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STAFF REPORT <br />DATE:November 18, 2025 <br />REGULAR <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Nate Stanley, City Engineer <br />AGENDA ITEM: Authorize Engineering services for 2026 Crosswalk Layouts <br />REVIEWED BY: Nicole Miller, City Administrator <br />Clarissa Hadler, Finance Director <br />Marty Powers, Public Works Director <br />Chad Isakson, Assistant City Engineer <br />Jack Griffin, Municipal Sr. Project Manager. <br />CORE STRATEGIES: <br />☐ Vibrant, inclusive, connected community ☐ Efficient, reliable, innovative services <br />☐ Responsive, transparent, adaptive governance ☐ Balanced Finances now and future <br />☒ Managed Growth ☒ Resilient Infrastructure <br />BACKGROUND: On December 3, 2024, the City Council adopted a Pedestrian Crosswalk Policy to guide <br />the City in determining when to mark a crosswalk and when to leave a crosswalk unmarked. <br />ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL: Should the City Council authorize engineering services for the preparation <br />of conceptual layouts and planning-level cost estimates for 3 new proposed crosswalks to be installed in <br />2026, at the intersection of 5th Street and Ivwood Circle, 5th Street and Julia Avenue, and Village Parkway <br />and Lower 31st Street? <br />PROPOSAL DETAILS/ANALYSIS: Staff received a request from a property owner to install crosswalks <br />along 5th Street North, between Inwood Avenue (CSAH 13) and Keats Avenue (CSAH 19). These <br />intersections were reviewed by City staff to determine where crosswalks should be marked along this <br />corridor. From this review, two intersections were identified that met the policy for crosswalk markings. <br />The intersection of 5th Street and Ivwood Circle meets the policy recommendations for a marked crosswalk <br />since the intersection is immediately adjacent to Ivywood Park, and the intersection of 5th Street and Julia <br />Avenue meets the policy recommendations for a marked crosswalk since the intersection is immediately <br />adjacent to Savona Park. As part of this review process, staff identified an additional intersection at Village <br />Parkway and Lower 31st Street that is also immediately adjacent to a park (Northport HOA Park). <br />All of the intersections evaluated fall under the category of side-street stop control. As such the policy reads <br />as follows: “At locations across a stop-controlled leg of a side street stop-controlled intersection, it is the <br />City Policy that crosswalks will remain unmarked, unless the crossing directly serves a key destination as <br />defined in the “Criteria Definitions” section. A key destination is defined in the policy as follows: “For <br />this Policy a key destination includes a school or public park immediately adjacent to the crossing location,