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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-03-13 - Agendas - TentativeCity of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 City Council Agenda Session Tentative Agenda Tuesday, March 13, 2018 4:30 PM City Hall Room 326 City Council Members Adella Gray Ward I Sarah Marsh Ward I Mark Kinion Ward 2 Matthew Petty Ward 2 Justin Tennant Ward 3 Sarah Bunch Ward 3 John S. La Tour Ward 4 Kyle Smith Ward 4 ELECTED OFFICIALS: Mayor Lioneld Jordan City Attorney Kit Williams City Clerk Sondra Smith City Council Agenda Session City Council Agenda Session Tentative March 13, 2018 Agenda Call To Order Roll Call Pledge of Allegiance Mayor's Announcements, Proclamations and Recognitions City Council Meeting Presentations, Reports and Discussion Items: 1. 2018-0154 NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT 2. 2018-0155 HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD RESIDENT APPOINTMENT 3. 2018-0143 FAYETTEVILLE MOBILITY PLAN - FINAL REPORT PRESENTATION AND DRAFT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY Attachments: FAYETTEVILLE MOBILITY PLAN Agenda Additions A. Consent: A. 1 2018-0014 APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 6, 2018 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES A.2 2018-0145 MSI CONSULTING GROUP, LLC: A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF ANNUAL SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE FROM MSI CONSULTING GROUP, LLC FOR VIRTUAL JUSTICE SOFTWARE USED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY PROSECUTOR DIVISION IN THE AMOUNT OF $21,600.00 PLUS APPLICABLE TAXES, AND TO APPROVE A 5% PROJECT CONTINGENCY IN THE EVENT ADDITIONAL LICENSES ARE NEEDED Attachments: MSI CONSULTING GROUP, LLC City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 2 Printed on 3/7/2018 City Council Agenda Session City Council Agenda Session Tentative March 13, 2018 Agenda B. Unfinished Business: B.1 2018-0053 RZN 17-6034 (2468 N. CROSSOVER RD./JONES): AN ORDINANCE TO REZONE THAT PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN REZONING PETITION RZN 17-6034 FOR APPROXIMATELY 4.40 ACRES LOCATED AT 2468 NORTH CROSSOVER ROAD FROM RSF-2, RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY, 2 UNITS PER ACRE TO NS -L, NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES -LIMITED Attachments: RZN 17-6034 (2468 N. CROSSOVER RD./JONES) This ordinance was left on the first reading at the February 6, 2018 City Council meeting. This ordinance was left on the second reading at the February 20, 2018 City Council meeting. At the March 6, 2018 City Council meeting this ordinance was tabled to the March 20, 2018 City Council meeting. B.2 2018-0139 AMEND § 74.01 APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND § 74.01 APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS TO ADD A DEFINITION OF ROADWAY Attachments: AMEND § 74.01 This ordinance was left on the first reading at the March 6, 2018 City Council meeting. C. New Business: C.1 2018-0147 RZN 18-6086 (834 W. NORTH ST./PIERCE TRUST): AN ORDINANCE TO REZONE THAT PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN REZONING PETITION RZN 18-6086 FOR APPROXIMATELY 0.41 ACRES LOCATED AT 834 WEST NORTH STREET FROM R -O, RESIDENTIAL OFFICE TO RSF-24, RESIDENTIAL MULTI FAMILY, 24 UNITS PER ACRE Attachments: RZN 18-6086 (834 W. NORTH ST./PIERCE TRUST) City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 3 Printed on 3/7/2018 City Council Agenda Session City Council Agenda Session Tentative March 13, 2018 Agenda C.2 2018-0146 RZN 18-6092 (306 S. COLLEGE AVE./SOUTHERN BROS. CONST.) AN ORDINANCE TO REZONE THAT PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN REZONING PETITION RZN 18-6092 FOR APPROXIMATELY 0.23 ACRES LOCATED AT 306 SOUTH COLLEGE AVENUE FROM NC, NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION TO RSF-18, RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY, 18 UNITS PER ACRE Attachments: RZN 18-6092: (306 S. COLLEGE AVE./SOUTHERN BROS. CONST.) C.3 2018-0148 VAC 18-6097 (W. OF BEECHWOOD AVE. & 15TH ST./BARRETT DEV. GROUP): AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE VAC 18-6097 FOR PROPERTY LOCATED WEST OF BEECHWOOD AVENUE AND 15TH STREET TO VACATE A PORTION OF A UTILITY EASEMENT Attachments: VAC 18-6097: (W. OF BEECHWOOD AVE. & 15TH ST.BARRETT DEV. GROUP) C. 4 2018-0151 AMEND § 111.04 APPLICATION FOR PERMITS: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND § 111.04 APPLICATION FOR PERMITS IN CHAPTER 11 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Attachments: AMEND § 111.04 APPLICATION FOR PERMITS C.5 2018-0153 AMEND § 154.03 PRIVATE PARTIES/ZONING AMENDMENT (A) PETITION: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND § 154.03 PRIVATE PARTIES/ZONING AMENDMENT (A) PETITION Attachments: AMEND § 154.03 PRIVATE PARTIES/ZONING AMENDMENT (A) PETITION D. City Council Agenda Session Presentations: E. City Council Tour: F. Announcements: City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 4 Printed on 3/7/2018 City Council Agenda Session City Council Agenda Session