City of Minneapolis, MN 2022 Minneapolis City Council and Committee Meetings, 11 Aug 2022

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From YouTube: August 11, 2022 Public Works & Infrastructure Committee

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Bioretention areas, one of which is in front of city hall, that you may have even seen today.

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42Nd street east was reconstructed from 46th avenue south to rest, west river parkway, the redesign included a sidewalk level bikeway new sidewalks and curb extensions at most intersections and an updated streetscape with green infrastructure.

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Grand avenue south this project consists of a reconstruction of nearly two miles of grand avenue south in total, from 48th to lake street in 2021 the southern portion was completed. This project consists of an improved pedestrian realm, with curb extensions at intersections traffic safety improvements such as chicanes alternated parking and pedestrian refuge islands.

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The revision of various transit stops were included as well as hardened center lines. Something to note on this project. 126 bioswales were installed along the corridor and this is over. So this can treat up to 55 000 cubic feet of water and that's over half the volume of an olympic sized swimming pool.

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Plymouth avenue north this project was an entire right-of-way reconstruction between xerxes avenue, north and penn avenue north. It provides important connections to theodore worth park, has upgraded 88, ped ramps and boulevard space, a sidewalk level bikeway facility and pedestrian refuge islands and curb extensions and most intersections.

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Johnson street northeast these images are photos of johnson street northeast constructed from 18th avenue to lowry avenue northeast this project featured upgraded ada, ped ramps, pedestrian refuge islands, as well as new sidewalks and a sidewalk level bikeway. This bikeway allowed for improved bicycle connectivity with connections to 18th, which was constructed in 2017 and 2018, stretching from monroe to johnson street.

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This project also added boulevard space that was almost entirely comprised of native plants as opposed to sod. It included trees and pedestrian. Curb extensions as well.

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These photos show the 10th avenue bridge. This bridge was due for major updates, and we saw this as a great opportunity to make needed improvements and help build back better than before, with two-way on-street career-protected bike lanes and expanded pedestrian zones with north and southbound sidewalks.

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Franklin avenue west was resurfaced from hennepin avenue south to oliver avenue on-street bike lanes were added and advisory bike lanes were included where parking was retained.

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The reconstruction of weber, parkway and 44th avenue north was led by the county, so this was a cooperative project.

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This project provided major connections to victory, memorial, parkway, the weber, natural swimming pool and other important north minneapolis parks and amenities bike facilities with various bike and trail connections were added, as well as parking bays, green infrastructure and ada pedestrian ramp upgrades.

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Another cooperative project is d-line. Construction began in 2021 on the 18-mile d-line that will replace route 5 with fast frequent, all-day service, running primarily along chicago avenue, south of minneapolis and then up on fremont and emerson and north. The d-line features updated and ada infrastructure and improved transit stops along the corridor.

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Next, I want to move on to some of our pedestrian-focused accomplishments in 2021.

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These included over 11 miles of pedestrian realm improvements, including sidewalks and boulevards 242, curb extensions, almost six miles of pedestrian lighting along the corridor, lighting corridor, 6.8 miles of safety, conversions and over a thousand ada pedestrian ramp upgrades.

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This slide shows the vision, zero, pedestrian improvement at 37th and nicolette, so this photo is taken again 37th and nicolet, and this shows a ballard curb extension as well as signage that was installed in partnership with the university of minnesota to study yield compliance on streets.

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This second photo is located at 21st and lindale, so these safety improvements were made alongside the 4-3 implementation, and this image shows a baller pedestrian median and the far view sidewalk gap project was located at far view park on 4th avenue north from 26th to 28th street this project added sidewalk within the park and added to an existing trail network. It provided sidewalks where there were previously none no trees were removed during this project and ada ramps, pedestrian ramps were installed on all four intersections.

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All four corners excuse me of the intersections.

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At second street, northeast and third avenue northeast is a project. That's part of our pedestrian safety program and featured vegetated medians. These medians were community driven. Early engagement demonstrated a strong preference for sustainable landscaping over concrete, and this resulted in just under 2 000 square feet of vegetation and one tree, an interim condition which you can see in the photo showed a ballard median. It's showing a baller medium and the final project also upgraded ada infrastructure and pedestrian ramps.

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Finally, in 2021, like I said earlier, when reading off some of those statistics over a thousand ada ramps, were replaced and upgraded in every single word of the city. This map gives an overview of some of those locations.

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It is not complete, it is not exhaustive, but it does give a good picture of of where we updated most of those ramps.

