Memo - Southwest Light Rail Transit Station master Planning UpdateMEMO
To: Honorable Mayor and Hopkins City Council
From: Tara Beard, Community Development Coordinator
Date: April 14, 2009
Subject: Southwest Light Rail Transit Station Master Planning Update
City staff has been working with Hennepin County and consultant Hay Dobbs on a year -long
station area master plan process for the proposed Southwest LRT line that will go through St.
Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka, and Eden Prairie. Three of the twelve stations proposed for
the Southwest Line are in the City of Hopkins: Blake Rd, 8 th Ave /Downtown, and Shady Oak
Rd. The planning process began in the summer of 2008 with data collection, including
extensive review of previous efforts planning for the transitway. In October of 2008 the first of
two invitation -only stakeholder visioning sessions were held that included property and business
owners close to the station areas and other interested parties. These preliminary efforts lead to a
draft concept plan that was presented to City staff in February and at a second stakeholder
meeting in March 2009. Hay Dobbs is now presenting that concept plan to the Hopkins City
Council for input before the first of two public meetings is held on April 21, 2009.
The packet attached includes a conceptual land use plan, movement diagram, and site
development plan for each of the three stations.
Attachments:
Southwest LRT — Hopkins Stations concept plans
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