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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/03/1999 - ITEMS RELATING TO MASTER STREET PLAN AMENDMENTS AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 28 DATE: August 3, 1999 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: John F. Fischbach SUBJECT: Items Relating to Master Street Plan Amendments. RECOMMENDATION: f Staff recommends adoption of the Resolutions. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The cost of the improvements required to build an arterial street on the Modified Vine alignment is projected to be $45.4 million. Of that amount, the City can reasonably expect to receive $19.8 million in Street Oversizing fees and $5.1 million in Local Street Portion contributions by development on the north side of the street($24.9 million total). The remainder,or$20.5 million,would be the responsibility of the City. The cost of the improvements required to build an enhanced major arterial street for the purpose of relocating Colorado Highway 14 on the Modified Vine alignment is projected to be $51.3 million. As a highway the project has the potential of receiving up to 80% from federal and state sources or $41 million. Both Street Oversizing fees and Local Street Portion contributions would still apply and could be applied to the City's local share of the cost of the highway. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A. Resolution 99-100 Amending the Master Street Plan so as to Establish a New Category of Streets Known as"Enhanced Major Arterial Streets"and Designating a Portion of East Vine Drive as an Enhanced Major Arterial. A resolution designating a portion of East Vine Drive was first presented to Council on June 15, 1999. That Resolution failed on a 3-3 vote of the City Council. This agenda item again presents to City Council the question of whether the Modified Vine Alternative should be designated as an enhanced major arterial. This action establishes a category of streets known as"enhanced major arterial streets,"with a right- of-way width requirement up to two hundred fifty one (251) feet as described in Exhibit B. It will also amend the Master Street plan to show the proposed Modified Vine Alternative as a future enhanced major arterial street in order to accommodate either an major arterial street,an alternative truck route and/or the possible relocation of Colorado Highway 14. In addition,the classification of the old alignment of Vine Drive from Lemay Avenue to Redwood Street would be changed to a local street and the classification of the old Vine Drive from Redwood to College Avenue would be changed to a minor arterial. These changes are included in Exhibit A. I DATE: August 3, 1999 2 ITEM NUMBER: 28 This action also directs the City Manager to negotiate with Larimer County a proposed intergovernmental agreement between the County and the City which would require that all new development in the County accommodate the streets and transportation facilities shown on the City's Master Street Plan and to submit the proposed agreement to the City Council for its consideration. Finally, the resolution directs the City Manager to continue planning, design, and right-of-way acquisition to allow for the possible construction of either a major arterial,an alternative truck route and/or the relocation of Colorado Highway 14 along the Modified Vine Alternative route. This action does not relocate Colorado Highway 14 at this time,but does amend the Master Street Plan to allow for future planning and right-of-way acquisition for the potential relocation of Highway 14. B. Resolution 99-101 Amending the Structure Plan Map and the Mountain Vista Area Sub Area Plan Regarding The Establishment of an Enhanced Major Arterial Street Along a Portion of East Vine Drive. This action updates these documents to reflect the changes made in the previous resolution. BACKGROUND: This item is being brought back to City Council. It was first presented on June 15, 1999. Staff is providing essentially the same background information as provided in June. The relocation of Colorado Highway 14 out of the downtown historic district has been studied for over forty years. Proposals to build a new alignment for the highway have also been made during that time yet no decision has been made to precipitate the move. As Fort Collins has grown and the volume of traffic through the historic downtown has increased, the problems with leaving Colorado Highway 14 in the downtown area have intensified. In 1997, City voters approved Building Community Choices that included financial resources for developing an alternative travel route in the northeast quadrant of the city. Projections for future growth in northeast Fort Collins are substantial. If realized, future opportunities to move Highway 14, including the truck traffic, would be severely limited. This project was approved on April 8, 1997,by the Building Community Choices (Ordinance 31) vote. The official language used to describe the Highway 14 Relocation-NE Fort Collins Truck Route Project was "This project will provide for the planning, design, right-of-way acquisition, and/or other project costs associated with road improvements for an alternative truck route in the northeast quadrant of the City". The Highway 14 Relocation-NE Fort Collins Truck Route Project was initiated in February 1998. The project team included Transportation Planning staff and consultants from the firm Balloffet& Associates. A Citizens Advisory Committee and a Technical Advisory Committee were established to guide the process and provide input into the research and development of alternatives and staff recommendations. DATE: August 3, 1999 3 ITEM NUMBER: 28 The Citizen Advisory Committee included representatives of the affected neighborhoods as well as