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If yes, please briefly describe these activities or policies: Have safety risks or hazards been identified that prevent students from walking or biking to school? The District provides regular weekly and monthly publications that provide a variety of information to students. Healthy activities, including encouraging walking and biking are routinely highlighted in these publications. In addition, activities such as walking and biking are highlighted in the City of Arden Hills Comprehensive plan, in the parks and recreation, Transportation and Sustainability sections Yes Do students still walk or bike to school No even though safety risks or hazards have been identified near the school(s) or on routes students take to school? Percentage of students who walk or 2% per hexagon srts equity scores - confirming with District bike to school Percentage of students who take the AWAITING DISTRICT INFORMATION bus to school List and describe the safety risks or The Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan has identifies city wide trails, hazards that have been identified, including this trail project, as essential to increase safe pedestrian, walking including the locations of these risks. and hiking activities. Currently, a trail gap exists along Lake Valentine Road Applicants may reference any student and Snelling Avenue, where walking and biking students use narrow or parent survey data, crash data, SRTS shoulders to walk or bike to school and parks, and access existing, trails. plan, or other relevant sources. Upload The District convened a task force to make recommendations for the any referenced sources when improvements for the recent District bonding bill process. With public submitting this application. involvement and the task force review process, priorities included room for growth, flexibility, and safety. Student safety while walking was among the top priorities. At the beginning of the trail project process, the District developed a questionnaire. Surveys were sent out and a significant majority of responses were very excited to see the trail become a reality. Several additional questions and some concerns were also raised, but the trail is well supported. Safety risks or hazards that exist along the trail include: walking or biking along a narrow shoulder; students walking along a minor arterial with high traffic volumes, very heavily concentrated around school start and stop times (the exact times students are walking and biking); students being "mixed" and in close proximity to vehicles; vehicle speeding along Lake valentine Road and Old Snelling Avenue. Constructing a trail to increase student safety, increase connectivity, and associated roadway improvements were common positive responses in favor of the trail. to survey provided a survey.