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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-12-11 MinutesCity Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 1 of 12 Member Aldermen Mayor Dan Coody Ward 1 Position 1 - Robert Reynolds V10 Ward 2 Position 2— Kyle Cook CityAttorney Kit Williams � 1 Ward 3 Position 2—Robert Ferrell Ward 4 Position 2 - Lioneld Jordan City Clerk Sondra Smith ARKANSAS City of Fayetteville Arkansas City Council Street Committee Meeting Minutes December 11, 2006 A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council Street Committee was held on December 11, 2006 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 326 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. MEMBERS PRESENT: Alderman Lioneld Jordan, Chair; Alderman Kyle Cook, Alderman Robert Ferrell; Alderman Robert Reynolds Staff Present: Ron Petrie, Tim Conklin, Chris Brown 1. Call to order The meeting was called to order by Chairman Lioneld Jordan. 2. Approval of the minutes of the November 2, 2006 and December 5, 2006 Street Committee meetings. Alderman Cook moved that the minutes of the November 2, 2006 and December 5, 2006 Street Committee meetings be approved as distributed Alderman Ferrell seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. 3. Street Bond Program Update A. General update of the Street Bond Program Chris Brown gave a brief update on the status of projects in the Street Bond program. He said a notice to proceed on the engineering contract for the Washington/Willow project (Gregg Avenue and North Street intersection) with CEI was issued today (Dec. 11). They should be hitting the field surveys hard over the next few weeks. Staff is still waiting on the signed contract on the Cato Springs Road/Technology Corridor project. They had projected a procurement time into the first quarter of 2007 for this project and are a little ahead of schedule. The contract on the 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 2 of 12 Garland Avenue project has been signed and the notice to proceed has been issued. Field surveys will begin on this contract soon. The schematic plans for the intersection of Mt. Comfort Rd. and I540 have now been received and staff will begin reviewing them. They should be ready for the Committee to review at the January meeting. Staff has been meeting with Carter & Burgess regularly to discuss the various options regarding the Expressway Corridor. Staff will try to have some ideas to present to the Committee at the next meeting. The field surveys have been done on the Zion Road project and the preliminary design has begun. This is an in-house project and staff hopes to have the preliminary design completed by the end of January. Alderman Ferrell said he wasn't here at the last Council meeting and asked for an update on the College Avenue project. Ron Petrie said that the engineering contracts on this project were approved by the Council. In response to a question from Alderman Cook, Ron Petrie said a date hasn't been set yet to meet with the Wilson Park neighborhood. That meeting will be set up soon and we should have something to present next month. In response to a question from Alderman Reynolds, Chris Brown said the last projects on the bond list are AHTD projects and there is nothing to report on them. Progress on these projects will be monitored as they move forward. Ron Petrie said the City has been working on the intersection of 15th & Morningside. Staff is waiting for the poles to be delivered and plan to put the signal up at that intersection prior to the Highway Department doing the project. B. Discussion of property purchase on Adams Street for possible future improvements associated with the Gregg Street project. (This item was tabled at the November 2 Street Committee meeting) Ron Petrie said he doesn't have anything new to report on this. He reminded the Committee that these property owners contacted the City to offer us first right to purchase if we are interested. One property is located on Gregg Avenue and the other is at the corner of Adams and Frisco. Both properties were appraised approximately a year ago at $150,000 each. Information regarding lot sizes and buildings was presented to the Committee at the last meeting. He said he felt the response was fairly negative at the last meeting but Committee members had asked for additional time to think about it before voting. Alderman Cook said he still felt it was premature at this point to purchase property when we haven't settled on any design for the project. Alderman Jordan opened the floor for audience discussion. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 3 of 12 Glenn Sowder questioned why the purchase was even being considered. Alderman Jordan said initially there had been some discussion about the curve on which these properties are located but with the traffic calming that will be installed in the Wilson Park neighborhood he doesn't see much need for the additional property. Alderman Cook said at this point all we have is a line on the map for this project. If we had some sort of engineering design and had a better clue about the route, he might feel differently. Alderman Cook moved that the City not take up the option to purchase the properties at this time. Alderman Reynolds seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Discussion of ADM 06-2322 Garland Avenue ROW Dedication Variance, a resolution reducing the right-of-way dedication required from