Southwest LRT open houses are planned this month for both the freight rail issue and station locations. Please attend to share your comments and learn more.

 

Please join us for the next meeting of the
CIDNA Board.        

      

Wednesday, June 12
6:00 p.m.
Jones-Harrison Residence
3700 Cedar Lake Avenue  Map
 
 Click here to download a pdf of the complete agenda.

Two public open houses will be held on engineering concepts for resolving the location of freight rail in the design of Southwest LRT.

Thursday, June 13
8:00-9:30 a.m.
and
4:30-7:00 p.m.
Commons Cafeteria at
Benilde-St. Margaret's School
2501 Highway 100 South
St. Louis Park  Map

Project engineers will present details of their concepts and seek public feedback. The concepts explore various possibilities for co-locating freight and LRT tracks in Minneapolis, as well as options to reroute freight rail traffic in St. Louis Park to make way for LRT tracks.

The co-location option involves building LRT tracks next to freight rail tracks where TC&W currently operates trains through the Kenilworth area in Minneapolis.

The relocation option involves relocating TC&W's trains to CP's Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern (MN&S) track in St. Louis Park and BNSF's Wayzata line in St. Louis Park and Minneapolis. This freight reroute would make room for the addition of Southwest LRT tracks through the Kenilworth area.

Six co-location concepts being presented involve the following in the Kenilworth Corridor in Minneapolis:

• Building LRT tracks along the freight tracks and trail, with all modes at ground level.
• Relocating the trail out of the corridor between the Midtown Greenway and Cedar Lake Parkway.
• Elevating the trail.
• Building a shallow tunnel for LRT tracks.
• Building deep twin tunnels, with one tunnel for each
  LRT track.
• Elevating LRT tracks.

Project website: www.swlrt.org
Questions? Contact Sophia Ginis, Southwest LRT community outreach coordinator, Sophia.ginis@metrotransit.org or 612-373-3895.




Open houses will be held for the proposed locations for all 17 Southwest LRT stations.

All Minneapolis Stations:
Monday, June 17
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Metro Transit's Fred T. Heywood Office Building
560 Sixth Ave N  Map

Monday, June 17
4:30-7:00 p.m.
Harrison Recreation Center
503 Irving Ave N  Map

Monday, June 24
4:30-7:00 p.m.
Kenwood Community Center
2101 Franklin Ave W  Map

Project designers and engineers need to fix the locations of where station platforms will be built, the roadway, pedestrian, bike and bus connections to the stations and the locations of park-and-rides and kiss-and-rides in relation to the stations.

Project website: www.swlrt.org
Questions? Contact Sophia Ginis, Southwest LRT community outreach coordinator, Sophia.ginis@metrotransit.org or 612-373-3895.

 
Monday, June 10
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
5th Precinct, Community Room
3101 Nicollet Avenue S   Map
 
Bring your own lunch. Cookies and lemonade are provided.
Meet with Meg is held the second Monday of every month.

Saturday, June 22

The Greenway Glow is two events in one: a free community art festival and a night bike ride to raise funds for the Midtown Greenway. All money raised will be used to protect and enhance the Midtown Greenway.
 
For all the details and to register, go to www.midtowngreenway.org.

Sunday, June 23
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Lyndale Avenue South from 22nd St W to 42nd St W

For more information: www.openstreetsmpls.com.

 

 

Board Treasurer Ed Bell (left) presented David with several gifts on behalf of appreciative residents: a bottle of sparkling apple cider in recognition of his leadership on the joint neighborhood Wine Tasting Fundraiser; a compostable garbage bag in recognition of his many years of hard work, along with his wife Pat, at beautifying Park Siding Park and on Earth Day projects; keys to an imaginary Ducati motorcycle to wish him well on his travels; and an engraved lucite table clock saying "Special thanks - David Shirley - 26 years - CIDNA."  

 

(Photo by Roseanne Halloran, CIDNA Board)

 

Between April 2nd and May 11th, 17 occupied residential and apartment burglaries occurred in the Fifth Precinct.

An occupied burglary is when the suspect enters the home and
a resident is present. Note that this is different than home invasions, which are when a suspect enters the home with the intention of robbing or harming the person inside. In these occupied burglaries, the majority of the residents were asleep and the suspects often did not go anywhere near them. In instances where the resident and suspect saw each other, the suspect fled.

70% contained no force, utilizing unlocked doors and windows and removing screens. Other cases included entrance via breaking a window and via forcing open a door. In some of the cases, the suspect did not enter the home, but stole items by cutting or removing the window screen and reaching through an open or unlocked window.

These incidents occurred in apartments as well as residential homes. Due to the time of these cases, suspect descriptions are minimal. No one was harmed in any of these incidents.  

What you can do:  

• Call 911 on suspicious activity  
• Get to know your neighbors  
• Form a block club if one does not exist  
• Lock your doors and windows, even if you're home or in
  the yard  
• Pin your windows so you can stop them at 6" or less
• Record the make/model/serial number on valuables so it
  can increase the chances of recovery and locating a suspect. It's especially important on bicycles!  
• Watch an interview of a chronic burglar to see what he
  looks for in a location. 

For more crime prevention information, visit the City's Crime Prevention webpage or contact Crime Prevention Specialist Chelsea Adams, 612-673-2819 or chelsea.adams@minneapolismn.gov.


An alert was sent regarding several luring incidents which have occurred in the Fifth Precinct in recent weeks.

The Minneapolis Police Department is taking each and every one of these reports seriously and has assigned a dedicated investigator to look into the incidents.

Valuable information has been obtained from the community and witnesses. The Fifth Precinct patrol officers have stopped and identified occupants of several vehicles matching the description of vehicles described in the calls. The information has been shared with several surrounding communities and departments in case they have experienced similar incidents or have any further information.

Please continue to call 911 on suspicious activity including suspicious vehicles and persons.

For more information on how to keep your children safe:
Child and Teen Safety Tips.pdf

Thank you for reading this newsletter. If you are interested in volunteering in the neighborhood, please let me know how you would like to help.