Res 1992 - 70 Requesting that Signal Lights be Installed at the Intersection of Dodd Rd & Mendota Heights RdCity of Mendota Heights
Dakota County, Minnesota
RESOLU'i'ION NO. 92-70
RESOLUTION REQUESTING �'HAT SIGNAL LIGHTS BE INSTALI.�ID
AT THE INTTRSECTION OF DODD ROAD (TRUNB ffiGHWAY 149)
AND MENDOTA HEIGHTS ROAD
WHEREAS, the City of Mendota. Heights has received a petition with over five hundred
signatures requesting that a traffic signal be installed at the intersection of Dodd Road (Trunk
Highway 149) and Mendota Heights Road; and
Vi�R�A�, there has been a history of serious accidents accurring at the in�erse�tion; and
WHEREAS, there aze two private high schools near the intersection that produce a lazge
number of school buses and inexperienced drivers at the intersection; and
WHEREAS, there is a sight distance problem assaciated with the intersection; and
WHEREAS, the intersection is extra ordinarily wide and east bound traff'ic on Mendota
Heights Road can fmd it diff'icult seeing the stop sign.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Mendota
Heights getitions the State of Minnesota to install traffic signals as soon as possible at the intersec-
tion of Mendota. Heights Road and Dadd Road (Trunk Highway 149).
Adopted by the Mendota Heights City Council this 20th day of October, 1992
CITY COUNCII.
CITY OF MENDOTA HIIGHTS
By -�.,.-� � Gt�..�.�'".aa�'
Charles E. Mertensotto, Mayor
ATTPST:
— �i
athleen M. Swanson, City Clerk