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And then this presentation will conclude with some of our bicycle: focused accomplishments in 2021, so almost nine miles of new bicycle facilities were installed. 7.6 miles of protected bike lanes and 4.2 of those miles were in acp 50 areas.

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This photo was taken on. um Oh, this is the lydia. Excuse me whittier, lindale bikeway. It runs over two miles, primarily along first avenue, south and blaisdell avenue. South the bikeway features a two-way bikeway, with curb and baller protection, as well as crossing improvements for pedestrians and along the route. There are 12 medians vegetated with native plants and the addition of 65 trees.

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Thank you all for the opportunity to share some of our 2021 work and accomplishments with you. This concludes my presentation um and I'm happy to stand for any questions. If there aren't any.

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Thank you miss fass. I will. I will note that we have been joined by council member wansley and uh we have a question or comment from councilmember wansley.

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Thank you, chair johnson, uh just actually quickly. I think it was like three slides previous where uh acp I I just wanted to get a sense of what the acp was yep. Oh, okay, yes, okay,.

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Yep, um acp 50 locations um are defined as where 50 or more of the population, our residents of color and 40 more of the residents, have family incomes that are 185 under the federal poverty threshold.

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Awesome no- um and thank you so much for this thorough presentation really really um great to see how our public works staff is really investing in expanding. You know not only bike passages across the city, but also ada compliance. That's a big!

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You know concern that we get in our ward and really great to see that we're growing that work across the city and have it be reflective in data in front of us today for the public to be able to see for themselves. So thank you so much for putting this together.

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Excellent, thank you councilmember any other comments or questions from committee members.

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I will just echo the thanks for the presentation. I mean this is first off great presentation, but it's reflective of a huge amount of work that is happening all across the board within public works and it's thoroughly impressive and we're grateful to see all of these improvements across our city. I know vice chair koski nudged me when you mentioned the bio swells, which are, I always love, seeing those more than 100 of those, that's amazing, but it's it's really great. All the different ways that we're improving the infrastructure in a really comprehensive way.

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So councilmember wansley one.

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More question I forgot. Thank you, chair johnson. um I know a couple of months ago we received a presentation from I think our bike and pedestrian advisory committee- and um I know one of the things that they raised was wanting to you know, strengthen their involvement in some of our policies as it relates to this. Can you talk to or speak to ways in which that committee was also involved and kind of the work that you've led around expanding bike um passages the safety around it also ada compliance.

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um Chair johnson, council member wansley, thank you for the question. um Yes, if I'm, if I'm understanding the question correctly, um yeah the the pedestrian action committee, the bicycle action committee, as we um can go through the cip process, these are both committees that we bring the cip to you know throughout the duration of the cycle, and so I think, involving the bac and the pac as well as getting feedback at various points, um is, is definitely critical, so I mean I will say the you know the major improvements that you know.

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I was able to outline in this presentation. um You know, I think that they, along with that feedback from the bac and psa, do help people feel more comfortable, walking, biking taking transit. um You know in in sort of um yeah, I think in addition to the you know, work that we shared here.

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um We also have that complete streets policy which guides how the streets are rebuilt and repaved, so we certainly have been taking the opportunity, be it through that avenue, be it through these committees to you know, every single time we have the opportunity to add pedestrian and bicycle and transit improvements.

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um You know in even if we're just repaving the street, we take that opportunity so, along with the standalone programs that we have for just that infrastructure we're definitely using the opportunity of our paving work as well to increase the mobility for people who are walking and biking. You know whether that's again that bike or head infrastructure, as well as ada improvements.

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Awesome, um I'm also going to let my constituents know many of them know I don't know how to ride a bike. So this is great infrastructure that my myself uh yeah, I can't use, but I'm lobbying for a tricycle committee, because we matter I'm not talking I'm doing tricycles, I'm bringing the tricycles back, I'm committed to it. We are out here, alongside our our bicycle folks, no, but thank you so much good to know that those respective committees have been you know activated in this process and really thought of them.

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As you presented pieces of this work too,.

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Excellent, thank you councilmember I'll. Take that as a staff direction around the tri-school committee. We might as well do unicycles while we're at.

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Too, I've seen those around here, so uh we we really appreciate this uh presentation is fantastic. So thank you so much, I'm not seeing any other comments or questions from my colleagues. So this is a receiving file uh item so without any objection, I'll direct the clerk to receive and file this report, and with that we have no further business on our agenda, so I will declare this meeting adjourned thanks. Everyone have a great rest of your week and weekend.

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