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Improving Pedestrian Connections Brooklyn Boulevard LRT Station Area Active Living Hennepin County December 14, 2018 Jennifer Jordan, LRT Senior Project Manager Brooklyn Park Population of 80,581 4 th largest city in metro Minority


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Active Living Hennepin County December 14, 2018 Jennifer Jordan, LRT Senior Project Manager

Improving Pedestrian Connections

Brooklyn Boulevard LRT Station Area

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Brooklyn Park

  • Population of 80,581
  • 4th largest city in metro
  • Minority majority – 52%
  • 20% are foreign-born
  • Estimated to add

another 22,000 residents by 2040

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Current Conditions

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Brooklyn Boulevard Station Area Demographics

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Brooklyn Boulevard Station Area Plan Community Profile US Census 2010 Half-mile station area Brooklyn Park Hennepin County Population 2.339

75,781

1,152,388 Persons under 18 years 32%

29%

22% Persons over 65 years 6%

8%

12% Persons of color 64%

48%

24% Zero car households 14%

3%

11% Living in poverty 28%

12%

13% Life expectancy at station zip code: 80 years. Hennepin County: 81 years retrieved 10/10/18 RWJF USALEEP

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Brooklyn Boulevard Station – 90% Design View Looking Southwest

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  • Partnership with Hennepin

County, ACER, CAPI, La Asamblea, Cub Foods, and property owner Fine & Associates

  • Community and business

partners helped shape the project over a 6-month planning effort

  • Summer 2018 - June 21st

through September 30th

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Survey Results

  • 60% reported that cars were more

likely to stop for pedestrian crossing the parking lot

  • 50% reported they walked, biked
  • r rolled across the parking lot

either daily or a few times a week

  • 56% reported that they were more

likely to visit the shopping center because of the improvements

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Take-Aways

  • Behavioral change

doesn’t happen

  • vernight
  • Incremental

improvements will add up to big impact

  • ver time

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More to Come

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Jennifer Jordan

LRT Senior Project Manager 763-493-8137 Jennifer.jordan@brooklynpark.org

City of Brooklyn Park

5200 85th Ave. N. Brooklyn Park, MN 55443 tel 763-424-8000 fax 763-493-8391 www.brooklynpark.org Facebook: /brooklynparkmn Twitter: @brooklynparkEDA YouTube: /user/brooklynparkmncity