Hello Neighbors,
We need your help to maintain Minnewashta Parkway as a neighborhood and not a highway. It is a very pleasant area for walkers, runners, bikers and we need to take steps to ensure it remains a parkway for access to our homes, neighborhoods, parks, beach, arboretum and not a bypass highway for industrial use.
We encourage you to send your concerns to the following Chanhassen representatives. We have provided a draft example of the message you could send. If you like the message, then just simply copy and paste into an email and send to the addresses listed below.
In addition, please support this common cause by attending the October 28, 7 PM City Council will be meeting to discuss plans for the Minnewashta Parkway improvement project. We need your voice to be heard in written form and to attend the meeting.
GBender@ci.chanhassen.mn.us, Engineer for this project
jwedel@ci.chanhassen.mn.us, Chief Engineer
eryan@ci.chanhassen.mn.us, Mayor
SAMPLE MESSAGE TO BE EMAILED:
Dear Chanhassen Mayor and Staff,
SAVE MINNEWASHTA PARKWAY!
We need your help to save our neighborhood. We wish to maintain Minnewashta Parkway as a true parkway serving neighborhoods, walkers, runners, bikers, park visitors, beach visitors and a gateway to the Arboretum. Chanhassen is beginning a process to rebuild Minnewashta Parkway and intends to assess the parkway residents. However, the parkway is designated as a “feeder road” for highway 5 and highway 7 and a high speed bypass between the two highways. Multiple axle dump trucks and other industrial vehicles commonly use Minnewashta Parkway to avoid the stop lights on other roads such as highway 41. It is very wrong to expose a neighborhood and parkway to this kind of exposure. We should not be encouraging the use of Minnewashta Parkway as a thoroughfare for industrial vehicles. It is very puzzling on why residents of Minnewashta Parkway should assessed for the rebuild of a “highway” that has been deteriorated by industrial vehicles. On the other hand, the neighbors in the Minnewashta Parkway area absolutely would support working together for the maintenance and health of a neighborhood parkway. We are entitled to this benefit as residents, tax payers and those that will be assessed. Plus, we are being assessed also for the walk/running/bike path and we support this activity!!
This is also a great opportunity to ensure zero run off to the lake. We need to ensure all street drains are going to holding ponds for runoff control and not to the waterway. Some drains are going to the waterway, for example, drains to the creek and then to Lake Virginia, Minnetonka, Minnehaha Creek, Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico. Now is a good time to protect our water ways. We can do better and be a model for the future.
CHANHASSEN! It is time to do the right thing for the environment and your neighbors!