North Street centerline from 55 feet to 44 feet accommodating the existing structure and proposed development for property located at 1104 N. College Avenue. Ron Petrie passed out an aerial photograph showing the existing right-of-way on this property. He reminded the Committee that this was discussed at the last City Council. North Street is a principle arterial that would require a total of 110 ft. of right-of-way. The original recommendation from staff was for 44 ft. from center line, which would bring it up to the edge of the existing building. The applicant has requested that this be reduced even further and proposed that it be moved to the south. Adjacent to the property in question there only exists 32 feet of right-of-way. On the west side of College there is 65 ft. of right-of-way and a great deal of that is on the south side of North Street. He also gave the Committee the cross sections discussed at the City Council meeting and what you can get in the various right-of-way widths. In response to a question from Alderman Cook, Ron Petrie said if we want to widen the intersection at some point in the future we might want to acquire 10 feet of additional right-of- way on the north side of North Street on the Washington Regional side which would bring the existing sidewalk into the right-of-way. Ron Petrie said staff would like to establish which of the cross sections discussed would be acceptable to the Committee. At the last Council meeting it was discussed that we are willing to go up to 40 ft. with five lanes and 10 -ft. sidewalk. That is 80 ft. total right-of-way. You would need 15 additional feet on the west side which could be split with some on both the west and east sides. Alderman Jordan said he feels the intersections should line up. That would require coming to the south on the west side. Ron Petrie said you could go 10 feet to the north at the most or you could put it all on the south. He would recommend taking at least 5 feet off the north. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 4 of 12 Alderman Jordan opened the floor for public comment. Josh Pettit said he is potentially looking to put in a restaurant at this site. He agrees that at some point in the future North Street should line up and that there needs to be a turning lane. He is proposing 32 ft. (instead of 44 ft.) which would allow for the improvements, including sidewalks and greenspace. This would allow for a buffer zone between the building and the right-of-way. In response to a question from Alderman Reynolds, Ron Petrie explained that the "center line" can be interpreted in several ways. If you take 32 feet from the existing double yellow lines, that would be right at 10 ft. of additional right-of-way. Therefore, for this site, staff finds this acceptable. He said staff could sketch this out more definitely before the next Council meeting. Alderman Cook said we really just want a functional intersection at this location. Ron Petrie verified with Mr. Pettit that they both consider the "centerline" of the street to be the double yellow lines. Mr. Pettit agreed. Mr. Petrie also explained that everything will stay as it is until the City widens the street. Glenn Sowder said about 10 or 12 years ago the State highway department talked about running a State highway across the North Street hill to get the traffic off Lafayette. He asked if this was still being considered. Alderman Reynolds said he thought using North Street for any kind of construction is "dead in the water". Ron Petrie drew up a sketch of what has been discussed by the Committee assuming 32 feet from center line. He said a more precise drawing would be ready when this item is discussed by the Council. Alderman Cook moved that the Committee recommend accepting a reduction in right-of-way required to be dedicated from 55 ft. to 32 ft. from centerline on North Street. Alderman Ferrell seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. 5. Discussion of the offsite street improvements and street waiver requests associated with R-PZD 06-1884, Westside Villaee Ron Petrie said he had summarized the issues in memo form and he handed this out to the Committee to help facilitate the discussion. There are three street issues to be discussed in regard to this agenda item: offsite street improvements/assessments; a waiver of street design standards request; and a discussion of the parking lot drive aisle width. Alderman Jordan said he would like to know how everything was assessed on the Rupple Road widening. He said he recalled that in 2001 a contract was written up and the City received 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 5 of 12 $176,000 from Mr. Mellroy. He said $100,000 of that was put into the construction of the two- lane road we now have (Rupple). That left $76,000 on which the City has drawn interest and which is now around $90,000. Ron Petrie said that we have also collected additional letters of credit for Rupple Row so the total is up to $114,000. He said that does not count the $44,000 assessed to this particular development. Alderman Jordan said he understands that if that money is not spent on widening Rupple Road to a four lane road by a particular time we will lose it. Ron Petrie agreed that is correct. He said this is typical when you collect off-site assessments. He continued to review the informational memo he had distributed to the Committee. He said when we looked at the cost of widening Rupple Rd. for the Bond issue