Tentative Agenda G. Adjournment March 13, 2018 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Paye 5 Printed on 3/7/2018 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Text File File Number: 2018-0154 Agenda Date: 3/20/2018 Version: 1 In Control: City Council Meeting Agenda Number: 1. NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Status: Agenda Ready File Type: Report City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 3/7/2018 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Text File File Number: 2018-0155 Agenda Date: 3/20/2018 Version: 1 In Control: City Council Meeting Agenda Number: 2. HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD RESIDENT APPOINTMENT 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Status: Agenda Ready File Type: Report City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 3/7/2018 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Agenda Date: 3/20/2018 In Control: City Council Meeting Agenda Number: 3. Text File File Number: 2018-0143 Version: 1 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Status: Agenda Ready File Type: Presentation FAYETTEVILLE MOBILITY PLAN - FINAL REPORT PRESENTATION AND DRAFT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 3/7/2018 City of Fayetteville Staff Review Form 2018-0143 Legistar File ID 3/20/2018 City Council Meeting Date - Agenda Item Only N/A for Non -Agenda Item Chris Brown 3/2/2018 ENGINEERING (621) Submitted By Submitted Date Division / Department Action Recommendation: Fayetteville Mobility Plan — Final Report Presentation and Draft Implementation Strategy Budget Impact: n/a n/a Account Number n/a Project Number Budgeted Item? NA Does item have a cost? NA Budget Adjustment Attached? NA Fund Fayetteville Mobility Plan Project Title Current Budget $ - Funds Obligated $ Current Balance Item Cost Budget Adjustment Remaining Budget V20180209 Previous Ordinance or Resolution # 68-16 Original Contract Number: 15-08 Approval Date: Comments: CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE RAO,- ARKANSAS MEETING OF MARCH 20, 2018 TO: Mayor and City Council THRU: Don Marr, Chief of Staff Garner Stoll, Development Services Director FROM: Chris Brown, City Engineer DATE: February 26, 2018 CITY COUNCIL MEMO SUBJECT: Fayetteville Mobility Plan — Final Report Presentation and Draft Implementation Strategy BACKGROUND: In March 2016, the City entered into a contract with Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates in order to develop a transportation master plan and downtown/entertainment district parking and mobility report (Resolution 68-16). The project began with a thorough review of existing transportation data and current planning and policy documents to provide a basis of understanding of the current state of transportation in Fayetteville, as well as its challenges and opportunities. The collective key findings of these existing conditions analyses were summarized in the Fayetteville Existing Conditions Factbook published in the summer of 2016. The city and project team organized a series of community events, conventional workshops, and mobile pop-up workshops, each with its own distinct purpose and goals. The mobile pop-up workshops were held in neighborhoods throughout the city to attract people who do not typically attend conventional workshops. This extensive community participation shaped all aspects of the plan. DISCUSSION: The Final Report provides a brief overview of the state of transportation and mobility in the City (Chapters 1 & 3) and describes the public outreach process (Chapter 4) which led to the guiding goals and priorities of the plan (Chapter 2). Based on public input, staff direction, and critical analysis of our city, Chapter 5 details needs and opportunities for improvement across all modes: walking, biking, transit, driving, and parking. Chapter 5 contains several exhibits demonstrating gaps and deficiencies in our mobility network, each presenting an opportunity for improvement. The Final Report shifts from goals and qualitative analysis to implementation and site-specific examples in Chapters 6 and 7. As an alternative to the current master street plan, a Street Typologies map is proposed in Chapter 6, introducing a more context -sensitive approach to customizing street sections based on land use and pedestrian intensity. Each typology is paired with a cross-section intended to offer flexibility for street elements based on context. The Mailing Address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 Corridors Analysis of Chapter 7 focuses the previous goals and guidelines into seven example priority corridors, offering a detailed analysis and design for improvement. The approach used by Nelson\Nygaard on these seven corridors demonstrates the means and methods for analyzing other corridors in the future. The Report concludes with the City's "next steps" for comprehensive implementation of this mobility plan (Chapter 8). Specific project recommendations as well as broad policy and financial guidance is presented to aid the City in meaningful application. NEXT STEPS: An