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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 02/06/2001 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 8, 2001, APPROPRIA AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 8 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: February 6, 2001 FROM: Matt Baker SUBJECT: Second Reading of Ordinance No. 8, 2001, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of Appropriations from the Street Oversizing Fund to the Capital Projects Fund for the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Arterial street improvements are planned for approximately one mile of Timberline Road, from Vermont Drive to approximately 2000 feet north of the intersection with Drake Road. Drake Road will be improved from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks on the west end of the project to approximately 1000 feet east of the intersection with Timberline Road. The project will construct full intersection improvements including auxiliary turn lanes. Ordinance No. 8, 2001, was unanimously adopted on First Reading on January 16, 2001. AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 13 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: January 16, 2001 STAFF: Matt Baker SUBJECT: First Reading of Ordinance No. 8, 2001, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of Appropriations from the Street Oversizing Fund to the Capital Projects Fund for the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption o C i ce o i t Reading FINANCIAL IMPACT: This Ordinance transfers $3,223,712 from the Street Oversizing Fund into the Capital Projects Fund to construct arterial n o ®rogra r T' erline and Drake Roadway Improvements. This project asfu s ailable. All of the funds will be appropriated from the Street EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Arterial street improvements are planned for approximately one mile of Timberline Road, from Vermont Drive to approximately 2000 feet north of the intersection with Drake Road. Drake Road will be improved from Un napxilia tr s the west end of the project to approximately 1000 feet ea of theTi erline Road. The project will construct full intersection imp veme try t lanes. BACKGROUND: Over the past two years staff has completed the design of the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements Project. This project is being constructed in conjunction with the Rigden Farm development and is fully funded by development through the Street Oversizing Program. The improvements will span on Timberline Road from Vermont Drive to 2000 feet north of the intersection and on Drake Road from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks east of the intersection 1000 feet. The project is planned to begin construction in the spring of 2001, with final completion and landscaping to be completed in the fall of 2001. The improvements to Timberline Road include widening Timberline Road to a four-lane arterial with landscaped medians. This widening will accommodate turn lanes at Custer Drive and DATE: January 16, 2001 2 ITEM NUMBER: 13 Sagebrush Drive, as well as entrances to future development on Timberline and to Sagebrush Drive on Drake Road. There will be double left turn lanes constructed with this project on all approaches to the intersection of Timberline and Drake. The improvements will include curb and gutter, 8 foot sidewalks, 8 foot bike lanes, colored concrete handicap access ramps, full length medians with plantings and hardscaping, asphalt and concrete paving with decorative crosswalks, and storm sewer and waterline installation. An important feature of this project is the effort to preserve the existing ash trees in the landscaped medians. The Pavement Management Program will take advantage of this construction project to complete some repair and maintenance work adjacent to the project. These improvements will be completed as part of the same cti tr ,, f ing of these repairs is already budgeted and appropriated. In order to take this project to to o ction ' spring, funding for the project must be appropriated into the Capital Project Fund.