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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 22, 2024 Page 3 a. Consider a Request to Perform an Abatement for Unresolved Violations of City Code at 3119 Mildred Drive This item was removed from the agenda. b. MnDOT Update on the Hwy 36 Transportation Study Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer Jennifer Lowry briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated April 22, 2024. Mr. David Elvin, Transportation planner with MnDOT, gave a presentation on the second phase of the Hwy 36 Transportation Study. Councilmember Strahan referenced page 31 of the presentation that states, "local business comments, RAHS comments, MnDOT maintenance comments", those were not included, and she did not know if Mr. Elvin has those comments or if that is a part of the matrix of all comments. She wondered if Mr. Elvin could speak to what the comments were from the high school or how that would impact things. Mr.Elvin indicated these are not included in written form but he did want to address them. He noted the Council asked when he was before the Council last time if he could go out and talk to these groups and there was good conversations with them and some were somewhat candid. He reviewed the comments from the groups MnDOT talked to. Councilmember Strahan knew the traffic study was conducted in 2022 but she has noticed, especially Tuesday through Thursday of late, the traffic has increased. Mondays and Fridays tend to be lighter with hybrid schedules continuing but the amount of people who are back into an office per location seemed to have increased greatly. She thought that Commerce St. underneath Snelling is a great idea and it was noted there was a bike lane on that, but she wanted to make sure that if they consider a bike lane, that it extends all the way from Hamline to Fairview. She noted that neither side of that has complete sidewalks so in front of the apartment buildings from Snelling to Fairview, there is no bike lane or pathway and not even parking along the side. She loved the idea and another piece would be a bike trail too, at least on the Target side. She noted there is sidewalk in there, if these could connect so it got to that intersection of County B and Snelling. She also wanted to know how all of these things work together with issues they have been addressing with County Road B and Snelling intersection. Mr. Elvin explained Snelling and County B is a County project. Ms. Lowry stated it is a study funded by the County primarily led by the City. She reviewed the project and study information with the Council.