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AGENDA ITEM - 1B <br /> <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />DATE: June 30, 2014 <br /> <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Patrick Klaers, City Administrator <br /> <br />FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director <br /> <br />SUBJECT: 35W Bridges Aesthetic Treatment <br /> <br /> <br />Several weeks ago the Council agreed to participate in a study with New Brighton and Ramsey <br />County to look at bridge aesthetics for the four bridges planned to be replaced along the 35W <br />corridor in the next two years. Those bridges are Highway 96 and County Road F (Lake <br />Valentine Road) in 2015 and County Road E-2 and County Road H in 2016. Kimley-Horn and <br />Associates was hired by New Brighton to undertake the study. <br /> <br />Over the past several weeks two meetings have been held with the consultant team and MnDOT. <br />The focus of the co <br />into account the current bridges along the corridor at CR 10, would have design elements that tie <br />to both New Brighton and Arden Hills, would be relatively easy to maintain over the life of the <br />bridge, and would minimize or eliminate any local funding above the MnDOT contribution to <br />aesthetics treatments. MnDOT policy caps funding for aesthetic treatments at seven percent of <br />the bridge structure cost not to exceed $300,000. MnDOT also has a standard pallet of colors <br />that they will maintain and any choices outside that standard pallet they pass the maintenance <br />responsibility to the local agencies. <br /> <br />Attached is a brief report summarizing the design process with the recommended bridge <br />aesthetic treatments. Kimley- <br />process and recommendations. <br /> <br />11 <br />Page of <br /> <br />