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SPEED LIMIT DETERMINATION The City of Lino Lakes will address speed limit related concerns based upon guidelines from Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) policies, Minnesota Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MnMUTCD), and engineering judgement. The basis for setting a speed limit follows the Minnesota State Statutes and the MnMUTCD. The following segments of information were taken from the Minnesota Statutes and MnMUTCD, those of which apply to the City of Lino Lakes. A exert from the FHWA discussing best practices is also included showing how engineering studies are used to set new speed limits or change existing ones. Minnesota Statues: 169.011 DEFINITIONS Subdivision 64. Residential Roadway A “residential roadway” is a city street or town road whose length is up to a half-mile. 169.14 SPEED LIMITS, ZONES; RADAR. Subdivision 1. Duty to drive with due care. No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions. Every driver is responsible for becoming and remaining aware of the actual and potential hazards then existing on the highway and must use due care in operating a vehicle. In every event speed shall be so restricted as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care. Subdivision 2. Speed limits. (a) Where no special hazard exists the following speeds shall be lawful, but any speeds in excess of such limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful; except that the speed limit within any municipality shall be a maximum limit and any speed in excess thereof shall be unlawful: (1) 30 miles per hour in an urban district; (Subdivisions 2.2-2.7 do not apply here, therefore were excluded) (8) 35 miles per hour in a rural residential district if adopted by the road authority having jurisdiction over the rural residential district. (c) A speed limit adopted under paragraph (a), clause (8), is not effective unless the road authority has erected signs designating the speed limit and indicating the beginning and end of the rural residential district for the roadway on which the speed limit applies.