2017.08.15 EDA Work Session PacketAGENDA
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF CRYSTAL
•• •• WORK SESSION •• ••
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2017
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CRYSTAL CITY HALL
CONFERENCE ROOM A
1. Call to order *
2. Review updated concept plan and discuss design details for Bass Lake Road
streetscape project
3. Home improvement program update *
4. 5900 56 th Ave N update *
5. Other business *
6. Adjournment *
*Items for which no materials are included in the packet
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FROM: John Sutter, Community Development Director
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DATE: August 10, 2017
TO: Anne Norris, City Manager (for August 15 EDA work session )
SUBJECT: Review updated concept plan and discuss design details for Bass Lake
Road streetscape project
On June 22, staff and design consultant SEH held a design workshop at the Becker Park
building to gather input on the first draft of the Bass Lake Road streetscape concept. At the
July 18 work session the City Council reviewed and discussed a second draft of concept.
The attached updated concept is intended to be the final concept presented for Council/EDA
review before the consultant moves into detailed design. At this time staff and the consultant
are proceeding under the following assumptions:
• Textured concrete will be the favored approach for making the hardscape attractive while
minimizing long-term maintenance costs. This means colored concrete and paver bricks
will not be part of the design, or at most will be used sparingly.
• If the existing street lights can be retrofitted with LEDs to provide better pedestrian lighting,
and if that would be a lower cost alternative to replacement with new pedestrian-scale
lighting fixtures, then we will use that approach.
• If the existing street light poles will remain, then we intend to use the existing banner arms
for placement of a semi-permanent banner based on the city flag design instead of the
seasonal banners in use today and common in many cities. If the existing street light poles
will be removed, then some sort of fixture for vertically mounting the full-size city flag will be
installed in the mini-plaza at the northwest corner of the Elmhurst intersection and also at
the southeast corner of the Sherburne intersection.
• We will attempt to preserve the existing Honeylocust shade trees to the extent possible
along the south side of the two city-owned parking lots.
• The planter boxes must be small enough to be moved with a forklift and truck to off-site
seasonal storage.
Karl Weissenborn from SEH will be present to answer questions on the final concept and seek
EDA input on design elements, materials and features.
Detailed design will be completed in fall 2017 for winter bidding and spring 2018 construction.
EDA STAFF REPORT
Bass Lake Road Streetscape
Finalize Concept Design
CRYSTAL: BASS LAKE ROAD STREETSCAPE preliminary 08/15/17
BASS LAKE RD
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25’ 100’ 200’
a new bass lake road
STREETSCAPE CONCEPT REDESIGN
22 SPACES
future LRT
station
add 14 on-street
parking spaces
enhanced sidewalk tree buffer from
parking lot
minor gateway
plaza
add 14
on-street
parking spaces
promenade
planter boxes planting bed ADA compatible
truncated dome
add 6 on-street
parking spaces
pedestrian crosswalk
planted median
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street trees
• pedestrian safety measure
• noise, pollution and vision
buffer • welcome element, visual cues
• paving patterning
• bench seating
• wayfinding / signage
• receptacles
• easy to maintain and
store
• buffer to traffic lane
• at end of parking bays • roadway lighting at east
end
• clumping, salt tolerant
perennial and shrub
plantings
• small ornamental trees
• mass planting bed <4’
height
• 4’ wide concrete buffer • wide and clear connection
to LRT station
• open and safe - “eyes-on”
• pedestrian lighting
• noise, pollution and vision
buffer
• planting beds
• variety / small ornamental
trees
• save existing canopy trees
when possible
• convenient front door
access
• traffic calming for bass
lake road
• pedestrian lighting
• colored and patterned concrete
• seating
• outlets high on poles for
decorative lighting
• speakers on poles for music
• proposed in conjunction with
the LRT Station plan
60 PARKING SPACES
BECKER PARK
MASTER REDESIGN
car door zone
metro transit
bus shelter