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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 24, 2002 Page 3 Ms. Vap indicated a ridership forecast was done assuming a 10-minute peak and 15-minute during the day with 13 stops along the corridor with the average stops 1.5 miles. 3 4 Ms. Vap indicated the route model used was from the Metropolitan Council and that would be 5 redone if this moves forward. 6 7 Ms. Vap indicated that the ridership forecast predicts that applying the moderate growth rate 8 increases ridership by 20%and the intensive smart growth would increase ridership by 32%. 9 10 Ms. Vap indicated the study supports the theory that growth positively increases transit ridership 11 and implementing moderate or intensive smart growth should be considered to have the most 12 positive impact. 13 14 Ms. Vap indicated that some of the positive impacts would be added tax base, employment, 15 retail, and population with more choices for housing and more connectivity throughout the 16 corridor. 17 18 Ms. Vap reviewed the specific community recommendations of the study and they are to 19 implement land use and transportation changes to the local comprehensive plan that supports the 20 corridor, related to smart growth scenario recommendations and transit-friendly mixed-use 21 development patterns. 22 Ms. Vap reviewed the county recommendations and they are to finalize the purchase of the partially abandoned railroad right-of-way in the Northeast Diagonal Corridor, to purchase future 25 abandoned railroad right-of-way in the Corridor, and continue to communicate with the railroad 26 on the activity of the railroad in this corridor as a freight use and potential for public ownership, 27 and to pursue discussions with railroad about joint use of railroad right-of way as future 28 transitway if the active freight railroad corridor does not come up for abandonment. 29 30 Ms. Vap reviewed the corridor recommendation and that is to build transit ridership in the 31 corridor using Highway 36 or a parallel route with high frequency service and speed before 32 transitway is implemented. 33 34 Ms. Vap reviewed the next steps for the committee and those are to complete community 35 presentations, work with Metropolitan Council to create sample transit oriented development 36 overlay district language, to monitor progress on opportunity sites development, and noted there 37 is a Policy Advisory Committee meeting on January 16, 2003. 38 39 Ms. Vap indicated part of the study focused on long range transit development will not happen 40 overnight but could be done incrementally. 41 42 Ms. Vap indicated that communities would need to think more like a corridor to be successful. 43 She then thanked Councilmember Faust for serving on the Committee and for the use of Council 44 Chambers. 0 Councilmember Thuesen asked where the funding comes from for the purchasing of right-of- 47 way.