1972-4886rRESOLUTION N0. 4$$6
RESOLUTION CONCURRING WITH RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE VILLAGE
OF EDINA REQUESTING HENNEPIN COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO
RELOCATE COUNTY STATE AID HIGHWAY 31 FROM XERXES AVENUE TO
YORK AVENUE BEGINNING AT WEST 65TH STREET AND ENDING AT
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 0494
WHEREAS, Xerxes Avenue South is presently designated as County State Aid Higt~ia~ay
31 from West Forty-Fourth Street in the City of Minneapolis to Interstate Highway
4494 near the South boundary lines of the City of Richfield and the Village of Edina;
and
WHEREAS, improvement of County State Aid Highway 31 through the City of Richfield
and the Village of Edina from West Sixty-Sixth Street South to its terminus at Inte~°-
state i~494 could only be accomplished at great expense for additional right-of-way
and extreme disruption of existing single family residential areas and a disastrous
effect on existing ecological amenities and pub lie parkland in the vicinity of West
Seventy-Third Street; and
WHEREAS, the existing York Avenue South right-of-way in the proposed Yorktown
Addition, Village of Edina, from West Seventieth Street to West Seventy-Fourth Street,
is sufficient to accommodate necessary improvements without acquisition of additional
property or disruption of single family neighborhoods, ecological amenities and public
parkland.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Richfield concurs with tiie
esolution adopted by the Village of Edina on February 7, 1972 and hereby respectfully
request the County of Hennepin to abandon County State Aid Highway 31 between West Sixty-
Fifth Street and Interstate ~~494 and designate York Avenue South from G7est Sixty-Fifth
Street to Interstate ~~494 as County State Aid Highway 31.
1972.
Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield this 26th day of December,
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ATTEST:
Thomas J. Morai4~ City Clerk
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