S.F. No. 5528 Summary

• Establishes the Rondo Restorative Development Authority as a public body to oversee construction, development, financing, and long-term operations of a land bridge over Interstate 94 in St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood from Lexington Avenue to Rice Street.

• Creates a 17-member board of commissioners with four-year terms appointed by ReConnect Rondo (5 seats), Rondo Roundtable (4 seats), St. Paul mayor (2 seats), and one representative each from Saint Paul Public Schools, governor, Metropolitan Council, Ramsey County, state senate, and state house.

• Grants the authority powers to acquire and dispose of real property, including air rights, through lease, purchase, condemnation, or gift, with minimum 99-year leases for state air space rights and renewal options.

• Authorizes the authority to contract for design, construction, and maintenance services under prevailing wage requirements and to establish charitable foundations, nonprofits, and statutory trusts for land bridge development purposes.

• Exempts the authority from Metropolitan Council review under sections 473.165 and 473.173 and from the Business Subsidy Act, recognizing the project's purpose of addressing historic racial inequities from the 1950s destruction of the Rondo neighborhood.