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RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DULUTH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN INTERSTATE COUNCIL'S DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION PLAN (2025).
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council's Duluth-Superior Area Bicycle Transportation Plan is a regional plan that the City of Duluth can use as a guide to decision-making related to Duluth's bikeway network.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the plan will help Duluth to achieve its goal of becoming bike-friendly;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council finds the following:
(a) It is in the best interest of the City to adopt the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council's Duluth-Superior Area Bicycle Transportation Plan (2025);
(b) The various city divisions have provided input and recommendations, have reviewed the draft plan, and recommend the adoption of this final bicycle plan;
(c) The Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council, after due public notice, conducted public meetings about this plan on the following dates: October 15, 2024, and February 13, 2025;
(d) The Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council's Bike and Pedestrian Committee at a special meeting on March 19,2025, voted unanimously to recommend adoption of the plan;
(e) The Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council, at its March 20, 2025 regular meeting, did approve unanimously to adopt the bikeways plan.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the attached document be adopted and that the plan for Duluth's bikeway system approved in 2019 be rescinded and replaced with the Duluth-Superior Area Bicycle Transportation Plan (2025).
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution adopts the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council's Duluth-Superior Area Bicycle Transportation Plan (2025) for the Duluth metropolitan planning area. The Plan is a sub-plan to the existing Duluth-Superior Long Range Transportation Plan. The Plan will help city staff and the community by providing a useful gu...
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