County Commissioners Office

Last Sunday I (Will Peterson) met with Katie Hatt from Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin's office. I am pleased to report that it went very well and we can expect county representation at some of the upcoming meetings. We discussed a number of things from the Complete Street program to short term traffic enforcement. From pedestrian activated crosswalks to protected parking. Ms. Hatt is very familiar with many aspects of traffic taming and is interested in New urbanism. The outlook is seems positive!

We're still trying to get to the bottom of EPA sound regulations and who is in charge of monitoring them. (MN state statute 116.07) I should say that we don't know if Cedar is in violation of MN EPA, but it would be good to check. We also discussed all the issues identified by Access Minneapolis, the city 10 year transportation plan, including severely over capacity traffic and high speeds and high accident intersections.

Ms. Hatt was going to try to put us in contact with some of the planners and engineers for the county, since Cedar is a county road, they would ultimatly be in charge of a redesign.

I'm very happy to have made contact, and thank Ryan Richardson for his help in setting up the meeting, And again, to Ms. Hatt for meeting on a weekend before a holiday!

Thank you! More to come...