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Visual quality process

The visual quality process helps establish the community’s suggestions and recommendations regarding the visual characteristics of a reconstruction project.

 

 

Committee

The City of St. Louis Park helped establish a Visual Quality Advisory Committee (VQAC) comprised of community members, city and county representatives and community business leaders. The VQAC is the MnDOT project team’s direct link to suggestions, recommendations, concerns and input from the community. During the months preceding the reconstruction design phase, the committee works with MnDOT engineers, designers and the Visual Quality Management Team to discuss and establish visual characteristics, such as noise walls, vegetation and public art that align with the community’s identity and are consistent with the corridor’s aesthetics.

 

Members:

 

 

Meetings and minutes

Upcoming meetings:

 

Meetings held from 6 to 8 p.m. at:

St. Louis Park City Hall
5005 Minnetonka Blvd
St. Louis Park, 55416

 

Minutes:

 

 

Goals

  1. Develop a conceptual vision that responds to people who live, work and play in St. Louis Park and provides a narrative for designing the visual quality elements and how they relate to the surrounding community.
  2. Draft a Visual Quality Manual that articulates key visual quality elements, concepts and guidelines that may be used in the final design of the construction project. The key elements and recommendations of the manual are based on community geographic and demographic contexts and conform to MnDOT parameters.

 

 

Visual quality components