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2025.07.15 Work Session Packet 4141 Douglas Drive North • Crystal, Minnesota 55422-1696 Tel: (763) 531-1000 • Fax: (763) 531-1188 • www.crystalmn.gov Posted: July 11, 2025 City Council Work Session Agenda Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. Council Chambers/Conference Room A/Zoom Pursuant to due call and notice given in the manner prescribed by Section 3.01 of the City Charter, the work session of the Crystal City Council was held on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at _____ p.m. electronically via Zoom and in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 4141 Douglas Drive, Crystal, Minnesota. If the agenda items are not completed in time for the regular City Council meeting at 7:00 p.m., the meeting will be continued and resumed immediately following the regular meeting or, if there is one, the EDA meeting. I. Attendance Council members Staff ____ Budziszewski ____ Kamish ____ Bell ____ Therres ____ Cummings ____ Deshler ____ Therres ____ Kunde ____ Kiser ____ Eidbo ____ Tierney ____ Serres ____ Onesirosan ____ Hubbard ____ Sutter ____ Larson ____ Struve ____ Underthun ____ Elholm II. Agenda The purpose of the work session is to discuss the following agenda items: 1. Blue Line extension 60% plans and Environmental Impact Statement update. 2. (8:00 p.m.) Closed session to discuss labor negotiations. 3. Council liaison reports.* 4. Constituent issues* 5. City manager monthly check-in.* 6. New business. * 7. Announcements. * III. Adjournment The work session adjourned at ______ p.m. * Denotes no supporting information included in the packet. Auxiliary aids are available upon request to individuals with disabilities by calling the City Clerk at (763) 531-1145 at least 96 hours in advance. TTY users may call Minnesota Relay at 711 or 1-800-627-3529. Page 1 of 4 COUNCIL STAFF REPORT DATE: July 9, 2025 FROM: John Sutter, Community Development Director TO: Mayor and Council City Manager Adam R. Bell RE: Blue Line Extension 60% plans and Environmental Impact Statement update 60% Plans On June 3, 2025, the project released plans at a 60% level of design detail (“60% plans”), except for the 47th Avenue area which staff received on July 8. There is a 45 day comment window which closes on Friday, July 18. At the July 15 work session, staff will go over the attached roll plots and highlight our significant comments on the 60% plans. (Note: Many of staff’s comments to the project are merely technical in nature, and are not listed in this staff report.) The following items may be of Council interest, and may or may not be covered in the work session due to time constraints: TPSS on west side of BNSF at 60th • Landscaping will be similar to what was designed for the previous version of the project, which was acceptable to the adjacent homeowners at that time. Requesting confirmation of project outreach to current homeowners. Signal house at northeast corner of Bottineau and Bass Lake Road • This would be located on the former Valvoline site south of Cities Auto which is anticipated to be a total acquisition. The signal house would be screened and buffered from the homes across Brunswick/Lakeland with landscaping and a stormwater pond. Page 2 of 4 TPSS on west side of Bottineau at Fairview and signal house at 49th • For the signal house at 49th, the relocated landscape bed must include plants tall enough to screen it from adjacent residences. • For the TPSS at Fairview, it looks like the screening consists only of a tall fence, with nothing else to soften this hardscape for adjacent residences. • For both: Requesting confirmation of project outreach to the adjacent homeowners. Crystal Lake Regional Trail relocated • Between Bass Lake Road and Airport Road/Lakeland, the Crystal Lake Regional Trail will be relocated to the east side of Crystal Medical and Crystal Vision. This is necessary to create space for the interchange at Bass Lake Road. • The project will reconstruct the backage road (Lakeland/Brunswick/Colorado) and construct the new trail along the westerly side of the backage road. • There are private sidewalks connecting the existing Crystal Lake Regional Trail to Crystal Medical Center and Crystal Vision Clinic, but these will be rendered obsolete by the project’s relocation of the trail. The project needs to remove these sidewalks and restore turf, or offer “cost to cure” to the respective owners. • Staff participated in a meeting for the Colorado and Brunswick residents who would be across the street from the trail and there were no objections from those residents. Bass Lake Road median between Elmhurst and Sherburne • Project has agreed to include landscaping of this median in the project, similar to other