management,
the
roads
that
are
needed
to
fill
in
the
grid.
Here
that
you
know
if
the
city
doesn't
bring
that
forward,
there's
really
no
one
else
in
the
position
to
do
that
and
to
support
again
the
significant
amount
of
private
investment.
F
My
vote
here
today
signifies
that
I
think
that
this
is
an
important
piece
of
work
for
our
public
works
department
to
take
on
and
that
I
think
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
are
working
together
with
this
partnership
that
has
come
forward
a
really
community
driven
process
and
be
a
full
supportive
partner.
In
this
conversation,.