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Item No: 08E Meeting Date: March 28, 2022 MOUNDS VIEW Type of Business: Council Business City Administrator Review: City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Jon Sevald, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9572, Amending the Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 7 (Transportation) Introduction: Staff is requesting a Text Amendment to the 2040 Comprehensive Plan to include reference to the Ramsey County Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan. Discussion: During the City Council's October 25, 2021 meeting, Ramsey County Staff provided a presentation about the county's Active Living Communities. It was noted that Mounds View is one of three cities' whose Comprehensive Plan does not reference the county's Pedestrian & Bicycle Plan, nor the Connected Ramsey Communities Network. Ramsey County Pedestrian & Bicycle Plan (2015) The Plan establishes a Vision and Goals to improve access to pedestrian facilities. These culminated from several outreach efforts and surveys, concluding that residents walk and bike for recreation and as a mode of transportation. Residents want more separation from traffic, safe connections between sidewalks and trails, year -around maintenance, and meaningful engagement. The Connected Ramsey Communities Network (2015) This network is a map of various routes that connect from city to city, and county to county. The concepts within both plans are included in the city's Comprehensive Plan, although the Plan does not reference them directly. The City facilitated committees in the 1990's and 2000's, culminating in a sidewalk and trail plan to be implemented as part of the City's street reconstruction program. Each street project is designed based on this past work, and generally includes a sidewalk or striped road shoulder within '/4 mile of every home, and on school routes. The County's plan identifies2 pedestrian stress in areas including the three manufactured home communities (private streets), neighborhoods with concentrated apartments such as Scotland Green (private streets), Woodlawn Terrace, Silver Lake Woods (originally private streets), the Medtronic campus, County Road H (east of Mounds View Boulevard), and portions of Mounds View Boulevard without trails (planned for 2022/2023). The county's plan is helpful in identifying gaps within the system, as well as actual walking and bicycle use as reported by smart devices. This reporting revealed the popularity of trails through the Medtronic Campus, and the woodchip trail through Greenfield Park. The county's plan is about 200 pages, and can be viewed on the county's website (Transportation & Multi - Modal Transit Initiatives). Attached, are selected maps. All that said, the proposed text amendment is intended to draw attention to the county's plan, but does not result in any changes to the City's pedestrian and bicycle plans. The proposed Gem Lake and North Oaks are the other two cities. 2 Ramsey County Pedestrian & Bicycle Plan, maps 2B-1 thru 2B-8