medians. Staff believes this is important to discourage mid-block crossing, further beautify the area, and provide traffic calming to slow speeds on Bass Lake Road which is posted at 30 mph. Due to the narrow character of this median, it is unclear whether trees would be appropriate here. Details to be forthcoming in the 90% plans. Crosswalk at Elmhurst • The plans show a standard RRFB for the crosswalk at Elmhurst. This is not acceptable to the city. At minimum, it needs to have an overhead indicator in conjunction with the RRFB to help get traffic to stop, if not a full-on HAWK signal. Decorative treatments on bridges/structures/walls • Staff is requesting clarification regarding what the project will do without making the city pay extra. For example, could the city logo or other decorative features be incorporated into the concrete work? “Welcome to Crystal” sign north of the cell tower • This was installed in 2011 as part of the Bottineau reconstruction project. It will not be impacted by the Blue Line project. Does the Council want to replace it with something else? And if so, should we do it now, or after the project is done? (There’s no harm in leaving it alone and evaluating it after the project is done.) Page 3 of 4 Crosswalks at right turn “porkchop” medians • There are five of these in the project, located at Corvallis/51st (2), Wilshire (1) and Bass Lake Road (2). The plans show no crosswalk markings at these locations. Staff requested crosswalk tables at these locations, but the project cannot include those due to state aid design rules. As a second-best pedestrian safety measure, the project must stripe and sign these in the same way as other intersection crosswalks in the project. Roadway speed limits • To illustrate the full context, staff has requested a one page speed zone exhibit showing the proposed speed limits on Bottineau from Lowry to 73rd. • Based on the plans: - In Robbinsdale, the proposed limit would be 35 mph where it is 40 today. - In Crystal, the limits are proposed to be the same as they are today, except that the southbound transition from 55 mph to 45, currently south of Bass Lake Road, would move even further south so it would be south of Wilshire. - Staff has questioned why a highway-style 55 mph limit would still be appropriate on this road when the lanes will be narrower (11’ instead of 12’ today) and there will be no third lane to serve as an ersatz breakdown lane. And if so, then will the county increase the speed limit on, say, Rockford Road in Plymouth west of 169 from 45 mph to 55? • Staff has requested that the westbound Bass Lake Road transition from 35 mph to 30 be located west of Adair Avenue instead of west of Bottineau. This change would help ensure a safer pedestrian environment around the ramp signals where there are many crosswalks and bike/ped activity will increase significantly due to the station. It would also put the westbound transition from 35 mph to 30 at the same location as the eastbound transition from 30 mph to 35. 47th Avenue intersection • Staff is requesting a prohibition on U-turns from northbound Bottineau to southbound Bottineau to allow for a safe right turn overlap for eastbound 47th, which in turn would improve operation of that signal and reduce delays. The county installed a right turn overlap at the Corvallis signal a few years ago, and it works very well. • The project proposes to eliminate the boulevard between the west side trail and the new roadway curb, and place the trail/sidewalk directly behind the roadway curb. This is unacceptable, because: - The southbound portion of Bottineau is five lanes wide at 47th and all that snow will just get pushed onto the trail, which the city will have to plow. - It's really bad from a ped/bike safety perspective to have the trail/sidewalk right next to the roadway, given the roadway speeds and traffic volumes on Bottineau. - Approx. 15 years ago, the county required the city to pay 50% of the ROW cost to build what’s out there today, including the existing boulevard between the trail and the roadway, so the project shouldn't take that away. Page 4 of 4 Trees • Staff is requesting a count of trees removed and proposed new trees to be planted. • Trees not located in an irrigated landscape bed must be watered by the project for at least two years. Medians alongside the LRT guideway • The plans show narrower medians as concrete and wider medians as landscape beds. Either way, being located between a busy traffic lane and LRT guideway, maintenance will be a challenge. Staff questions for the project: - Who owns and maintain these landscape beds? The city will not be responsible for maintenance of landscape beds along the LRT guideway. - Will irrigation be installed for these landscape