it was estimated at $1.708 million for a four -lane, not a boulevard. Every concept staff has provided to the Street Committee was for a four -lane. A boulevard would be an extra cost. He also stated that anything on the north side of Wedington is not included in that cost. In response to a question from Alderman Jordan, Ron Petrie said even if we build the intersection, we will still lose the money. The issue now is how much money we have and how much the Committee wants to spend and how it should be structured. Ron Petrie explained how they determined the projected cost for widening Rupple to a four -lane road along this frontage. He explained that the numbers used are the capacity of a principle arterial (20,600), a percentage based on projected traffic (7% in this case) and the road frontage (.33 in this case). The $1.708 million total cost times the amount of frontage gives the $577,000. In response to a question from Alderman Jordan, Tim Conklin said this street can handle more traffic than what is being generated by this one development so only a percent of the traffic figures into the assessment to this developer. Alderman Jordan said he isn't concerned much about this development but there are two issues with which he does have concerns. He wondered if the City might want to widen the road and use whatever money was necessary to complete the project for the future. He is concerned about losing the $114,000 if we don't do this by next year. Alderman Ferrell asked if there is money available in the funds set aside for right-of-way and cost shares to put with the $114,000 and complete the project. In response to a question from Alderman Jordan, Ron Petrie said according to the agreement the City has to do the entire section ($1.7 million) in order not to lose the money. Alderman Jordan opened the floor for public comment. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 6 of 12 Richard Alexander said as he understands the agreement (which his company inherited when they purchased the land from Mr. McIlroy), Mr. McIlroy paid $100,000 in cash toward the road and posted another $100,000 letter of credit. That letter of credit is now in his company's name and they assumed that obligation. In addition to that, when they brought this project through the Planning Commission it was specifically requested that they go back and add some commercial to the development. He said they agreed to that and went back to redesign the road. City staff came up with the figure of $44,000 as an assessment for the commercial part of the development. He said they do not object to that. As part consideration for that dedication of right-of-way and the agreement to build the road, Mr. McIlroy also gave the right-of-way and agreed to sell to the City the land on which the Boys and Girls Club was ultimately built. So the true economic cost to this particular parcel is well in excess of the $44,000 they are being assessed for the commercial portion of the project. As the developer, he said he would love to see the four -lane get built. He just wants the Committee to know how much money has already been paid by the developers for the widening of Rupple Rd. He said the position of the developer is that they would like to not have their project held up indefinitely. Alderman Jordan said he wants the developer and everyone to know that he does not have any problem with this project. Tom Terminella said his company is developing the Mountain Ranch project at the end of this road. He is concerned that in the conditions of approval he feels staff has used a "theory" instead of working off the Unified Development Code and creating a cost share. He said he wants these developers to build and develop and create good quality development on the west side of town. But he said the section of Rupple just built, a four -lane with a turn lane and islands was built according to the Master Street Plan. The City cost shared that and found the money. He said that Clabber Creek phase two and phase three were built to five -lanes, cost shared with the City and the money was found in order to construct those improvements. He said with this half mile section from Persimmon to Wedington there is extreme density and intense development occurring, the right-of-way is there, utilities are out of the way. His question is if the road doesn't get built now, when will it be built. He also questioned why there was no assessment to the development of the bank on the intersection of Rupple and Wedington. Alderman Jordan said it was his understanding that the frontage of the bank is on Wedington instead of on Rupple Road. Ron Petrie said generally if you build on an existing five -lane road, there is no assessment. If you build where there is no road, the assessment is typically more. Tom Terminella read from Resolution 134-01 which says, "WHM Land Investments, Inc. has agreed to pay $176,724.75 towards its share of this four -lane road if necessary..." He then read from the traffic study generated in April 2005. He believes that based on this traffic study there is not a question of whether or not it is necessary. He continued to talk about his concerns and 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 7 of 12 said that if it is not the responsibility of this development to get these improvements done, then it is certainly the City's responsibility to construct the improvement so we can have normal traffic flow. Alderman Jordan said there is nobody