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City Council Work Session Meeting Monday, March 19, 2018 Page 14 Councilmember McGehee continued that on page 36, she liked chapter 4.2, thought it was important, and she would like more emphasis on how all the road- ways tie into land-use planning. It is languishing in its current spot in the docu- ment, and it is an important paragraph. It is part of what she calls the horizontal design that needs to happen in the community. Also, she has previously talked to Mr. Culver about railroads and freight. There is a railroad map on page 45, and the City has sidestepped quiet crossing issues, and that should be brought forward. There has been complaint about it before and Shoreview did a lot to make quiet crossings, but Roseville did not. Mayor Roe recalled there is some reference to that issue in this section; there is a reference at the end of the section on page 44 regarding strategies. Mr. Culver added that he had suggested adding to the goals and policies an addi- tional policy on geometrically upgrading the crossings as they are redone, to pre- pare them for quiet zone classification in the future. An example of that is the County Road C2 rail crossing that is being redone this year. Public Works can add medians as a part of that work that would be required for quiet zones and is easy to add in, and staff can work with the railroad to upgrade the signals and arms at a later time to make it a quiet zone. The Council concurred. Mayor Roe suggested including on pages 43-44 something about the noise , and perhaps partnering with adjacent cities when appropriate when trains are passing through multiple jurisdictions. Councilmember McGehee commented on the strategies and suggested going to more of a bulleted format to improve readability. Additionally, the crash data is interesting, and staff has indicated it may be slightly skewed, since some of the roads do not have as much traffic. That is something to look at going forward, where the City does have intersections that are excessively prone to accidents. She pointed out the map on page 73, and it is far removed from the explanation on it. Mayor Roe noted that the map does talk about vehicle accidents per million uses of the intersection, so it does relate it to busy intersections or not. Mr. Culver noted the one that jumps out is Roselawn between Snelling and Ham- line. There is nothing to indicate it should be a high crash rate there, except for its proximity to Snelling and perhaps some crashes that are getting categorized onto Roselawn. Staff will review whether it should be included.