Planning and Zoning Meeting - Regular Meeting

that's what i'm talking about i can see that man oh good morning board how many words yes but you know in everyone else's defense ours is much smaller it's a smaller area there so you can see it pretty well so good morning matthew miller with benchmark engineering give you a quick quarterly update of the work going on there yandel and old canton road intersection My updates gonna be very similar to most of what you're hearing on all the other projects in this area past month We will remind you this project includes two bridges there on the west side and one on the south side of that intersection It is an LPA project as well. So we're going through the LPA procedures with MDOT We have held our field review. We've got an environmental clearance at one time We were looking at maybe doing the bridges separately but timing standpoint everything's gonna be built together as one project and So we're working through that. Bridge design's 95% complete at this point. We've had our field review, and we have had our right-of-way kickoff meeting. Platts and Deeds are prepared, and the right-of-way consultants have begun the acquisition process. So we anticipate over the next, probably next month to two months, you'll be seeing some offers come through the board for approvals. We've got nine parcels there to acquire, and of course we cannot begin right-of-way utilities relocation until we get the right-of-way purchased. So started that conversation with the utility companies. We're in a little bit of a tricky situation there. They're not real open to relocating that little short segment between the, you know, we've got a group of guys coming from the west and a group of guys coming from the east. So a lot of coordination going on there between the corresponding engineering companies. That's going well. So we're going to continue doing that. Moving forward for the next quarter, we're going to continue with the acquisition process of the right-of-way and get these utilities moved. Just from a construction schedule standpoint, we're kind of at that mercy at the moment. I anticipate the first of the year, we should be prepared to move forward with that, but it will also depend on how the right-of-way or really the utility companies respond with the corresponding projects to our east and to our west. So everything's moving really well on the design side from our standpoint moving forward. And I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Show us where the two bridges are on that map. And you're thinking at this point to repair both at the same time?

Correct. Well, during the same project. The same project, not this area.

And how long do you think it'll take? The overall project? Well, yes.

I will say this is probably going to be an animal project, just

You just get back to Tim, but you're looking at this estimate nine months for both parts or for that one project. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Other questions? No, we'll have to, if we're going to go that route.

So Tim brought up a point. We'll go ahead and discuss this real quick. You know, the plan here from a traffic control standpoint is to route the guys, the traffic around the side roads there to the south. And if we do go that route, which that's the plan, we'll be shutting one bridge down at a time. That way we can reroute them around. Okay. Does that make sense? It makes sense.

It does. Other questions? Yep. Okay. Next project.

Not sure if y'all have been through Wheatley Street area. Probably try to stay away from it if you can. Yeah, I've been down there. Pretty nasty area. It's a nasty little project. But it's going well. We've kind of been split up into three phases, starting from the south down there near County Line Road and working our way towards Lake Harbor. Got through the first phase and just about to finish up the second phase. We're going to actually start paving tomorrow. If you've been through there lately, everything just, you know, it's been driveways and curb and gutter and sidewalking. know the ugly things but we fix to start putting some asphalt down tomorrow we'll finish that up and then we'll start working our way up towards lake harbor currently we're scheduled to complete this project in early october so my my goal would be to stand back before you the next quarterly report and either we've got a closed out project or we're working on a punch of this one or two

Yeah, I drive through there about once a week just looking, and you're right, there's a lot of activity going on in a short, small area.

It really is. You know, on a project like that, when you're dealing with an existing street, it's a lot of unknowns that you run into, and Hip Hill's done a good job with that project. So I've been real proud to work with those guys on it.

Okay, good deal. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Any questions? Thank you for the update.