in this room who wants that section of road built any more than he does. However, there is a certain amount of money available and it is earmarked for the projects listed on the bond program. He said he understands Mr. Terminella's frustration but the Rupple Road part does not affect Mr. Alexander and Mr. Nock at this time. That is something that either needs to be done by the City or not. He doesn't think all this can be worked out tonight and until more research can be done, he cannot give an answer to Mr. Terminella at this time. Alderman Cook said he feels that Mr. Terminella makes a good point but he feels that discussion involves more than Westside Village. Alderman Jordan said there will be another Street Committee meeting in about a month and we can discuss the issue of Rupple Road at that time. John Nock said that the land is currently zoned RSF-24 which would by right allow the developer 504 units. The current proposal is for 352 units. He said the Committee should also know that they are planning to build approximately 90 units in phase one. They estimate that each phase will take about 24 months. He doesn't expect the sixth and last phase to be built anywhere in the first four or five years. He said his group has always promoted Rupple as a four - lane road. In fact they designed the east side of the road to be even more than a four -lane and with the ability to put in a median. They have always assumed that the City would come forward and put the four -lane in as it is allowed by contract. In response to a question from Alderman Reynolds, Ron Petrie said the contract doesn't mention Persimmon Street. The contract refers to Rupple Road and the only part of Rupple that existed at the time of the contract was from Persimmon to Wedington. Persimmon was just a line on a map at that time. Tim Conklin said the agreement was associated with a preliminary and final plat for WHM Investments subdivision in order to create Tract 5 to build the road and parking lots. He said his memory is that the $100,000 went to the two-lane road. That was not refundable regardless of whether the road was four -lanes or two -lanes. The letter of credit then was based on the formula. He said a preliminary plat was done and then when Mr. McIlroy came back for a final plat he was in disagreement with the conditions of the preliminary plat. That's why this agreement was put together in order to move forward with the Reynolds Foundation grant to build the Boys and Girls Club and provide access. He said he feels it is unique to have an $11 million Boys & Girls Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas. There was an opportunity and the Council was presented with this agreement. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 8 of 12 Alderman Ferrell said he feels this is a pay -me -now or pay -me -later situation. We have to have the road. We want safe streets and to be able to get the traffic where it needs to be. He agrees that Kit needs to look at this but he doesn't think it is a question of "if' but of "when". Tom Terminella further read from the summary of the traffic study he quoted earlier. "These proposed roadway improvements are consistent with the City of Fayetteville's Master Street Plan standard for minor arterial streets. The needed roadway improvements are a result of trips generated by the development together with other planned developments in the immediate vicinity. As part of the roadway improvements herein as identified necessary for the intersection of Wedington Drive and Rupple Road the existing traffic signal will require reconstruction. Roadway improvements and traffic signal modifications at the intersection of Wedington Drive and Rupple Road must conform to AHTD and City of Fayetteville standards and will require the approval of them both. Roadway improvements to the other studied intersections along Rupple Road in the vicinity of the site must conform to City of Fayetteville standards and will require approval by the City." He urged staff and Committee to look at this study. He said Ernie Peters is probably the foremost traffic study person in the State and this study calls for a five -lane section on those intersections and for an improvement to the Wedington intersection. He just wanted to make this part of the public record. Alderman Jordan thanked Mr. Terminella for his comments and assured him the Committee would discuss this again. As far as who pays what and where, etc. this is one of the reasons he had thought of impact fees. However, that's a discussion for another day. Waiver of Street Design Standards Ron Petrie explained that the minimum curb return requirement in our City Code for any public street is 30 feet. For existing commercial driveways the requirement is 25 feet. In this instance staff is recommending a 20 ft. curb return. He distributed information regarding standard curb radius returns for different design vehicles, such as passenger vehicle or single unit (for example a trash truck) based on vehicles traveling 10 mph or less. He explained staff's method of reaching the recommendation of a 20 ft. minimum curb return based on a calculation that would take into account the minimum turning radius of about 28.4 ft. (inside) or 42 ft. (outside) for a trash truck. For this project staff is proposing 23 ft. wide streets and a 20 ft. turning radius for a total of 43 ft. This would ensure that a trash truck could make the turn without going up on the sidewalk. Todd