2022-831
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE: November 14, 2022 RESOLUTION NO: 2022-83
MOTION BY: McDonald SECONDED BY: Rehm
A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE HIGHWAY 5 ARBORETUM AREA PROJECT
2022 MINNESOTA CORRIDORS OF COMMERCE REQUEST
WHEREAS, the Cities of Chanhassen, Victoria, and Chaska, Carver County, and the
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), are responsible for the planning and
development of a safe and functional multimodal transportation system within their jurisdictional
boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Chanhassen partnered with Carver County, the Minnesota
Department of Transportation (MnDOT), the City of Victoria, and the City of Chaska to identify
transportation system improvements in the area of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
including Highway 5, Highway 41, Rolling Acres Road, Bavaria Road, and 82nd Street West;
and
WHEREAS, the Arboretum Area Transportation Plan includes an implementation
framework with estimated improvement costs, project sequencing, and timeframes to guide
capital improvement planning for Carver County, MnDOT, the City of Chanhassen, the City of
Victoria, the City of Chaska, and their partners for improvements along Highway 5, Highway 41,
Rolling Acres Road, and Bavaria Road; and
WHEREAS, the Highway 5 Arboretum Area Project is a high priority project to address
critical transportation system failures on a trunk highway and regional thoroughfare; and,
WHEREAS, once funded and constructed the Highway 5 Arboretum Area Project will
provide safer, faster, and more reliable movement of goods and people through the Carver
County and the metropolitan region; and
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Legislature allocated $250 million to the Corridors of
Commerce Program to fund statewide projects with the goal of fostering economic growth,
enabling of goods to be transported through a commerce friendly network of corridors, and
providing additional mobility to its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the Corridors of Commerce program is a competitive funding opportunity
that funds projects that foster economic growth, enable goods to be transported through a
commerce friendly network of corridors, and provide additional mobility to citizens; and
WHEREAS, the Corridors of Commerce funding is to be awarded on a competitive basis
to projects that will have a significant local or regional impact.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Chanhassen City
Council supports Carver County’s 2022 Corridor of Commerce request for funds to construct the
Highway 5 Arboretum Area Project and is committed to a continued project partnership to get
this high priority project implemented.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Chanhassen City Council this 14th day of November
2022.
ATTEST:
Kim Meuwissen, City Clerk Elise Ryan, Mayor
YES NO ABSENT
Ryan
McDonald
Campion
Rehm
Schubert
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