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ITEM NUMBER: 7
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: July 20, 199
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF:
Kathleen Reavis
SUBJECT:
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 108, 1999,Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue and Prior Year
Reserves in the Transportation Services Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of Appropriations to be
Used for the Design and Construction of Phase Three of the Harmony Road Bikeway Project.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Resolution 99-79 was unanimously adopted on July 6, 1999 authorizing the Mayor to enter into a
contract between the City and CDOT to prepare final design documents and construction of the third
phase of the Harmony Road bike lane project.
Ordinance No. 108, 1999, which was also unanimously adopted on First Reading on July 6, 1999,
appropriates the funds for the construction of the Harmony Road Bikeway Project.
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 14
DATE: July 6, 1999
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL
STAFF: Kathleen Reavis
SUBJECT:
Items Relating to the Design and Construction of Harmony Road Bike Lanes.
RECOMMENDATION: d -T
Staff recommends adoption os e Resolution ' the�dina ce'on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The total cost of this project is $456,485 for years 1999 and 2000. Over this two-year period,the j
City of Fort Collins will receive from CDOT $365,188 in Transportation Equity Act for the 21st ff
Century (TEA-21)funds for thet^flnrc hase ofthe Haimony'`Tload bikeway project. Transportation
Services has the local matchid funds required for 294totaCing$91,297 identified in the current
Transportation Planning budget ($10,29.7) and from prior year reserves in the Transportation
Services Fund ($81,000).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
A. Resolution 99-79 Authorizing the Mayor to Enter into a Contract with the Colorado
Department of Transportation fo -t esign=.and Construction of Harmony Road Bike
Lanes. r
B. First Reading of Ordinance N6. 1 09� 9§9,Appropriating-Unanticipated Revenue and Prior
Year Reserves in the Transportation Services Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of
Appropriations to be Used for the Design and Construction of Phase Three of the Harmony
Road Bikeway Project.
The attached contract between the City and CDOT will allow for work to proceed to prepare final
design documents and construction of the third phase of the Harmony Road bike lane project:
(1) Final construction plans for all remaining portions of the bikeway project
along Harmony Road from Boardwalk to County Road 7.
(2) Construction of a portion of remaining bike lanes from Boardwalk to County
Road 7. (Construction of any remaining bike lanes would be completed by
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additional grant funding in 2001 so that the Harmony Road bike lane project
would be fully complete by 2001).
BACKGROUND:
Transportation Planning retained the consultant team of HNTB Corporation and Drake and
Associates to plan and design facilities for bicycle transportation on Harmony Road between College
Avenue and I-25. Staff and the consultant team worked with a citizen's advisory committee on the
development of the Harmony Road Bicycle Project:Concept Plan which included the identification
of existing conditions and constraints, design alternatives, selection of preferred alternative, and
construction phasing plan for the Harmony Road corridor.
Staff, the consultant team, an the citizen's vi earn "Tr
collaboratively to develop
thepriorities for construction o a nume ous tints along : e Harmony Road corridor.
The evaluation criteria included:
(1) access to schools, employers, shopping, residential areas, etc.;
(2) connectivity to existing and/or planned bicycle facilities;
(3) safety; and
(4) funding availability/likelihood of development adjacent to the segment.
Based upon this process,the high'Es"t�priori e�egm75weWidentified to be:
1. Timberline to Countyoad 9, north s e - articl the 1/4 mile area in front of the
mobile home park.
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Status: The portion of bike lane from Timberline Road to Corbett Drive is complete and the portion
of bike lane from Corbett to County Road 9 will be completed as part of the Symbios Logic project.
2. County Road 9 to County Road 7, south side (across from Hewlett-Packard).
Status: The portion of bike lane from County Road 9 to Cambridge Drive will be completed as part
of the Celestica development. Thelportion of �ndge wiilpbe done as a future City/CDOT
project when sufficient fundsl e identified to then the bridge culvert and provide for major
roadway/structural improvements. ,
3. County Road 7 eastward to end of four-lane roadway section, south side.
Status: Bike lanes will be provided on both sides of Harmony Road from County Road 7 across I-25
as part of CDOT's improvements to the Harmony/1-25 interchange.
4. College Avenue (US287) to Boardwalk Drive and McMurray to Timberline
Status: Bike lanes were completed along both sides of these segments in 1998.
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1999 and 2000 Funding Details
• This additional funding for 1999 and 2000 will allow for finalized construction plans for all
remaining segments as well as construction of a portion of the remaining segments.
1999
$ 41,000 (Federal funding from TEA-21)
$ 10,297 (Local funding from City of Fort Collins)
$ 51,297 Total funding available in year 1999
These funds will be used to com e£ciconstruction p`offpf' reemaming portions along both sides
of Harmony Road, from Boar walk to ounty Road'
2000
$324,188 (Federal funding from TEA-21- confirmed)
$ 81,000 (Local funding from City of Fort Collins)
$405,188 Total funding available in year 2000
These funds will be used to construct as many remaining portions of the bike lanes as possible along
Harmony Road, from Boardwalk to County Road 7.
Total project funds for 1999 arir7 02 00 ;$456,485 7I 4
Grant funding to complete any temaining`segments of the project is slated for 2001. In addition,
staff is working to incorporate bike lanes with all new developments being proposed along the
Harmony Road corridor to leverage public and private dollars in order to provide a complete
bikeway system from College Avenue to I-25.
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