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WHEREAS, Silver Lake Road is considered to be the main north-south arterial <br /> roadway bisecting the City of St. Anthony, connecting the shopping areas <br /> • of Silver Lake Village in the north and St. Anthony Village Shopping <br /> Center on the south, creating links to Central Park and the St. Anthony <br /> Community Center, and creating a pedestrian and bicycle link to St. <br /> Anthony Boulevard and the Northwest Diagonal Regional Trail; and <br /> WHEREAS, funding availability for the Silver Lake Road reconstruction is limited, and <br /> the financial viability of installing sidewalks is currently in question; and <br /> WHEREAS, the NTP grant program would provide the impetus as well as supplemental <br /> funds to allow for the constructing of the proposed sidewalk on both sides <br /> of Silver Lake Road as part of the proposed construction project. <br /> NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of St. <br /> Anthony supports and authorizes the application for funding under the NTP <br /> program,to help finance the sidewalk installation along the east and west <br /> boulevards of Silver Lake Road. The new sidewalk will improve safety <br /> conditions, and will provide a more effective non-motorized link between homes, <br /> local and regional recreational facilities, St. Anthony Middle School, St. Anthony <br /> High School, and the Silver Lake Village residential and retail development; and <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council for the City of St. Anthony <br /> authorizes City Staff to prepare and submit an application for the NTP program to <br /> • Transit for Livable Communities for funding consideration of the aforementioned <br /> sidewalk project. <br /> Adopted this 27th day of March, 2007. <br /> Mayor <br /> ATTEST: hali <br /> City Clerk <br /> Reviewed for administration: <br /> ity Manager <br /> • <br />