members from the city at large. The Technical Advisory Committee included representatives from various City departments including Traffic, Transportation Planning, Storm Water, and Advance Planning. In addition, the Technical Advisory Committee also included representatives from Larimer County Public Works, the Federal Highway Administration, the Colorado Department of Transportation, and the Colorado Department of Revenue. The Highway 14 Relocation - NE Fort Collins Truck Route Project was coordinated with the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan, a plan City Council adopted earlier this year. The joint planning between these two efforts ensured that land use and transportation were considered essential elements of both proposed plans as they were developed. The Highway 14 Relocation-NE Fort Collins Truck Route Project was conducted as a"deductive" planning process. It began with a broad view of the possibilities available to the City to move Highway 14 and narrowed those alternatives as information and analysis became available through the sixteen month planning process. Staff, consultants, and committees examined nineteen route alternatives with two additional alternatives suggested by City Council for a total of twenty-one that were analyzed. The final six alternatives include the following routes: 1. Modified Vine 2. Mulberry/Lemay/Vine 3. Mulberry/Timberline/Vine 4. Vine 5. County Road 58 6. A Downtown Couplet (Jefferson Street and R'illow Street) The following problems and disadvantages associated with four of the six alternatives make them undesirable, unworkable, and/or too costly. 1. The Mulberry/Lemay Alternative ♦ Traffic engineering design difficulties at Mulberry and Lemay ♦ Very high level of future traffic demand predicted in both the Mulberry and Lemay corridors ♦ Very high intensity of commercial development at Mulberry and Lemay ♦ Proximity to residential development ♦ Limited mitigation opportunities in the Lemay corridor 2. The Vine Alternative ♦ Was the least expensive of the alternatives examined, but separated the Alta Vista neighborhood from Buckingham and Andersonville ♦ Displaced eight additional homes beyond other alternatives ♦ Limited mitigation opportunities through the Alta Vista and Andersonville neighborhoods DATE: August 3, 1999 4 ITEM NUMBER: 28 3. The County Road 58 Alternative ♦ Cost estimate is $50 million greater than the Master Street Plan ♦ Would not provide a connection to existing Highway 14/Mulberry for 85,000 lb. gross vehicle weight trucks. The additional cost for improving the frontage road would be an additional $18 million ♦ Is 3 miles longer than the current route from I-25 to the potential future intersection of US 287 and extended CR 58 (Existing route = 11.5 miles versus 14.5 miles) Adding additional miles to the highway system is unacceptable to CDOT. ♦ Based on traffic model projections, the County Road 58 route would attract only 1,500 total vehicles. Less than 500 vehicles would divert from Mulberry and Vine ♦ Is located in Larimer County,not Fort Collins. Approvals for this alternative would be necessary from the County. ♦ Is located in the Upper Front Range instead of the North Front Range. Therefore, any CDOT funding would need to be obtained from the Upper Front Range to address a North Front Range concern. ♦ The CR 58 alternative would require CDOT 1601 and FHWA approval for a new interchange. Key to this approval is justification that there are no alternatives available to the recommended new interchange. ♦ Could result in growth inducement. 4. The Downtown Couplet Alternative ♦ Would require crossing four additional sets of railroad tracks, in addition to the current two sets of tracks on Mulberry at Riverside and College north of Willow ♦ The City would likely be required to grade separate roads at railroad crossings ♦ Cost estimate is nearly $11 million greater than the Master Street Plan ♦ There would be major capacity and safety problems with the merge of eastbound Mountain/Lincoln through traffic with northwest bound Riverside to Lincoln traffic ♦ Homes and businesses would need to be purchased along Riverside and College to accommodate the additional traffic lanes ♦ Parking would need to be removed along College to accommodate a second southbound left turn lane ♦ Truck deliveries to uses along Willow, such as Ranchway Feed would be impacted ♦ Limited mitigation opportunities exist ♦ Trucks and Highway 14 would remain in historic downtown Fort Collins The fifth alternative,Mulberry/Timberline/Vine,is primarily viewed as a phasing or interim step to implement the Modified Vine recommendation. It contains the same alignment west of Timberline as the Modified Vine alternative and could likely function for a number of years as an interim solution until an interchange could be built at I-25 and Vine Drive. The Modified Vine Alternative is preferred as an arterial street because it: ♦ Requires fewer purchases of homes than the current Master Street Plan DATE: August 3, 1999 5 ITEM NUMBER: 28 ♦ Allows the City to reclassify the existing Vine Drive and Lemay Avenue adjacent to the Alta Vista and Andersonville neighborhoods as local residential streets. As such, the neighborhoods can regain a residential atmosphere. ♦ Allows the City to replace the traffic light at Vine/Lemay with stop signs. Allows the City the opportunity to build sidewalks on those streets. Reduces traffic from greater than 10,000 vehicles a day to a few hundred. ♦ Allows the City to build an arterial that facilitates the construction of the Dry Creek channel to its south thereby creating a natural area buffer to the Alta Vista and Andersonville neighborhoods ♦ Allows the City to design and build an arterial capable of handling traffic demand in the Vine corridor through the year 2050 ♦ Allows the