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Ordinance 918 Discussion June 13, 2016 Page 2 In 2014, Mayor Flaherty reached out to both the Spring Lake Park and Blaine Mayors to ascertain whether their cities were still on board with the renaming project for County Road 10. Both cities expressed reluctance to participate given the high costs, with Spring Lake Park responding in writing that they did not oppose the Northtown Boulevard name so long as there was no implementation costs to their city. Mounds View was on its own to fund the name change. Discussion: With the impending work to be done surrounding County Road H and 35W in addition to the 35W Managed Lane Project, staff and the Council had revisited the signage and name issue. If new signs need to be installed regardless due to construction, The City wondered whether a new name could be incorporated at no additional expense to the City. MnDOT was asked for lettering parameters, such as how many characters could be utilized on the existing signs, without necessitating a wholesale sign and sign structure replacement. Council member Meehlhause put together some information based on existing signage to get a better understanding of how long a name could be. On Monday, February 22, 2016, Mayor Flaherty, Council member Meehlhause and I met with Ramsey County Commissioner Blake Huffman and County Engineer Jim Tolaas to discuss County Road 10 and the role the County can play to help address signage issues both on the corridor as well as on 35W. While some progress was made at the meeting, it would take a second meeting on April 1, 2016, which included MnDOT staff, to receive some positive news. With the proposed improvements to 35W close to being approved and funded, MnDOT indicated that the City could likely count on new signs being erected to include the new chosen name at no cost to the City. Other signage would be replaced with the County Road H interchange reconstruction which is starting this June. At the April 4, 2016 Work Session, the Council was updated as to the status of the name change project and that a survey had been sent to all businesses on County Road 10. (Survey responses were requested back to the City by April 15.) The responses were reviewed with the City Council on April 25, 2016, and with just one exception, the responses were unanimous in support of a change. Staff had also confirmed with the US Post Office that if the name was changed to Mounds View Boulevard, mail would continue to be delivered to the property regardless of whether the envelope indicated County 10, Highway 10, County Highway 10 or Mounds View Boulevard. The direction from the Council at that point was to move forward with the name change. Previous Council Action: The City Council considered the first reading and introduction of the ordinance at their meeting on May 23, 2016, and set the public hearing for June 13, 2016.