beds? - Could the concrete medians be tinted or have some other treatment to make them more decorative? - Does Metro Transit spray concrete medians for weeds periodically? Environmental Impact Statement update • On Aug. 2, 2024, the city formally commented on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“SDEIS”). • On May 22, 2025, the project released the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (“SFEIS”), wherein the project addressed the majority of the city’s 2024 SDEIS comments, but not the following three items: 1. Traffic shift from Bottineau Boulevard to West Broadway (vehicular traffic) 2. Southbound queuing on Bottineau approaching Highway 100 (vehicular traffic) 3. Increased demand on local first responders (public safety) • After Council discussion at the June 17 work session, the city formally commented on the SFEIS with the attached June 23 letter. • Staff followed up with the attached on July 1 Sun Post guest column. • Staff is awaiting a response from the project. Page 1 of 4 4141 Douglas Drive North • Crystal, Minnesota 55422-1696 Tel: (763) 531-1000 • Fax: (763) 531-1188 • www.crystalmn.gov June 23, 2025 Alicia Vap Project Director METRO Blue Line Extension 6465 Wayzata Blvd #500 St Louis Park, MN 55426 Subject: City of Crystal comments on Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement for the METRO Blue Line Extension Dear Ms. Vap: Thank you for the opportunity to formally comment on the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (“SFEIS”) for the METRO Blue Line Extension (“the project”). The city appreciates that several items from the city’s Aug. 2, 2024, comment letter regarding the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“SDEIS”) were specifically addressed. However, the city is disappointed that the following three items from the city’s Aug. 2, 2024, comment letter were not addressed in the SFEIS: Vehicular Traffic - SDEIS comment 1(b) City SDEIS comment from Aug. 2, 2024: “The SDEIS does not specifically evaluate the traffic shift from Bottineau Blvd. to West Broadway due to the lane reduction on Bottineau. x This need is supported by the future diversion of 1,000 AADT from Bottineau Blvd. to the parallel segment of West Broadway in the no-build forecast. x This diversion would likely be greater due to the project and its reduction of lanes on Bottineau Blvd. from six lanes to four. Page 2 of 4 x The city is concerned about diversion of traffic from an existing high-speed limited access road to a low-speed road of substandard condition and configuration, as described in the City Council’s July 16, 2024, letter to the project. x The traffic shift needs to be specifically evaluated in the revised forecast, model, and simulation. Only then can the project’s impact on West Broadway be correctly evaluated.” City comment regarding the SFEIS released May 23, 2025: The SFEIS does not acknowledge or discuss the traffic shift to West Broadway (CSAH 8). If the project did complete the evaluation specifically requested by the city on Aug. 2, 2024, the project has failed to include it in the SFEIS or provide it separately for city review and comment. If such an evaluation exists, then it should have been included in the SFEIS so the city could use the 30-day comment period to review and comment on the substance of the analysis. Instead, the project’s failure to include it in the SFEIS has relegated the city to use the 30-day comment period to call out this omission from the SFEIS. The June 23, 2025 email from the project stating that “the amount of additional traffic did not change traffic operation on CSAH 8” is unsatisfactorily vague and completely sidesteps the city’s primary concern - that the project would divert traffic from a modern roadway (CSAH 81) to a substandard roadway (CSAH 8) with many deficiencies, most importantly a lack of accommodations for non-motorized travel. The June 23 email further states that “CSAH 8 will be the responsibility of Hennepin County,” which is an inappropriately blithe response because evaluating the impact of Metro Transit’s project and potential mitigation measures is the responsibility of Metro Transit. Vehicular Traffic - SDEIS comment 1(d) City SDEIS comment from Aug. 2, 2024: “The SDEIS does not specifically evaluate the impact of the lane reduction on the existing southbound queuing problem north of the 47th Avenue signal. x Existing backups during the a.m. peak typically extend to 50th Avenue and occasionally extend through the Corvallis intersection. And this is with three southbound lanes. x The project proposes to eliminate the third southbound lane except for a short segment from Lakeside to 47th Avenue, which is approximately half the length of the existing a.m. peak queue. x It is a reasonable