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<br />1 <br />i <br />MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING <br />FALCON HEIGHT S, MINNESOTA <br />OCTOBER 10, 1971 <br />A regular meeting of the Falcon Heights City Council was called to order by <br />Mayor Warkentien at 8:00 P.M. <br />Mayor Warkentien, Councilmen Black, Ecklund, Steele, and PRESENT <br />Labalestra. Also present were Clerk-Administrator Barnes, <br />Engineer Lemberg and Attorney Kenefick. <br />None. ABSENT <br />Councilman Black moved, seconded by Councilman Ecklund, MINUTES <br />to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of <br />Seotember 26, 197l~, as corrected. Motion carried. <br />Councilman Steele moved, seconded by Councilman Labalestra, MEETING TIME CHANGE <br />that the meeting time be moved back to 7:30 P.M. for <br />the period of November 1, through April, 1975. Motion <br />carried. <br />Deane Anklan, Ramsey County Engineer, was present by <br />request of the Council, for discussion of the parking <br />situation on the south side of Larpenteur Avenue, <br />between Hamline and Albert Avenues. Also present for <br />discussion were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Olson, 1386 W. <br />Larpenteur; Mr. and Mrs. William LaBarre, 1382 W. <br />Larpenteur; Louis Rosner, 1352 W. Larpenteur; Millard <br />Rustad, 1372 W. Larpenteur; Earl Clemment; 13,5l; W. <br />Larpenteur; residents of the above described area. <br />Mr. Anklan explained to the residents that Larpenteur <br />Avenue has been designated as a minor arterial roadway, <br />designed for the movement of through traffic of <br />approximately five to six hundred vehicles per lane <br />per hour, and was not intended to be utilized as a <br />parking lot. County roads have the distinction of <br />being well maintained and therefore many comtmunities <br />were established and many residential homes built <br />adjacent to them. He stated that in essence, the <br />citizens living in the described area were provided <br />with free parking for a good number of years. They <br />were not assessed for street or certain other <br />improvements as is now the practice in many communities <br />and in other areas of the City of Falcon Heights, where <br />the people must "buy" the street immediately adjacent <br />to their homes. <br />Mr. Anklan explained that the Larpenteur Avenue Improvement <br />or TOPICS Program could have been delayed for two to <br />three years, but within five years some type of <br />improvement would have become inevitable, and at the <br />time of the project, federal funding was available <br />where it might not have been at a later date. When <br />funds are allocated by the federal government, <br />specifications are made as to how these funds can be <br />utilized. During construction, time expired and <br />funding was reallocated, so the project was not completed <br />as originally planned. <br />g5 ~' <br />LARPENTEUR AVENUE PARKING <br />