Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Transportation
CM/ ACM: Bryan Langley
Date: March 21, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider approval of a resolution authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, as Denton's authorized representative, to commit to fund, if selected, the applications for Active Transportation and Safe Routes to School projects through the North Central Texas Council of Governments; confirming intent to pay twenty percent of the total project cost (estimated at $500,000 for all three projects); and providing an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
In December 2016, the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) opened a Call for Projects under the Transportation Alternatives - Set Aside (TA-Set Aside) program. This program is funded through the current federal transportation funding bill, FAST Act: Fixing America's Surface Transportation. NCTCOG has $23.4 million to award to the North Central Texas region. The Call for Projects has two categories - Active Transportation, which is customary bike and pedestrian infrastructure; and Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS), which is infrastructure tied to making walking and biking to schools safer. This is a reimbursement program, with local sponsors being reimbursed 80% (local agency must fund at least 20%). Applications were due Friday, February 24 at 5 p.m.
Staff identified candidate projects that would meet the most scoring criteria, which includes points for regional connectivity, mobility, safety, equity, implementation of a local plan, local network connectivity, and project readiness, among others. For Active Transportation, staff recommends the Sycamore-Welch Bike/Ped Connection, which provides a more direct connection from the Downtown Denton Transit Center to the University of North Texas. It will also link to existing bike infrastructure on Hickory Street, Mulberry Street, and Eagle Drive. Staff is proposing a sidepath on Sycamore, and a road diet of Welch. Additionally, the project will coo...
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