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CITY OF CHANHASSEN -
Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing for Today and Planning for Tomorrow
TO: Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
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FROM: Paul Oehme, Dir. of Public Works/City Engineer '
DATE: June 12, 2017-�'
SUBJ: Crimson Bay Road Connection to W. 78`h Street and TH 5 Intersection Improvements
Project No. 18-03: Approve Resolution for Grant Application
PROPOSED MOTION
"The City Council Approves a Resolution of Support for a Grant Application for Crimson Bay Road
Connection to Dogwood Road and TH 5 Intersection Improvements."
City Council approval requires a simple majority vote of the City Council present.
Staff is requesting that the City Council approve a resolution of support for a grant application for
improvements to Crimson Bay Road. The grant application is for construction of a road connection from
the cul-de-sac on Crimson Bay Road to W. 78`h Street and construction of a right-in/right-out at Crimson
Bay Road and TH 5. The improvements are proposed to enhance operations and increase safety at both
the intersections of Crimson Bay Road and TH 5 and W. 78'h Street and TH 41.
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Todd Gerhardt
Crimson Bay Road: Grant Application
June 12, 2017
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Presently, the residents of Crimson Bay Road have a single access to enter and exit their neighborhood.
That access is a full intersection with TH 5 and the entrance to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
Residents have expressed concerns to City staff regarding difficultly turning left onto eastbound TH 5
with increasing traffic volumes, particularly during peak hours. This proposed project would create a
connection from their neighborhood to TH 41 via W. 78`h Street. The Crimson Bay Road residents
would then be able to utilize the stop light at TH 41 and TH 5 to turn left onto TH 5. The existing
intersection of Crimson Bay Road and TH 5 would become a right-inhight-out intersection thereby
reducing the number of conflict points and increasing safety per MnDOT requirement at that access.
This change is consistent with the TH 5 corridor study completed in 2008.
Westwood Church has also contacted City staff with concerns about the traffic created by their Sunday
services. Westwood Church currently has only two ways to leave the site and both = stop controlled,
full intersections with TH 7; TH 7 and Tanadoona Drive and TH 5 and and W. 781' Street. The church
has requested a connection to Crimson Bay Road so their congregants could utilize a right-in/right-out
intersection to get directly onto westbound TH 5. Westwood Church anticipates approximately 125-220
vehicles per service may utilize this connection. This would relieve the congestion that is occurring at
the TH 41 intersections. Presently, Westwood Church contracts with local police agencies to direct
traffic during Sunday services due to the high volumes of traffic at the TH 41 intersection.
The 2030 Comprehensive Plan identifies both the intersection at Crimson Bay Road and TH 5, and the
absence of a connection from Crimson Bay Road to W. 78`h Street as existing system deficiencies. The
proposed project aligns with the 2030 Comprehensive Plan's recommendations to correct the
deficiencies.
The grant application is through MnDOT's Metro Municipal Agreement program. The Municipal
Agreement Program provides funding for construction projects that are developed and administered by
local agencies and provide a benefit to both the local community and the trunk highway system. The
funds are intended to pay for a portion of the construction costs of the project. Right-of-way, utility
relocation, and design costs are not eligible for funding.
If the City's application is successful, the grant will provide additional funding for construction of the
street connection for Crimson Bay Road to W. 78`h Street and the intersection improvements at TH 5 and
Crimson Bay Road. Staff identified the Municipal Agreement Program as a possible source of funding.
The estimated project cost is $280,000.00. Staff is proposing to request $236,000.00 from the grant
program. The City would be responsible for the remaining $44,000.00 cost of the project.
Funding for the City's portion of the project would come from assessments of benefitting properties and
the Revolving Assessment Fund. This project would be combined with a reconstruction project for the
existing Crimson Bay Road to achieve a cost savings for the scale of the project.
Successful grant applications will be posted in October, 2017. If successful, funds for the project would
become available July 1, 2018 and construction would begin in the summer of 2018.
Attachments: 1. Resolution
2. Proposed Layout
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE: June 12, 2017 RESOLUTION NO: 2017 -XX
MOTION BY: SECONDED BY:
APPROVE A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR A GRANT APPLICATION THROUGH
MnDOT'S METRO MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT PROGRAM FOR CRIMSON BAY
ROAD CONNECTION TO DOGWOOD ROAD AND TH 5 INTERSECTION
IMPROVEMENTS - PROJECT NO. 18-03
WHEREAS, a grant application is for construction of a road connection at Crimson Bay
Road to Dogwood Road and TH 5 intersection improvements; and
WHEREAS, funds are intended to pay for a portion of the construction costs of the project;
right of way, utility relocation and design costs are not eligible for funding; and
WHEREAS, the improvements are proposed to enhance operations and increase safety at
both the intersections of Crimson Bay Road and TH 5 and W. 78h Street and TH 41; and
WHEREAS, MnDOT's Metro Municipal Agreement program provides funding for
construction projects that are developed and administered by local agencies and provide benefit to
both the local community and trunk highway system; and
WHEREAS, if the grant application is successful, funds would be available July 1, 2018
and construction would begin in the summer of 2018.
NOW THERE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Chanhassen supports a grant
application for construction of a road connection at Crimson Bay Road to Dogwood Road and TH 5
intersection improvements.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 12th day of June, 2017.
ATTEST:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager Denny Laufenburger, Mayor
YES NO ABSENT