Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 230-S.F.No. 1290 
           An act relating to local government; permitting the 
          cities of Bloomington, Edina, Richfield, Eden Prairie, 
          Minnetonka, Maple Grove, and Plymouth to establish a 
          transportation demand management program; providing 
          for a transportation demand management plan for the 
          capitol complex. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [BLOOMINGTON; RICHFIELD; EDINA; EDEN PRAIRIE; 
MINNETONKA; MAPLE GROVE; PLYMOUTH; TRANSPORTATION DEMAND 
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] For the purposes of this 
section, "transportation demand management" means the 
application of strategies involving both incentives and 
disincentives designed to redirect travel to use high occupancy 
modes or away from peak periods of travel so as to reduce the 
number of vehicle trips and accidents at critical times. 
    Subd. 2.  [TDM PROGRAMS.] The city councils of the cities 
of Bloomington, Edina, Richfield, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, 
Maple Grove, and Plymouth may, in consultation with the 
metropolitan council, establish by ordinance transportation 
demand management programs applicable to employers and 
commercial developers or owners of nonresidential buildings in 
each of their cities to mitigate existing and future traffic 
congestion in the cities and to preserve the environment by 
reducing air and noise pollution and energy consumption.  Each 
of the cities may charge reasonable fees to employers and 
commercial developers or owners of nonresidential buildings to 
administer the implementation of transportation demand 
management programs and impose civil penalties for violations of 
the ordinance.  The fees must not exceed $500 annually per 
employer.  
    Subd. 3.  [CAPITOL COMPLEX.] The department of 
administration shall, in consultation with the regional transit 
board, the metropolitan council, department of transportation, 
capitol area architectural board, and the city of St. Paul, 
develop a transportation demand management plan for the capitol 
complex.  The department shall report the plan to the 
legislature by February 1, 1994. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1, subdivision 2, is effective with respect to any 
of the cities of Bloomington, Edina, Richfield, Eden Prairie, 
Minnetonka, Maple Grove and Plymouth the day after compliance by 
that city with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 
3. 
    Presented to the governor May 14, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 17, 1993, 3:14 p.m.