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Cap e ~f • CONSIDER DELETION OF SEGMENTS OF 167TH AVENUE FR011~I COLLECTOR ROADWAY PLAN By Steven Jankowski, City Engineer Background: The rationale for establishing the collector street system is to facilitate regional trips, and provide connections that feed from residential streets: The City transportation plan proposed such collector streets spaced at approximate one mile distances. Presently the City has developed 167"' Avenue as a collector street from TH 47 to Nowthen Boulevard and proposes the. extension of this collector roadway to Armstrong Boulevard. A1terlative east/west collector corridors available in this area include CR 63, which is located one mile to the north, and Alpine Drive, which is one. to one and a half miles to the south. of the proposed 167`'' Avenue corridor. The Plan for a collector street connection between Nowthen~Boulevard and Variolite Street was included in the 1980 City Comprehensive Plan City. The MSA designation of the segment between Anlistrong Boulevard and Variolite Street was added in 2003 and was placed in the 2004 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Recently the neighborhood along this proposed route of the 167`" Ave collector extension became aware of its designation as a result of discussion to rename the route with a unique name. Approximately 60 residents attended the Public Works Conunittee meeting • on September 18, 2007 at which the schedule for the construction of the collector street was an agenda topic. The action taken by the Committee was to recommend that only the east segment of the roadway from Limonite Street to Nowthen be constricted in 2008 and the remaining .two segments be delayed until 2011 and 2012, the final years of the five year CIP plan. The Public Work Conunittee meeting encouraged residents to attend a November 14, 2007 planning session to discuss the transportation section of the comprehensive plan. Approximately 40 residents from the area attended the plaiming meeting held on November 14"' and summarized their reasons for opposition to the collector street and presented a figure showing some alternatives to the 166`" Avenue Route. The residents presented the results of their neighborhood discussion on the subject to the City Council at a Work Session held on November 20, 2007. The Council directed staff to prepare a resolution for consideration at tonight's meeting removing the se~nents of the western extension of 167t" Avenue from the city's MSA system and collector street plan. - Observations:. The eastern section of 167`" Avenue between Limonite Street and Nowthen Boulevard is scheduled for construction next year in 2008 and will provide a safe alternative roadway to the existing four 90 degree turns on Jaspar Street which must be used by the existing neighborhood to the south and west and will be used by the new residents of the Brookfield subdivision. Residents in the area of these existing bends have expressed support for this project. The estimated cost of this road is $350,000 with funding to come • from the City's Municipal State Aid (MSA) construction account. Removal of this -373-