Built Environment & Transportation
This committee fosters community input and advocacy—identifying, articulating, and advancing neighborhood concerns related to East Isles developments.
Committee Chair: Brian Lammers
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Built Environment & Transportation (BET) tends a range of topics:
traffic volumes, speeds, congestion, parking programs for residents and businesses, safety, improvements (e.g. re-designs, re-routes including changes in one/two way direction, over underpasses), alternative modes including transit whether trolley/LRT/busses on the Midtown Greenway or major routes of Hennepin Ave, Lagoon Ave and Lake St, bicycling and walking, ADA and senior accessibility including snow and ice removal, sidewalks, streetscapes, alleyways, street furniture and streetscape beautification (e.g. graffiti identification, public artwork around utility boxes, billboards), and more.
Projects in East Isles
Click the links listed here for updated information from official sources:
Smith Triangle Park: Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board will be gathering community input in 2026 for park updates in 2027.
Hennepin Ave. S. Reconstruction: Minneapolis Public Works has been reconstructing Hennepin Ave. S. between W. Lake St. and Douglas Ave. Scheduled to fully wrap in 2026.
Bde Maka Ska Refectory Rebuild: Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board is rebuilding the refectory building lost to fire in 2019
Cedar Lake-Lake of the Isles Master Plan: Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board is creating a 20-year vision for Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles and surrounding parkland
The Mall Park Trail and Site Improvements: Trail and site improvements identified during the Southwest Service Area Master Planning Process will be implemented in conjunction with MCES sewer construction (see below)
East Isles Sewer Improvements Project: Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) is planning to replace and enlarge the aging regional sanitary sewer pipe and structures near Lake of the Isles and The Mall.