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Municipal Consent Last Updated: December 8, 2014 <br />HPDP / Minnesota Department of Transportation <br />Roles and Procedures <br />Municipal consent should only be requested from a city if it is required. (See Threshold Criteria <br />above). <br />Sometimes a city may choose to waive municipal consent on a specific project. In that case the <br />city council must pass a resolution clearly identifying the project and waiving its right to <br />municipal consent for that project. However, the typical municipal consent process is as outlined <br />below. <br />Procedure (for obtaining municipal consent) <br />1. Mn/DOT (District) submits to the city the final layout with a letter requesting city <br />approval. The letter includes a good faith cost estimate of the city's share of the <br />project's cost and the following (either in the letter or in an attached report): <br />• project purpose <br />• route location <br />• short description of the proposed design of the highway <br />• any additional supporting data <br />2. City schedules and holds public hearing (within 60 days of submittal). <br />City must schedule within 15 days of receiving Mn/DOT's request for approval and <br />must give 30 days public notice. <br />3. City passes resolution approving / disapproving (within 90 days of public hearing). <br />After 90 from the date of the public hearing, if the city has not passed a resolution <br />disapproving the layout, the layout is deemed approved. <br />4. If city disapproves, Mn/DOT decides whether to: <br />a. Meet city's condition(s), assuming city approved with conditions: <br />Mn/DOT writes city a letter indicating this and attaches revised layout with <br />change(s). This ends the MC process. <br />b. Go to the appeal process. <br />c. Stop the project (do not build the project, or scale project down so that municipal <br />consent is no longer required). <br />Page 4 of 7 <br />