Site Development Unit
Goal
The goal of the Site Development Unit (SDU) is to provide planning, programming and design services in the following areas:
- Safety Rest Areas and Waysides
- Historic Roadside Properties and Waysides
- State Entry Monuments
- Park and Ride facilities
- Department Building sites
Products the unit provides
The SDU provides the following products for MnDOT safety rest areas, historic roadside properties and state entry monuments:
- Site plans from concept through to construction bid documents
- Partnership agreements
- Special project implementation
- Early Notification Memos
- Environmental Documents including Programmatic and Non-Programmatic Categorical Exclusions (CATEXs)
- Customer feedback reports
- Communications documents and displays
- Interpretive displays
- Research documents
- Policy documents
What to expect from the unit
The SDU provides the following services for MnDOT safety rest areas, historic roadside properties and state entry monuments:
- Investment planning and programming
- Operations and maintenance guidance
- Compliance analysis with applicable federal and state laws and regulations
- Facility and special project partnership development
- Project management for design and construction
- Early Notification Memo preparation and distribution
- Early Notification Memo responses for facilities impacted by other MnDOT projects
- Environmental Documents preparation
- Design services
- Construction administration
- Responses to customer and other stakeholders
- Market research
- Technical research
- Policy implementation
- Advocacy
In addition, the SDU provides professional landscape architectural services including:
- Project management for non-corridor related architectural and site projects
- Layout, site, grading and planting plan and specification development for department facilities
- Visual Impact Assessments for non-corridor related architectural and site projects
What you need to provide to the unit
Various items depending on the product and service requested so early communication and coordination required.
What the unit expects from you
What the SDU expects from you will vary greatly based on the requested services or products. So please contact the SDU for more information. The SDU believes the best products and services result from a team approach with the Districts and Central Office Functional Groups. Therefore, the SDU expects the following attributes from team members:
- Creative thinking and open-mindedness
- Active collaboration
- Customer-focused decision-making
- Timeliness, responsiveness and accountability
- An understanding and appreciation of the unique transportation facilities managed by the SDU