Jacobs, applicant's representative, made a presentation to the Committee. He said the Westside Village project is designed with new urbanism in mind. He explained that studies have been done that say that tightening up the radius on a street design slows down traffic and increases walkability. The developer is trying to pinch these intersections with this in mind. He said the trash trucks, while they may have to turn into the outside lane to make the turns, will be only traveling these streets once a week and then early in the morning. Emergency vehicles will have no problems getting through. He said that some of the areas in the downtown historic 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 9 of 12 district have a radius of only 8 ft. He said in the commercial portion of this development there will be coffee shops, pizzerias, an ice cream shop, etc. He believes they (the developers) have a stewardship responsibility for the future with the boys & girls club and an elementary school and they want this to be a real neighborhood. The petitioners presented a brief PowerPoint presentation comparing traditional developments to their concept for Westside Village, using examples of what has done in other areas in the country. They also showed slides of the proposed development, street connections, stub outs, etc. John Nock said that he believes Ron Petrie's recommendation is not unreasonable. They had requested a 15 ft. radius in order to bring the pedestrians, not just the cars, back in to ownership of the street. They wanted to show the Committee their proposal at 15 ft. but understand that 20 ft. does work, just not was cleanly as they would want. Alderman Reynolds asked if this proposal had been reviewed by the Fire Department and was told that it had. He said that although a pumper truck might not have problems, a ladder truck might. He also mentioned the different sizes of trash trucks. Todd Jacobs said there had been four or five meetings with the Fire Department, walking through the project with them. They have also had many meetings with the Solid Waste division. Both departments are fine with the 15 ft. radius proposal. In response to a question from Alderman Jordan, Tim Conklin gave his input from a planning perspective. He said he had been talking with engineering and the operations director and he agrees with Ron Petrie with regard to the 20 ft. recommendation. Alderman Cook said he agrees with what Mr. Nock is trying to do and he supports the traditional neighborhood design. He thinks staff's recommendation of 20 ft. is a reasonable compromise in this situation. Alderman Cook moved that staff's recommendation of a 20 ft. minimum CRR be approved. Alderman Reynolds seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Alderman Jordan opened discussion of item #2 in the memo regarding the applicant's request that on -street parallel parking be permitted on the public streets of this development. Engineering and planning staff is in favor of this request providing that Public Drive #2 is a private drive/parking lot. Ron Petrie pointed out which are the public drives on a map of the development. He said there is a lot of parallel parking and staff supports that. He said that if the area were surrounding by commercial development, this would have a good public use. But being surrounded by residential development, with the commercial development in another area, it becomes a parking lot for the people who live in the units. It is something that concerns staff though it is not 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 10 of 12 uncommon with TND. There is also a bioswale in the middle that will have to maintained by the City. He said staff is very much in favor of using this technology but is concerned with maintenance. John Nock said they tried to create a number of private parking spaces and private parking courtyards flanked by trees or buildings, tucking the parking behind. But what led them to proposing this public parking is the fact that they believe the northern section will be developed in the next five or ten years and will probably be commercial. They believe you have to look beyond what they are going to do in the next 24 months and look at the next 60 months. If this is just a privately maintained parking lot you lose another opportunity to have another connection. He agrees that a good bit will be for residential but they have connected the east west corridor for a pedestrian greenway so they are trying to promote pedestrian points of access as well as parking along the street. He said he believes that diagonal parking makes better sense here. If they had been proposing parallel parking, he believes there wouldn't be a problem. But by proposing diagonal parking, similar to the downtown square, it has become a debate. He doesn't believe this is inconsistent with downtown Fayetteville and it looks forward to the future. Alderman Reynolds asked how much of the entire development would be under City maintenance. John Nock said the main Meadowlands Drive would be public and they are also proposing one other road (which he pointed out) which has a connection to the north. They are proposing a boulevard with a bioswale down the middle which would also be public. In total there would be three north/south and one east/west street. Alderman Jordan said he believes the concern isn't what Mr. Nock and his group are proposing but the maintenance of the bioswale. John Nock asked if it would be better to put the bioswale under the POA to remove that issue. Alderman Jordan said he personally likes the idea of the bioswale but has an issue with the City maintaining it. If it could be put into the POA for their maintenance, he wouldn't have an issue. John Nock said he felt that would be fair. Alderman Cook said he supports the idea that this should stay a public street though it will add some additional maintenance cost to the City. He also likes the idea of the bioswale but doesn't want that maintenance to fall to the City. Tim Conklin wanted to clarify that all the parking spaces would be constructed to City street standards. