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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 10, 2023 Page 4 Mayor Roe explained he was probably the most pro-changing of the speed limits but only for the residential streets in the City. He was not looking to do speed changes on collector streets. He thought right now the City does not do a lot to enforce speeds on the lowest level residential streets anyway and he was not suggesting the City change that from an enforcement point of view. He thought a huge part of this is the education aspect, the notion of how much safer it is for an individual to be a pedestrian or biker on a street and sharing the street with vehicles when speeds are just generally lower. He was not sure the City could only educate and not change the speed limit. He was not sure if the City could just change the speed limit and not do any education,but there may be a way to do it hand in hand. Councilmember Schroeder agreed with Councilmember Etten that she would not go to the public on this at this point. There are too many unanswered questions that would be confusing for people. She also thought there were other great things the Commission needs to work on, are working on, and there are only so many resources. She thought there were some other things that the City could get more bang for the buck for the Commission to spend its time on. Chair Ficek explained also on the list was looking into the ideal street design that the Commission could talk about and would be related to speeds. He wondered if the Commission should be looking at that and as roads and streets come up for reconstruction or maintenance, should they be looking at what is the ideal and can they move towards that. Councilmember Etten thought it tied into another item on the list which is public safety related to transportation and infrastructure and he would be open to that. He wondered, since the City is using Municipal State Aid (MSA) dollars on roads, if the City is stuck with a certain street width or is that something that can be played with. He thought a lot of the roads in the City use MSA dollars for rebuilding and that reduces speed limits without other mitigating things. Councilmember Groff indicated he was open to having some research done on it and would be very careful about changing street width due to snow plowing but it is something he would be interested in seeing the details on. Mayor Roe noted there may have to be different standards for different purposed streets. He thought this got into thinking about different things that could be changed on the streets, such as parking. He stated it came down to how to apply the Complete Streets Standards to the roads in Roseville. Councilmember Schroeder thought this fit into a number of pieces such as what the City is required to do,noting that what is fashionable today may not be fashionable in the future.