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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCIP 1987-01-08 Minutes Present: ITEM SIDEWALK REQUEST AT SMITHFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATAUGA ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY STARNES ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY HIGHTOWER DRIVE RIGHT-OF-WAY MINUTES FOR CIP MEETING JANUARY 8, 1987 Dan Echols Richard Davis Jim Ramsey ~ Rodger N. Line Dennis Horvath Gene Riddle Don Dietrich Richard Royston Lee Maness Richard Albin ./ r Mayor Mayor Pro Tern Councilman City Manager Assistant City Manager Director Public Works Assistant Director Public Works Director Planning Director Finance City Engineer DISCUSSION The Safety Committee for Smithfield Elementary School appeared before the CIP Committee requesting sidewalks on the east side of Smithfield Road. They stated that the cost would be approximately $10,000 to do this and that they would like to have the Council consider this. The CIP Committee stated that the staff would check out the details for putting a sidewalk at this location and report back and this would be an agenda item for the meeting of January 26, 1987. The staff report will be given to the Council before the regular agenda is sent out. The CIP Committee instructed the staff to keep working on the right-of-way for Watauga Road. If the right-of-way was not obtained by the Fall of 1987, then the staff was to put this before the Council for condemnation of all right-of-ways that we had not obtained for Watauga Road. The CIP Committee recommended that the following owners of property of the Starnes Road right-of- way be placed on the next Council agenda for , authorization of condemnation. These owners are B. R. Seale, W. H. Long, and Goode, Inc. (Henry Sutton). Dennis Horvath made a report that this owner's right-of-way should be in any day now. It was a matter of their attorney getting the document and check to the Cranes for their signature. The CIP Committee also instructed that when we construct this leg of Hightower Drive that we consider taking it all the way to the east boundary of the new box culvert on Hightower and to activate getting the additional right- of-way along Hightower. Gene ASSIGNMENT Gene Gene Gene ITEM OTHER PROJECTS: EXTENSION OF INDUSTRIAL PARK TO HOLIDAY LANE PARTICIPATION IN EXTENSION OF HOLIDAY LANE TO STARNES ROAD SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION NEEDS CONSIDERATION OF COUNTY RESURFACING PROJECT FOR 1987 DISCUSSION The CIP Committee instructed the staff to have the Planning and Zoning Commission make a recommendation to the Council on this matter and to recommend a change in the thoroughfare plan. The CIP Committee recommended that this be placed on the next Council agenda and recommended that the Council approve participation on Holiday Lane to Starnes Road on the east boundary of the new school site. The CIP Committee recommended that we proceed with engineering and construction of five signalized intersections within the city. It was recommended that the Council approve this project as soon as we have a cost estimate to do the project and as soon as several complications are cleared up on some of the intersections. The intersections recommended for signalization are: Starnes Road and Rufe Snow; Starnes Road and Smithfield Road; College Circle and Davis Blvd.; Lola and Holiday Lane; and, Smithfield and Chapman. The construction of the signal on Starnes and Rufe Snow will be held up until we get the City of Watauga to participate on this intersection. The signal at Starnes and Smithfield Road will be held up until Starnes Road is reconstructed in the near future. There are three intersections that probably can proceed at this time without any problems, and they are: Smithfield and Chapman; College Circle and Davis; and, Holiday and Lola. The CIP Committee recommended that we ask the County to resurface Hightower (from Rufe Snow to the west side of the new box culvert) on Hightower and Douglas Lane (from Hightower to Starnes Road). This is a budgeted item and does not require Council approval for the funding. A letter was to be drafted to the County Commissioner making this request. ASSIGNMENT Richard Royston Gene Gene Gene