2020-38CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE: June 8, 2020 RESOLUTION NO: 2020-38
MOTION BY: Campion SECONDED BY: McDonald
A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR CARVER COUNTY'S FEDERAL FUNDING
APPLICATION FOR HIGHWAY 5 ARBORETUM AREA MOBILITY AND ACCESS
IMPROVEMENT BETWEEN ROLLING ACRES ROAD (CSAH 13) AND MINNEWASHTA
PARKWAY
WHEREAS, every two years the Metropolitan Council solicits funding applications for the Regional
Solicitation to distribute federal transportation funds to locally initiated projects serving regional transportation
needs; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council estimates approximately $180 million in federal transportation
funding available for Fiscal Year 2024 and 2025; and
WHEREAS, eligible projects compete within three modal categories: Roadways Including Multimodal
Elements; Transit and Travel Demand Management; and Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities, and each modal
category includes multiple application categories for a total of eleven funding categories; and
WHEREAS, the Roadways Including Multimodal Elements modal category includes the Strategic
Capacity (Roadway Expansion) application category with a maximum federal transportation funding award of
$10 million; and
WHEREAS, Carver County partnered with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), the
City of Victoria, the City of Chanhassen, the City of Chaska, and the University of Minnesota's MN Landscape
Arboretum on the Arboretum Area Transportation Plan corridor study to identify coordinated roadway
improvements to address significant existing transportation mobility, safety, and access issues on the State Trunk
Highway (TH) 5 corridor; and
WHEREAS, the Arboretum Area Transportation Plan corridor study included a robust technical
analysis, concept development, concept evaluation, and a diversified and broad public engagement strategy to
identify and build consensus for short and long-term roadway concepts and recommendations; and
WHEREAS, Carver County, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Transportation
(MnDOT), the City of Victoria, the City of Chanhassen, and the University of Minnesota's MN Landscape
Arboretum, is seeking federal transportation funds to reconstruct and expand State Trunk Highway (TH) 5 from
a two-lane rural highway to a four -lane divided expressway between Rolling Acres Road (CSAH 13) and
Minnewashta Parkway including intersection safety and access improvements and bicycle and pedestrian
accommodations; and
WHEREAS, the proposed improvements will most significantly address safety and mobility issues
identified in MnDOT's Congestion Management Safety Plan at the TH 5/Rolling Acres Road (CSAH 13)
intersection, provide safe and reliable regional access to the MN Landscape Arboretum, and improve safety and
reliability for all corridor users; and
WHEREAS, Carver County will provide funding towards the local match and partner with MnDOT,
the City of Victoria, and the City of Chanhassen to contribute to the overall local match and project funding; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Chanhassen City Council supports and endorses
Carver County's submittal of the application titled Highway 5 Arboretum Area Mobility and Access
Improvement to the Metropolitan Council's Regional Solicitation to expand TH 5 from a two-lane undivided
highway to a four -lane divided expressway between Rolling Acres Road (CSAH 13) and Minnewashta Parkway;
and
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 8a' day of June, 2020.
ATTEST:
try/�
Todd Gerh dt, City Manager
YES NO
Ryan
Campion
Coleman
McDonald
Tjornhom
2
Elise Ryan, Mayor
ABSENT