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City Council Workshop
November 18,2019
The City Council of the City of Hastings, Minnesota met in a workshop on Monday,November 18,
2019 at 5:30pm in the Volunteer Room at the Hastings City Hall, 101 East 4th Street, Hastings, Minnesota
to discuss transportation issues and transportation and transit planning topics with Dakota County
Transportation Department.
Members Present: Mayor Fasbender, Councilmembers Balsanek,Braucks, Lund, and Vaughan
Councilmember Folch arrived at 5:46pm, and Councilmember Leifeld arrived at
6pm
City Staff Present: City Administrator Dan Wietecha
Public Works Director Nick Egger
City Engineer Ryan Stempski
Dakota County Commissioner Mike Slavik
Representatives Transportation Director&County Engineer Mark Krebsbach
Senior Transportation Planner Scott Peters
Mayor Fasbender called the workshop to order at 5:35pm.
The meeting agenda focused on four primary topics.
• County Road 42 Speed Issue
Discussion on concern over speeding and safety for pedestrian through the corridor.
Perception is a high level of violations are occurring. Discussion of soliciting for a
speed study and potential for unintended consequences. Drastic physical
modification of the roadway would be necessary to induce lower speeds, and would
have substantial City cost share per Dakota County cost sharing policies. Support
for staff to work with County staff to develop a scope of work to perform study of
possible low-cost options to improve pedestrian crossing experience and safety.
Staff will work on this and report back at a later date once scope materializes and
estimate of study costs are known. City would have cost-share responsibility in
study and the two parties would enter a joint powers agreement to conduct study
work.
• Conceptual Scope of County Road 46/47 Corridor Study
This work is in the 2020 County Capital Improvements Plan, and work is intended
to begin in first or second quarter of 2020. Study will examine most promising
enhancements and improvements for speeds, safety, access, pedestrian
connectivity, and consideration for economic redevelopment nearest to Highway
61. Study area will be from Highway 61 to western City limits. Joint powers
agreement will need to be developed and executed between City and County. City
cost share is 25% of the study costs, with upper limit expected to be $75,000.
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• Transit& Transit Planning
Director Krebsbach discussed acknowledged that the results of the recently
completed Eastern Transit Study were disappointing for Hastings, and indicated
that the County was finding similar results of studies for other parts of the County.
Krebsbach and Commissioner Slavik pointed to the surprising results coming out of
the pilot study for student transportation to DCTC, in that it has not shown the
promise of ridership that was originally expected. The landscape of transit options
has changed substantially in the last 10 years. It is believed the key contributing
factors to this have been telecommuting, lower fuel prices, and the evolution of
ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, all of which have added to the
challenge of forecasting transit demand and planning publicly-offered services.
Krebsbach indicated that the County's transit modeling will have to make a shift to
account for these developments in the industry. The County will take very careful
consideration of this in its upcoming 2040 Transportation Planning updates.
• County Transportation Plan & Updates
Krebsbach provided a handout to meeting attendees and walked through the six
primary goals of the 2040 Plan, which are Resources, Transit& Transportation
Modes, Preservation, Management, Replacement, and Improvement& Expansion.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion to adjourn adopted unanimously by Co cil a :55pm.
Mary F sbender, Mayor u le F en, City Clerk