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Page 1 of 2 AGENDA ITEM – 1B MEMORANDUM DATE: May 16, 2022 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Dave Perrault, City Administrator FROM: David Swearingen, P.E. Public Works Director / City Engineer SUBJECT: State Fair Parking Discussion Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source: $N/A $N/A N/A Council Should Consider Council should consider modifications to the 2022 State Fair Parking Restrictions Plan Background Around the City of Arden Hills there are multiple locations for park and rides to the State Fair. People utilize City streets to park their vehicles for the day which is acceptable in some locations but has posed an issue in others. To mitigate these issues Public Works staff has posted the state fair parking restrictions along routes shown in Attachment A. In preparation for the 2022 State Fair, a discussion is needed to decide if there are any changes needed to the current plan. In 2021, the park and ride at the Trinity Lutheran Church was not made available per decision by the State Fair. If that is still the case for 2022, staff would recommend that the no parking signs in the Hazelnut Neighborhood be removed from the plan. Here are a couple notes from previous years: • In 2019 the Sheriff reported approximately 50 citations on New Brighton Rd for State Fair parking. This road is already a no parking zone and shoulders are not wide enough but people have been parking into the boulevard. To mitigate this issue, no parking signs could be installed. This note can be disregarded if the Trinity Lutheran Church location is not made available in 202 • In 2019 there was a complaint of vehicles parked in the right-hand turn lane on Pine Tree Dr near the Wells Fargo building. Public Works staff addressed the issue by posting no parking signs which seemed to resolve it.