South/Commerce Street Steering Committee

MINUTES CITY OF MINERAL POINT COMMERCE/SOUTH STREET STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – 9:00 AM City Hall Community Room CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL Meeting called to order by Administrator Honer at 9:04 AM. Burrows Excused Spady Present Cisler Present Henninger Absent Sielaff Present Sorum Present Others Present: Matthew Honer, Christy Skelding, Nate Fosbinder, Mark Digman, Bart Nies, Chase Ivey, Dan Ivey APPROVAL OF JANUARY 23, 2025 MINUTES. Motion (Cisler/Spady) to approve minutes from the January 23, 2025 meeting. Motion carried, all voting aye (4-0). DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF COMMERCE AND SOUTH STREETS. Bart Nies and Mark Digman with Delta 3 Engineering provided a re-cap of what was discussed at the January meeting. Digman presented three design options for the committee to discuss. Option 1: There would be a sidewalk on the east side of Commerce only to maximize the road width and to try to gain more parking stalls. This option would provide 4’ sidewalks and make the street 34’ from back of curb to back of curb. The street would widen to 38’ from Front Street to Old Darlington Road and this section has 30 proposed parking stalls instead of 28. There are currently 65 standard parking stalls on Commerce Street/South Street from Fountain Street to Old Darlington Road. With option one, six standard parking stalls would be added for a total of 71 stalls. On South Street, there are 18-20 parking stalls and green space proposed. Option 2: The road would be narrower than in option one. Parking would be lost on the west side of Commerce Street in order to get 4’ sidewalks on both sides of the street. Proposed crosswalks are added at South Street and Front Street. With option two, there would be 56 standard parking stalls, losing 9 stalls from the way it is currently on Commerce Street. Option 3: This option closely represents the current situation on Commerce Street. The road would be 38’ wide from back of curb to back of curb on Commerce Street from Fountain Street to Old Darlington Road. There would be no sidewalk between Fountain Street and Front Street, and no “real” sidewalk on the west side of the street. South of Front Street would become narrower. The committee discussed all three options and decided on a hybrid model of option one, to include the proposed sidewalk from Fountain to Front Street as shown in option two. Motion (Cisler/Spady) to recommend Council approval of a hybrid between option one as presented, to include the proposed sidewalk on the west side of the street from Fountain Street to Front Street, as shown in option two. Motion carried by roll call, all voting aye (4-0). DISCUSSION OF MEETING CALENDAR AND TIMELINE Next meeting in July. ADJOURNMENT Motion (Spady/Cisler) to adjourn at 10:44 a.m. Motion carried, all voting aye (4-0). ________________________________ Matthew Honer, City Administrator Approved: