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5. 1. <br /> Public Works Committee <br /> Meeting Date: 02/20/2024 <br /> Primary Strategic Plan Initiative: Connect the community through Parks,Trails and Recreational Programming. <br /> Title: <br /> Consider Trail Connection between Bowers Drive and Riverstone South <br /> Purpose/Background: <br /> Purpose: <br /> Consider construction of a public trail connecting Bowers Drive to the Riverstone South development as part of <br /> the 2024 Bowers Drive pavement overlay project. <br /> Background: <br /> The City's 2024 to 2033 Capital Improvement Plan includes project#21-STR-012, 2024 Neighborhood Pavement <br /> Overlays,which proposes pavement overlay improvements to various street segments in several neighborhoods <br /> including Bowers Drive. Attached is the CIP project sheet for reference. <br /> During project development Staff recalled previous City Council direction from their regular meeting on <br /> September 8,2020, when they reviewed the sketch plan for Riverstone South. During this meeting there was <br /> consensus among Council that the City should not pursue a paved connection between Bowers Drive and <br /> Riverstone South during the development process,but that the City maintain ownership of the outlots required to <br /> make a connection and should reconsider a paved connection when an opportunity presents itself to do so. <br /> Considering that a paving contractor will be on site in 2024, Staff wanted to take this opportunity to ask the <br /> Public Works Committee for direction on this subject. Attached is a copy of City Council case#11229, an <br /> attachment to that case showing the responses received from Bowers Drive residents to a survey asking whether <br /> they supported a public road connection(not a trail), and the approved meeting minutes. <br /> If a trail is to be constructed, Staff recommends a 10-foot wide bituminous trail able to support all necessary <br /> maintenance equipment. The length of the trail is estimated to be 760 feet,which would be constructed through <br /> two outlots and would connect Bowers Drive to the trail along the south side of Snowy Owl Street in Riverstone <br /> South. <br /> Attached is a copy of the Riverstone South plat,which shows Outlot F where the north half of the trail would be <br /> constructed. <br /> Also attached is a copy of the Pearson Place plat,which shows Outlot C where the south half of the trail would be <br /> constructed. <br /> Notification: <br /> N/A <br /> Time Frame/Observations/Alternatives: <br /> Timeframe: <br /> Staff anticipates up to 30 minutes will be required to present and discuss this case and respond to questions. <br /> Observations: <br /> Vegetation in the outlots where a paved trail can be constructed have not been proactively maintained by the City <br /> to date. The longer these outlots remain unimproved, the more costly it will become to construct improvements <br />