City to build an arterial that improves the traffic situation in northeast Fort Collins into the foreseeable future ♦ Has minimal other environmental impacts ♦ Avoids existing neighborhoods in northeast Fort Collins The Modified Vine Alternative is preferred should it become the alignment for Colorado Highway 14 because it: ♦ Has a cost estimate is only $5.9 million greater than the Modified Vine Alternative as an arterial street in Master Street Plan ♦ that make the new land uses compatible with the highway ♦ Significantly reduces truck traffic in downtown Fort Collins ♦ Allows the City/State to design and build a highway capable of handling traffic demand in the Vine corridor through the year 2050 ♦ Allows the City/State to build a highway that improves the traffic situation in northeast Fort Collins and in historic downtown into the foreseeable future ♦ Allows the City/State to build a highway that facilitates the construction of the Dry Creek channel to its south thereby creating a natural area buffer to the Alta Vista and Andersonville neighborhoods ♦ Adds no additional miles to the state highway system ♦ Eliminates rail/vehicle traffic conflicts ♦ Lowers basin wide air emissions ♦ Allows the City to regain control over Jefferson Street and Riverside Avenue, thereby allowing a redevelopment of the historic district from Jefferson Street to the Poudre River ♦ Relieves the neighborhoods adjacent to the current State Highway 14 (Riverside Avenue) where noise mitigation cannot be built or achieved in any way, from the impacts of the highway ♦ Provides noise and visual mitigation from the impacts of the highway for the surrounding land uses ♦ Allows for the construction of a northeast arterial (Vine Drive) with financial help from the State and Federal governments ♦ Is located in Fort Collins ♦ Avoids existing neighborhoods in northeast Fort Collins ♦ Was incorporated into the planning for the Mountain Vista Sub Area DATE: August 3, 1999 6 ITEM NUMBER: 28 The Modified Vine Alternative Route was recommended for Council's consideration by the Technical Advisory Committee, the Citizen Advisory Committee, the Transportation Board, the Planning and Zoning Board, City staff, and the consulting team. It is the only alternative route examined to achieve that level of support. The proposed resolution would reserve sufficient right-of-way for the relocation of Highway 14 along the Modified Vine Alternative Route and the establishment of that right-of-way as an alternative travel route, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Council and the availability of additional state and/or federal funding. RESOLUTION 99-100 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE MASTER STREET PLAN SO AS TO ESTABLISH A NEW CATEGORY OF STREETS KNOWN AS "ENHANCED MAJOR ARTERIAL STREETS"AND DESIGNATING A PORTION OF EAST VINE DRIVE AS AN ENHANCED MAJOR ARTERIAL WHEREAS, Colorado Highway 14 presently runs through downtown Fort Collins and diverts a considerable amount of interstate traffic through a portion of the downtown area which contains numerous historic buildings; and WHEREAS,the traffic utilizing Colorado Highway 14 includes a considerable number of heavy trucks, and such truck traffic through the downtown area causes congestion and substantial wear and tear on City streets and creates a barrier to the redevelopment of the Old Town area in conjunction with the Poudre River Corridor; and WHEREAS,for the foregoing reasons,the City Council has,for a number of years,tried to identify an alternative route for Colorado Highway 14 that would alleviate the foregoing problems; and WHEREAS, in 1997, the voters of the City approved Ordinance No. 31, 1997, which provided sales and use tax revenues to fund a number of capital projects, including the planning, design, right-of-way acquisition and/or other project costs associated with road improvements for an alternative truck route in the northeast quadrant of the City; and WHEREAS,City staff has undertaken,pursuant to previous appropriations,planning and an access control plan for an alternative truck route; and WHEREAS, funds have also been appropriated by the City Council to conduct additional planning, an environmental assessment, preliminary design, survey work and right-of-way acquisition for such route and for the possible relocation of Colorado Highway 14; and WHEREAS,studies regarding such an alternative route for Colorado Highway 14 have been provided to the City. City staff has conducted numerous public outreach meetings regarding the results and recommendations of the said studies, and the City Council has considered options for such an alternative route in several study sessions since the fall of 1998; and WHEREAS, in the judgment of the City Council, the most feasible alternative route for Colorado Highway 14 identified to date is the "Modified Vine Alternative", as shown on Exhibit "A"attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference; and WHEREAS,considerable uncertainty remains as to the desirability and advisability of using the Modified Vine Alternative to relocate the existing Colorado Highway 14; and WHEREAS, whether or not Colorado Highway 14 is relocated in that fashion, the City Council believes that the Modified Vine Alternative should at least be reserved for a future major arterial to accommodate other traffic that will be generated by new development in the northeast quadrant of the City; and WHEREAS,the City's Land Use Code requires that all new development in the City must provide for or accommodate the streets and transportation facilities identified on the City's Master Street Plan that are associated with the development plan; and WHEREAS, new development in the unincorporated areas of Larimer County could be required to accommodate the streets and transportation facilities