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RESOLUTION NO.
114-91
A Resolution Requesting the Minnesota Department of Transportation
to Expeditiously complete the Vine Hill Road Intersection
project at State Trunk Highway 7
WHEREAS, the City of Shorewood and the Minnesota Department of
Transportation (MnDOT) have worked jointly for several years toward
the improved traffic flow on State Trudk Highway 7 (S. T. H. 7)
through the City of Shorewood; and
WHEREAS, the improvement of the Christmas Lake Road
intersection has been delayed indefinitely; and
WHEREAS, MnDOT has identified the intersection at vine Hill
Road as one of the most hazardous in the Metro-Golden Valley
District (formerly District 5); -and
WHEREAS, the S.T.H.7 Corridor Study-Final Report, dated
November 1986, recommended that:
"...The first project which needs to be implemented in this
area is the upgrading of the Vine Hill Road/S.T.H.7
intersection..."; and
WHEREAS, MnDOT and the City of Shorewood have worked together
in building an intersection at Old Market Road and S.T.H.7 in 1991;
and
WHEREAS, a majority of the service road connecting the Old
Market Road intersection to the Vine Hill Road intersection is
currently being installed with the Old Market Road intersection
project; and
WHEREAS, upgrading the Vine Hill Road/S.T.H.7 intersection
will expedite upgrading service roads to the east in Minnetonka;
and
WHEREAS, during the planning phase of the Old Market Road
improvement, the Vine Hill Road improvement was to immediately
follow in the 1992 construction season; and
WHEREAS, the City Council commenced the construction of the
Old Market Road intersection with the understanding that the Vine
Hill Road would be rebuilt in concert; and
WHEREAS, the City has now learned that the latest MnDOT time
schedule calls for construction of the Vine Hill Road intersection
improvement in 1994; and
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WHEREAS, a special Transportation Task Force created by the
City to review the Old Market Road intersection and make
recommendations to minimize the effect on the neighborhood of
increased traffic due to the new intersection, has raised serious
concerns for opening the Old Market Road intersection without the
immediate completion of the Vine Hill Road intersection
improvement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the
City of Shorewood formally requests the timely completion of the
Vine Hill Road intersection project with construction to begin as
originally planned in 1992.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Shorewood, Minnesota,
this 28th day of October 1991.
AT EST:
J es C. Hurm
c,ty Administrator