Community Meetings for Our Parks and a Southwest LRT Update

Community Meetings for our Parks

Lake Calhoun/Lake of the Isles Design Study

The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB) is taking a fresh look at the landscape between Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles.

Popular destinations in the area have led to steadily increasing congestion with accompanying safety concerns. This week, MPRB has been leading a preliminary park design study, organized as a multi-day community design event, or charrette, to engage the public in envisioning the future of the area.

The community will have the opportunity to review and comment on preliminary design options prepared by the design team at the:

Closing Session: Saturday, October 13
9:00 and 11:00 a.m.

MoZaic, 9th Floor

1350 Lagoon Ave. Map

CIDNA residents are invited and welcome to attend.

Park Siding Park - Playground Restoration

Please join the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board and the Metropolitan Council as they host a public meeting.

This is the first of up to three planning meetings to select new equipment for the Park Siding playground.

Metropolitan Council Environmental Services is replacing the sanitary sewer force main on W 28th St and will need to use the north end of Park Siding for construction and staging. The park's play equipment will be removed in this process, and Met Council will replace it as part of the post-sewer-construction restoration.

Tuesday, October 16

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Jones-Harrison Residence

3700 Cedar Lake Avenue Map

Meeting Highlights:

Presentation about the project
Activities to gather public comments and input

For more information, please contact Tim O'Donnell, Metropolitan Council Environmental Services: tim.odonnell@metc.state.mn.us or 651-602-1269.

Your input is needed!

Southwest Light Rail Transit Update

Southwest Light Rail Transit

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), which documents the potential impacts of the Southwest Transitway project, was released today.

Please visit www.southwesttransitway.org to access the report and for project updates.

There will be a 60 day period in which the public is invited to comment on the DEIS. Public comments will inform preliminary engineering on the project, which is scheduled to begin in early 2013.

The Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority has scheduled three public hearings to formally gather public comments on the DEIS. The public hearings will each be preceded by an open house, where people can learn more about the Southwest LRT project and the DEIS.

PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Tuesday, November 13
4:30 p.m. (4:00 p.m. Open House)
Hennepin County Government Center
300 S. Sixth St., Minneapolis Map

Wednesday, November 14
6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. Open House)
St. Louis Park City Hall
5005 Minnetonka Blvd, St. Louis Park Map

Thursday, November 29
6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. Open House)
Eden Prairie City Hall
8080 Mitchell Road, Eden Prairie Map

CIDNA's response
If you are interested in helping to draft CIDNA's response to the DEIS, please contact Monica Smith at info@cidna.org or 612-821-0131.

Quick Links...

www.cidna.org

www.southwesttransitway.org

Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association

info@cidna.org