HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY RIDGE - OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - 49-95 - CORRESPONDENCE - TRANSPORTATION ISSUEPlan which incorporates old Harmony Road into their proposed development projects. Any plan to realign and/or
keep all or a portion of old Harmony Road would have to be supported by a development plan acceptable to the City
and to the affected adjoining property owners. The plan would also have to include upgrading old Harmony Road to
current City street standards.
Old Harmony Road will remain as access to the Harmony Ridge P.U.D. property until that property redevelops or
until alternative access (Seneca Street) is provided. At that time, the City will consider vacation of the right-of-way
which is no longer necessary for public street purposes and retain whatever utility, drainage, and access easements
may be necessary for public purposes.
If the City wants to keep any portion of old Harmony Road for access to a trailhead, such access will need to be
coordinated with the development plans for the adjacent parcels. One option may be to vacate old Harmony Road
as a public street but retain it as a driveway access (easement) to the trailhead maintained by the City. Access to
the trailhead could also come through the Harmony Ridge P.U.D. local street system or off of Taft Hill Road.
The City currently has no project and no funds appropriated to remove old Harmony Road between Taft Hill Road
and new Harmony Road.
CC: CPES.TSHOEMAKER
From: Bob Blanchard
To: FCI.CPES(SOLT, TSHEPARD), FC1,ENG_NET(GDIEDE, MHER...
Date: 4/9/96 12:22pm
Subject: OLD HARMONY ROAD/NEW HARMONY ROAD -Reply
I thought we talked about when new Harmony is connected that we would vacate all of old Harmony - at least as our
first option???????? Second option would be to allow it to stay open as a second access to Harmony Ridge.
CC: FC1.CPES(TSHOEMAKER),
From: Kerrie Ashbeck
To: CPES. BBLANCHARD, TS.STR.ebracke, GDIEDE, MHERZIG, ...
Date: 4/9/96 11:39am
Subject: OLD HARMONY ROAD/NEW HARMONY ROAD
MEMORANDUM
Date: April 8, 1996
To:Mike Herzig, Development Engineering Manager
Gary Diede, TOP Group Leader
Bob Blanchard, Current Planning Director
Ted Shepard, Senior City Planner
Steve Olt, City Planner
Eric Bracke, Transportation Planner
cc:Tom Shoemaker, Natural Resources Director
From:Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer
RE:STATUS OF OLD HARMONY ROAD BETWEEN NEW HARMONY ROAD AND TAFT HILL ROAD
Please review the following summary of the conclusions from our meeting on March 28 regarding the City's position
on the status of old Harmony Road between Taft Hill Road and New Harmony Road. Let me know if there are any
changes or clarifications necessary or if your understanding of the issues, the City's position, or the statements
made is different from those summarized below.
When new Harmony Road is completed and connected to Taft Hill Road at the intersection with County Road 38E,
old Harmony Road will be closed at the intersection with Taft Hill Road. Old Harmony Road will remain open only to
the extent necessary to provide access to the adjoining undeveloped properties and existing land uses on the north
and south sides of old Harmony Road.
Seneca Street is planned to extend south of Harmony Road to serve the property to the south of old Harmony Road
(Harmony Ridge P.U.D.). Seneca is a collector street and will be signalized at Harmony Road in the future. The
intersection of Seneca and Harmony Road provides full turn movement access to both the Harmony Ridge P.U.D.
and the property to the north (convenience center site). Both properties also have frontage on and can take access
off of new Harmony Road. However, those access points are restricted to right-in/right-out by the median in
Harmony Road.
If the convenience center site on the north side of Harmony Road develops first, that property owner must dedicate
the r.o.w. and construct Seneca Street to the south property line to provide access to Harmony Road for the
Harmony Ridge P.U.D. at a full -turn movement intersection.
If the property on the south side of Harmony Road develops first per the proposed Harmony Ridge P.U.D.
preliminary plan, that property owner must obtain the off -site r.o.w. for and construct Seneca Street from Harmony
Road to the property. As a collector, the City will reimburse for any oversized portion of Seneca Street. Via repay
agreement, the developer could seek reimbursement for the off -site street construction. The repay would be due
when the property on the north side of old Harmony Road develops.
As noted previously, once new Harmony Road is complete to Taft Hill Road, old Harmony Road will become a local
street to access the existing adjoining land uses and the City has no other interest in keeping old Harmony Road in
its existing alignment as a public street. However, the adjacent property owners have the option to come up with a