assumption that the project’s significant reduction of road space will cause the southbound queues to extend further north and occur more frequently than in the existing condition. Page 3 of 4 x Due to the proposed interchange at Bass Lake Road, southbound traffic will be transitioning from a wide-open, freeway-style͕ϭЫŵŝůĞůŽŶŐ segment south of 63rd Ave. to traffic signals with congestion and queues. x Southbound traffic would be cresting the bridge over the CPKC when it would first see the slowed or stopped queue, with little time to react. Having a third lane start just 1,000 feet north of 47th does not address this real-world traffic safety problem. x The SDEIS must specifically evaluate the southbound queuing problem. Only then can the project’s impact on traffic movement and safety be correctly evaluated.” City comment regarding the SFEIS released May 23, 2025: The SFEIS does not acknowledge or discuss the impact of the lane reduction on the existing southbound queuing problem north of the 47th Avenue signal. If the project did complete the evaluation specifically requested by the city on Aug. 2, 2024, the project has failed to include it in the SFEIS or provide it separately for city review and comment. If such an evaluation exists, then it should have been included in the SFEIS so the city could use the 30-day comment period to review and comment on the substance of the analysis. Instead, the project’s failure to include it in the SFEIS has relegated the city to use the 30-day comment period to call out this omission from the SFEIS. The June 23, 2025 email from the project stating that “the queuing concern occurs for a short period of time in the morning and that including the choice lane could create safety issues for the drivers” is unsatisfactory for at least two reasons: (1) it is dismissive of the anticipated impact of the project on a known, existing, real-world traffic problem, and (2) it rules out one potential mitigation measure without including the analysis to support that conclusion. Public Safety - SDEIS comment 7 City SDEIS comment from Aug. 2, 2024: “The SDEIS does not evaluate the impact of the project on public safety in general and local law enforcement agencies in particular. The SDEIS merely lists those agencies and the broad categories or services they provide. x The city is likely to see increased demand for police services based on the known reality of what happens at LRT stations in other jurisdictions. x Even a fully-staffed Metro Transit Police Dept. would frequently be delayed and sometimes totally unavailable, causing the Crystal Police Dept. to be the first responding agency at the Bass Lake Road station. x The SDEIS needs to evaluate the public safety impacts, including the increased demand for services from local first responders. Only then can the impacts on public safety be correctly evaluated.” Page 4 of 4 City comment regarding the SFEIS released May 23, 2025: The SFEIS does not evaluate the increased demand for services from local first responders such as city police departments. This concern has been brought up by the Crystal City Council, city staff, and community members repeatedly in various settings for some time. While it is worthwhile and essential to design the project with public safety in mind, this is no substitute for estimating the increased demands on local law enforcement as a result of the project. The city does not understand why this analysis was not included in the SFEIS, as 9-1-1 call data and police reports should be available for the project to estimate the percentage of calls to which Metro Transit Police are the first responders on scene versus local police departments. Because the primary purpose of the EIS process is to identify impacts and propose mitigations, this analysis should have been included in the SFEIS so the city could use the 30-day comment period to review and comment on the substance of the analysis. Instead, the project’s failure to include it in the SFEIS has relegated the city to use the 30-day comment period to call out this omission from the SFEIS Also, while SFEIS describes plans for a Metro Transit Police substation at the Downtown Robbinsdale station, two miles from the Bass Lake Road station, there is no discussion of a commitment by Metro Transit Police to staff the station at any particular level. The existence of a police substation does little to reduce the project’s burden on local police departments if the substation ends up being an empty office most of the time. And because there is no estimate of the impacts of the project on local police departments and other first responders, there is no way to evaluate whether the police substation would actually mitigate those impacts. The city appreciates this