Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Transportation
CM/ ACM: John Cabrales, Jr.
Date: February 21, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, approving Amendment No. 1 to an interlocal cooperation agreement between the City of Denton and Denton County, Texas, regarding the construction of Metro Street and Improvements to Corbin Street, terminating the agreement; and providing an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
In 2006, Denton County identified $2.4 million to be applied to a proposed mobility enhancement project on the west side of Denton known as the Metro-Corbin Project. Funding was to be applied to engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of Metro Street on a new alignment as a two-lane undivided roadway from the Interstate 35 West service road west to Corbin Road. Additionally, Corbin Road was to be improved from a two-lane undivided highway north of its intersection with Metro Street to its intersection with FM 1515.
The project's total cost was to be $5 million of which $4.5 million was estimated for construction. On December 6, 2006, the City Council approved Ordinance 2006-350, entering into an interlocal agreement with Denton County stating that the County would provide $2.4 million and the City of Denton would contribute the remaining $2.6 million for the proposed project. After preliminary engineering was completed, the project estimate was revised to $6.5 million. Efforts to fund the additional estimated costs were unsuccessful, thus the Metro-Corbin project was not advanced.
In 2015, the Mobility Committee identified FM 1515 (Airport Road) as a priority project to address growth and development of the industrial area along Airport Road and Western Center Boulevard. The County indicated they would take the lead in advancing the enhancement of FM 1515, an on-system state roadway, and recommended $1.5 million of the funding originally programmed for Metro-Corbin be reprogrammed...
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