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C 2005 Steet Imp Update CITY OF CHANHASSEN 7700 Market Boulevard PO Box 147 Chanhassen, MN55317 Administration Phone: 952.227.1100 Fax 952.2271110 Building Inspections Phone: 952.227.11BO Fax: 952.227.1190 Engineering Phone: 952227.1160 Fax: 952.227.1170 Finance Phone 9522271140 Fax: 952227.1110 ParkA Recreation Phone 952.2271120 Fax 9522271110 Recreation Center 2310 Couller Boulevard Phone: 952.2271400 Fax 9522271404 Planning A Natural Resources Phone: 9522271130 Fax: 952227.1110 Public Works 1591 Park Road Phone: 9522271300 Fax 952227.1310 Senior Center Phone 9522271125 Fax: 952227.1110 Web Site www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us ¡ (! ! I - MEMORANDUM TO: Todd Gerhardt, City Manager FROM: ? (J. v Paul Oehme, City EngineerIDir. of Public Works DATE: December 7,2004 o~" SUBJ: Update on 2005 Street Improvement Project No. 05-01 DISCUSSION On November 22, 2004, staff presented Council with the preliminary finding of the 2005 Street Improvements. At the meeting, staff discussed the scope of next year's project, assessment amounts and why the project was proposed. As a review, the proposed project areas include: Pioneer Trail Area Foxford Road, Eastwood Court, Meadowlark Lane, Deerbrook Drive, Homestead Lane, Flintlock Trail, and Pineview Court. The improvements in this area generally include an edge mill, crack repair, and a full IS' overlay of the entire street width. The proposed per lot assessment rates for the 2.5 acre lots in this area range from approximately $1,800 to $2,400. The costs generally vary depending on the amount of pavement distress repairs estimated. Staff compared the cost of pavement repairs with edge milling and overlaying to milling full depth milling the street and paving 3.5" of new bituminous. The full depth mill would be more costly vs. the repair, edge mill and overlay. The pavement life would be generally the same because we would anticipate needing another mill and overlay of the street between 15 and 20 years no matter which option is used. This area will be in the 2020 MUSA area and could receive utility service at that time. The streets are currently rural section with drainage ditches and no curb. In the future, this area may choose to extend services to their property at which time the City may look at an urbanized roadway section. Citv Hall Area Chan View and Market Boulevard are the only public streets in this area that improvements are proposed on. The western City Hall parking lots and the Fire Station #1 parking lot along with Chan View and Market Boulevard are proposed to be milled and overlaid. The Fire Station is proposed to have an 8" thick concrete driveway added to better handle axle loads of vehicles at this station. In addition, storm sewer improvements within the City Hall parking lots will connect with the existing storm sewer in Market Boulevard. The City of Chanhassen· A growing community with clean lakes, quality schools, a charming downtown, thriving businesses, winding trails, and beautiful parKs. A great place to live, work, and play . Todd Gerhardt December 7, 2004 Page 2 Lake Lucv Road This project area includes Lake Lucy Road from Galpin Boulevard to Powers Boulevard, Steller Court and Charing Bend. The proposed improvements include narrowing Lake Lucy Road to 32 feet wide, edge milling and overlaying all streets, installing concrete curb and gutter along all streets, adding an off-street trail along Lake Lucy Road, and extending public sanitary sewer and water to parcels along Lake Lucy Road and Steller Court that do not currently have city services. Currently, Lake Lucy Road is 36-feet wide with no on-street parking and is prone to speeding. As part of the project, the road will be narrowed in an attempt to calm the traffic. While the road will still have no on-street parking, temporary lifting of the restriction for an annual Christmas display could be considered. Also, Lake Lucy Road has only on-street biking with no sidewalk. This is the only collector street in the City that has an on-street bike path. The project will include the construction of a 10-foot wide bituminous path in back of the curb on one side of the street. The assessments for Lake Lucy Road are based on a residential roadway equivalency calculation. Staff estimated the assessments based on what cost properties along Lake Lucy would expect if this were a residential roadway instead of a collector roadway. The City is proposing to pay for the narrowing of the roadway, the trail improvements and the oversizing of the roadway from a residential street to a collector roadway. The properties that access the roads proposed to be improved would be assessed 40% of the improvements for a residential roadway and new concrete curb and gutter. The properties on Charing Bend currently have concrete curb and gutter so their assessment is proposed to be adjusted based on only curb repairs. The proposed assessments for this area are broken into sewer and water. The project is very costly due the large amount of pipe to be installed to service the large lots. At this time, only 18 lots are proposed to be serviced with sewer and 13 lots with water. On December 1, 2004, staff held an open house with the residents to discuss the proposed improvements. In general, staff received good feedback from the property owners for the improvements. In the Pioneer Trail area, comments received were mainly related to the assessment amounts and assessment practice the City uses. We received some drainage problem complaints that we are investigating and will try to incorporate into the project if appropriate. We also G:\ENG\pubUClOS-Ol\l20704 conel bg.iliK: , · · · · , · i: ! ~ , ! , I Todd Gerhardt December 7, 2004 Page 3 I . , , ~ i I I ! received some comments on the short cul-de-sac radius. We will look at increasing the radius in the project. Lake Lucy Road street improvement comments were mainly regarding assessing properties on a collector street. Several property owners thought the City should pay for all of the improvements. The property owners proposed for service extensions are still deciding if they would like sewer and water extended to their property. The estimated assessment for sewer service per property is $28,111.61. The estimated assessment for water service to Steller Court is $8,694. The City has sent out a ballot to identify which property owners are interested in obtaining City services at this time. We also balloted the large lot properties to see if they are interested in rezoning their development from Large Lot Residential to Single Family Low Density. The ballots are due back on December 17, 2004. Staff has received feedback that some property owners will want services and others we know will not. The City has several options if not all the properties request utilities. Option 1 - Extend service to only the properties that request the service. This option would make it more expensive for the property owners that requested the service because the cost would be assessed to only the properties that requested the service. Option 2 - Extend services to all the properties if they requested the service or not. Staff feels this option would be strongly opposed by the property owners that do not want the service because of the large assessments associated with the improvements. Option 3 - Extend service to the property owners that requested the service and defer the assessments with interest to the properties that have not requested the City services at this time. This option would not be consider unless there are only a few properties that would not request the service at this time. A discussion with the City Attorney would be necessary before proceeding with this option. G:\ENG\pubLICIJS-Ol\120704 conel bg.doc