identified on the City's Master Street Plan through an intergovernmental agreement between Larimer County and the City; and WHEREAS,the Master Street Plan presently identifies only collector streets, arterials, and major arterials; and WHEREAS,the right-of-way needed for an alternative route for Colorado Highway 14 would be considerably wider than the right of way needed for a major arterial; and WHEREAS,amending the Master Street Plan to add a category of"enhanced major arterial street,"with a designated width sufficient to accommodate a state highway, and further amending the Master Street Plan to designate the Modified Vine Alternative as such an enhanced major arterial street would preserve such route for utilization as either a major arterial, an alternative truck route and/or an alternative route for Colorado Highway 14,pending subsequent decisions as to which kind of route would be most appropriate at this location. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the Master Street Plan is hereby amended so as to include a new category of streets known as"enhanced major arterial streets,"with a right-of-way width requirement up to two hundred fifty one(251) feet, as more particularly described on Exhibit`B" which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 2. That said Master Street Plan is further hereby amended so as to show the proposed Modified Vine Alternative as a future enhanced major arterial street in order to accommodate either a major arterial, an alternative truck route and/or the possible relocation of Colorado Highway 14. Section 3. That the City Manager is hereby directed to negotiate with Larimer County a proposed intergovernmental agreement between the County and the City which would require new development in the County to accommodate the streets and transportation facilities shown on the Master Street Plan,and to submit such proposed agreement to the City Council for its consideration. Section 4. That,to the extent that adequate funding is appropriated by the City Council, the City Manager is further directed to continue such planning, design and right-of-way acquisition as may be necessary to allow for the possible construction of either a major arterial, an alternative truck route and/or the relocation of Colorado Highway 14 along the Modified Vine Alternative route. Passed and adopted at aregular meeting of the City Council held this 3th day of August,A.D. 1999. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk RESOLUTION 99-101 . OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE STRUCTURE PLAN MAP AND THE MOUNTAIN VISTA AREA SUB AREA PLAN REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENHANCED MAJOR ARTERIAL STREET ALONG A PORTION OF EAST VINE DRIVE WHEREAS,on August 3, 1999,the Council of the City of Fort Collins adopted Resolution 99-100 amending the Master Street Plan so as to establish a new designation of"enhanced major arterial street" and identifying such a future enhanced major arterial along a portion of East Vine Drive; and WHEREAS, by reason of the adoption of Resolution 99-100, Council has determined that the City Structure Plan Map and the Mountain Vista Area Sub Area Plan should also be amended to correspond to the Master Street Plan as amended pursuant to said Resolution 99-100; and WHEREAS,on the 3rd day of June, 1999,the Planning and Zoning Board recommended to the Council that the Structure Plan Map and the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan be amended to correspond to the said changes to the Master Street Plan; and WHEREAS, the Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City that the Structure Plan Map and Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan be so amended. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the Structure Plan Map of the City be, and hereby is,amended so as to appear as shown on Exhibit "A," attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 2. That the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan Framework Plan Map be,and hereby is,amended so as to appear as shown on Exhibit"B,"attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 3. That the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan Master Street Plan Map, be, and hereby is,amended so as to appear as shown on Exhibit"C,"attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 4. That the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan Proposed Structure Plan Map be, and hereby is,amended so as to appear as shown on Exhibit"D",attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 5. That Section 5.3.1 of the Mountain Vista Sub Area Plan be amended by the addition of a new subparagraph to read as shown on Exhibit"E," attached hereto and incorporated 40 herein by this reference. Section 6. That the Mountain Vista Subarea Plan be amended by the addition of a new Policy MV-T-1.4 to read as shown on Exhibit "F" attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 3rd day of August, A.D. 1999. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk INVI CAL npi 17111 10 F ...... � r'�f�.unun ur•..�a i 'ct1 F Ci 1�MOM ONE I..■. r- .,a� r\.0.��■yy7, Ita..itllll -•. 1, > r� �i�llllllll��g 1 nu•N � 1� pI11F1�,{�1 �o,�'Y '�►%j � .. {��y\il�i� ' �t4o : ��i` All��l7�'i !, ��7t9/C� f171� I/r�,��IL�I� J l %�i♦ ak Fai ' flDyyr'��+�l. ►t.�et. ;lI�Cl/� a._. JJ/lli . \�./ •.:7•l i MW Ew �_: 1.• �1 �. 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Exhibit F Policy MV-T-1.4: If East Vine Drive is designated as a State Highway, as is recommended by the Northeast Fort Collins Truck Route Project at the time of this writing,then the number of access points will be limited. The local street network will then be designed to direct traffic toward the relatively few access points located along this major transportation.corridor.