Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
CM/ ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: August 9, 2016
SUBJECT
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Receive a report, hold a discussion and provide staff with direction concerning the extension of Ruddell Street at Mingo Road and a potential joint stormwater project with the Meadow Oaks development.
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BACKGROUND
The purpose of this item is to update the Council on the project status and preliminary alignment prior to holding community meetings, advise the Council of a potential joint stormwater project with the Meadow Oaks development, and obtain any direction or suggestions the Council might have at this time.
The Extension of Ruddell Street at Mingo Road is a project in Proposition No. 1, Street Improvements of the 2014 Bond Program, which was approved by City voter referendum on November 4, 2014. The project involves an extension of the existing Ruddell Street from just north of Mingo Road, southerly and southwesterly to connect to the existing Ruddell Street, lying south of Mingo Road, near its intersection with Texas Street (see Exhibit 1).
This project was deemed a high priority roadway project by the Streets Subcommittee of the Citizens Bond Committee and by the Bond Committee, due to two relatively unsafe entrances that currently exist to the City's Service Center (housing Water, Wastewater, Streets, Drainage, Parks & Recreation, and Traffic Operations, Materials Management (Purchasing and Distribution Center), Engineering, DME Communications and Fleet Maintenance). The westerly entrance is a circuitous route through a residential neighborhood along Frame, Paisley and Rose Streets. The northerly entrance is from Mingo Road to Willis Street across a fairly short and steep railroad crossing that is dangerous for low semi-trucks which have caught their undercarriages on the railroad crossing. The new alignment will provide a primary entrance from Mingo Road, with a much safer railroad crossing and avoiding neighborhoods.
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