opportunity to formally comment on the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement. The city also appreciates the commitment, stated in the June 23, 2025, email from the project, “to work with City staff on including appropriate amount of detail to respond in the AROD.” Please feel free to contact me at 763.531.1140 or adam.bell@crystalmn.gov with any questions. Thank you. Sincerely, Adam R. Bell City Manager cc: Charlie Zelle, Chair, Corridor Management Committee, METRO Blue Line Extension Commissioner Jeff Lunde, Hennepin County Board, District 1 Council Member Anjuli Cameron, Metropolitan Council, District 8 d R B ll https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_post/free/column-clarifying-crystals-position-on-the-blue-line- extension/article_a43f85d0-5c62-4e86-b289-62594c763815.html The City of Crystal (“the city”) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the recent Sun Post article regarding the environmental review for the METRO Blue Line Extension (“the project”). First, while there have been and continue to be areas of disagreement between the city and the project, this should not be construed as opposition to the project. The city is supportive of the project and looks forward to improved transit service for the community. Disagreements between the city (or any city) and the project are a normal and healthy part of developing a large infrastructure project. The end goal of all parties is to deliver the best project possible. Here is the sequence of events related to the city’s comments on the environmental impact statement: · On Aug. 2, 2024, the city sent a letter to the project formally commenting on potential impacts related to the following seven subject areas contained in specific chapters within the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“2024 SDEIS”): Vehicular traffic, parking, noise, visual quality, utilities, stormwater and public safety. · On May 23, 2025, the project released the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (“2025 SFEIS”). The 2025 SFEIS did address a majority of the city’s Aug. 2, 2024 comments on the 2024 SDEIS. However, the 2025 SFEIS did not address three potential impacts identified by the city in its Aug. 2, 2024 comments on the 2024 SDEIS: 1. Traffic shift from Bottineau Boulevard to West Broadway (vehicular traffic) 2. Southbound queuing on Bottineau approaching Highway 100 (vehicular traffic) 3. Increased demand on local first responders (public safety) · On June 17, 2025, the Crystal City Council discussed these issues in a work session and directed staff to formally comment on the 2025 SFEIS. · On June 23, 2025, the city sent the attached letter formally commenting on the 2025 SFEIS. The city’s opinion is that the three potential impacts identified by the city but not addressed in the 2025 SFEIS are within the scope of the environmental impact statement. Vehicular traffic and public safety are specific components of the environment review, respectively located in Sections 3.4 and 4.7 of both the 2024 SDEIS and 2025 SFEIS. At this time, the city is awaiting the project’s response to our June 23, 2025 letter. We will continue to work with the project to resolve these issues in some way prior to the Amended Record of Decision being completed for the environmental impact statement. The city’s ultimate goal is to help make the METRO Blue Line Extension a successful addition to the regional transit system. 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SIZE OF TPSS FINAL LOCATION TBD Memorandum DATE: July 1, 2025 TO: Mayor and Council FROM: Adam Bell, City Manager Kimberly Therres, Assistant City Manager/Human Resources Manager SUBJECT: Labor Relations Update and Negotiations Discussion The city has three bargaining units: • International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 49 (public works). • Law Enforcement Labor Services, Local 44 (patrol officers). • Law Enforcement Labor Services, Local 56 (police supervisors). We are currently in negotiations with Local 44 and Local 56 for the next contract. We are anticipating negotiations with Local 49 will begin soon. Staff would like to meet in a closed session with the city council to provide an update on these negotiations and discuss strategy. Labor Relations Attorney Susan Hansen, Assistant City Manager Kim Therres and I will be at the work session to answer questions. In accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Section 13D.03, this portion of the work session will be closed to consider strategy for labor negotiations. Prior to closing the work session, the Mayor should announce the time, place and purpose of the closed portion during the open public portion of the work session. The closed session will be recorded.