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 11 of 12 John Nock said he would leave it up to the engineers as to how it would be done. Todd Jacobs said the parking spaces will be built to city street standards. John Nock said he understands that any time they build anything that is going to be turned into a public use that it has to meet the City's standards. Alderman Jordan said he believes this will be a nice addition and it will discourage straight through traffic. Alderman Cook moved that off street parallel parking be accepted, that public drive #2 remain a public drive but that the bioswale be maintained by the POA and not by the City. Alderman Ferrell seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Alderman Jordan began discussion of the last street issue as regards this development. City Code requires a street/driveway width to be a minimum width of 24 ft. for two-way traffic and 12 ft. for one-way traffic. The applicant requests various widths of 22 ft., 23 ft. and 25 ft. Staff recommends that a standard width of 24 ft. be utilized for all driveways, drive aisles, public streets and private streets where two-way traffic is proposed. Ron Petrie said so many different widths leads to a lot of confusion. Staff had recommended 24 ft. widths. He is okay with 23 ft. since we have agreed on the 20 ft. curb returns. Alderman Jordan asked if 23 ft. would work for everyone. John Nock said that it would work for them. Alderman Cook moved that 23 ft. minimum width be approved for all driveways, drive aisles, public streets and private streets in this development where two-way traffic is proposed. Alderman Ferrell seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. John Nock asked how to address the situation if there is some requirement made by the utility companies for the extra foot of width. He agrees with staff that one set of numbers is best but if one of the utility companies disagrees, he would like to know how to get that approved. Tim Conklin said staff is trying to develop some standards for traditional neighborhood development so we don't end up with all the different cross sections. He has been charged with trying to put something together to bring forward. John Nock said they will go forward with the 23 ft. widths. If there is a problem with the utility companies, they will bring it back for further discussion. 6. Presentation of the results of the 2006 traffic calming requests. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org City Council Street Committee Minutes December 11, 2006 Page 12 of 12 Ron Petrie said the total number of traffic calming requests received is forty three. He said a year ago some significant changes were made to our policy to make it easier to begin these studies. He said that 6000 vehicles per day is the maximum volume of traffic allowed for traffic calming measures to be taken. Of the forty three requests, only four met the 60 point criteria as set forth in the policy. Staff recommends that they move forward on these four requests and install traffic calming using in-house labor. One of the requests was for Rolling Hills Drive. Although the traffic count on this street was 8,500 which exceeds the maximum volume in our policy, staff is recommending that traffic calming be installed on this street. He asked for any input from the Committee. He said he will be sending these results out to the people who made the forty- three requests and feels the Committee may receive some phone calls. Alderman Cook said he understood staff is using the criteria set forth in the BWR report. He said he has some issues with those criteria personally. He would like to have the Street Committee review the criteria and maybe entertain the idea of changing some of the priorities. He doesn't fully agree with the way they are set up. Alderman Ferrell said he understands what Alderman Cook is saying but knows there has to be a cut off point somewhere. He wondered if there is any way to do something up front as opposed to having to remediate later. Ron Petrie said that designs similar to what we just reviewed with narrower roads, parallel parking, etc. help with traffic calming. Also, in some of the typical subdivisions we're requiring developers to install traffic calming devices while they are building the streets. It was agreed that the Committee should review the standards in the future. In response to a question from Alderman Cook, Ron Petrie said the money to do these projects will be absorbed in the Transportation operating budget by using in-house crews to do the work. 7. Sehedulina of the next Street Committee Meetine. The next meeting of the Street Committee will be determined at a later date by the Street Committee Chair and City staff. 113 West Mountain 72701 (479) 521-7700 (479) 575-8257 (Fax) accessfayetteville.org