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Item No: 5 <br />Meeting Date: August 7, 2023 <br />MOLNDtSIEWType of Business WS <br />Admin Review <br />City of Mounds View Staff R <br />To: Honorable Mayor, and City Council <br />From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Speed/Traffic <br />Introduction: <br />Continuation of discussion from previous workshop (s) <br />NOTE — Memo carried over from July workshop — underlined text is new <br />Previous Discussion: <br />Included in the previous packet were all the items council received for their January 2022 workshop <br />which resulted in the "experiment" to install two addition signs on Groveland which was completed <br />later that year; one at Groveland Circle, and one at Sherwood. There is an existing sign at Ardan. <br />Staff (PD) collected a limited amount of data on Groveland, Spring Lake Road, Long Lake Road, and Red <br />Oak prior to the installations. <br />Staff (PD) has been collecting data for same the past two months along with data from H2 as we receive <br />complaints from residents along that corridor. NOTE - This is not engineering quality level data, that <br />would entail spending thousands of dollars to obtain. However, since it is the same equipment, an <br />argument can be made that it is comparable data. Since the July workshop we have collected additional <br />data on SLP Road and H2. <br />Significant variables exist including construction of SLP road. Less significant is Groveland Village as no <br />data is available on occupancy of units and thus the potential volume impact. <br />Since the installation, staff has received requests from residents to remove the stop signs, they are <br />annoyed and do not feel they work. Staff has also received three requests for additional signs, <br />Groveland south of MV Boulevard, Spring Lake Road north of the Boulevard, and one on H2. Council <br />received a request for similar signs on County I and SLP Road, which were installed. <br />Since the experiment began, the Legislature has passed language that was signed into law allowing <br />every city/political subdivision to establish their own limits. Minneapolis and all adjacent communities <br />to the north (staff did not survey in other directions) have lowered their limits to 25 MPH. <br />Ramsey County has notified staff they will be lowering the limit on all their roads that have a marked <br />bicycle trail. Thus, portions of Long Lake Road will go to 25. <br />Staff has also advised and will update council that the City has not experienced a serious injury or <br />fatality on any city streets. Those have been confined to County and State Roads. <br />Included in the packet is a spreadsheet detailing 6 full years and current year to date data, of all calls for <br />service, DWI arrests, and traffic citations. <br />I fie IVIOUF]Ub view V 151url <br />A Thriving Desirable Community <br />