implementation strategy workshop is scheduled to occur in the days preceding the March 20th City Council meeting. Anticipated workshop outcomes would include a set of project selection metrics used for project prioritization for both the upcoming bond issue and future capital improvement plan (CIP) implementation. The workshop should determine how best to fold the recommendations of this plan into the City's overall CIP and budgeting process, including expanding project lists, and providing a qualitative evaluation of projects based upon selected performance measures from Chapter 2 of the plan. Other major implementation items may include: Y Finalizing street typologies and cross-sections in close coordination with City Plan 2040 and updating the Master Street Plan. Y Conducting a critical review of transportation -related city policies and codes for developments. Y Development of a traffic calming strategy and capital plan. Y Development of a multi-year outlook for street overlays and sidewalk construction programs. BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: On its own, this Mobility Plan has no direct, immediate fiscal impacts Attachments: Fayetteville Mobility Plan Final Report FINAL REPORT FAYETTEVILLE MOBILITY PLAN FAYETTEVILLE MOBILITY CONTENTS Introduction Vision, Goals, and Metrics.............................................2-1 Today's System.............................................................3-1 Public Outreach............................................................4-1 Needs & Opportunities.................................................5-1 StreetPlan...................................................................6-1 Corridors Analysis........................................................ 7-1 NextSteps...................................................................8-1 3 APPENDICES VOLUME I.- Appendix : Appendix A: Fayetteville Existing Conditions Factbook VOLUME II: Appendix B: Public Input Summary Appendix C: New Road Connections Evaluation Appendix D: Corridor Traffic Analysis rol Aso INTRODUCTION WHY A MOBILITY PLAN? Fayetteville is thriving. Consistently rated one of the best places in the country to live, retire, study, and do business in, Fayetteville continues to attract new residents and investors. The city's success, however, also creates problems: Traffic congestion is on the rise. There is an increasing demand for more walkable streets, safer bikeways, and more useful public transit. An unacceptable number of people are injured or killed on the city's streets every year. During peak hours, auto traffic has slowed, resulting in a transportation system that is capable of moving fewer people per peak hour, even as jobs and residents increase. Fayetteville's current success threatens its future. But given the constraints on the city's road network and the intrinsic inefficiencies of the car, conventional solutions will no longer work. INTRODUCTION THE SOLUTION Fayetteville can accommodate more people and jobs, but it lacks the street width necessary to accommodate more cars in many areas of the city. Even if the city were prepared to take more land to widen its roads, the "Law of Induced Demand" means that congestion would continue to increase (see "What Causes Congestion," below). Instead, Fayetteville must make its transportation system more efficient -- working to make walking, bicycling, and transit more convenient and pleasant -- and reduce the need to travel long distances for the needs of daily life. However, making the transportation system more efficient will require tradeoffs, and this report recommends strategies to guide those decisions. Investments in Fayetteville's multimodal transportation system to increase connectivity, coupled with programmatic strategies to encourage people to leave their cars at home, is the strategy for continued growth. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE Fayetteville consistently outcompetes most cities of its size, and nearly all cities in its region, in attracting jobs and talent. The base of its success is its extraordinary quality of life. To maintain and improve upon today's city while ensuring the city's future economic prosperity and quality of life, Fayetteville's civic leaders must pursue a strategic mobility plan that promotes growth and addresses the city's aging population, housing affordability concerns, social equity, and transportation system congestion. 1-2 Fayetteville Mobility Plan WHAT CAUSES CONGESTION? Congestion is best understood not as an infrastructure problem, but as an economic problem—a case of demand exceeding available supply. Congestion results from a strong, dynamic economy, where commerce is humming, workers are going to work, and people are spending discretionary income on things they enjoy. This is the Fayetteville of today. And what could the Fayetteville of tomorrow become? Traffic capacity itself can be thought of as a limited, renewable resource. Given the city's built form and its desire to create walkable, attractive streetscapes, there are few 4f* REDUCED CONGESTION CONGESTED INDUCES NEW DEMAND ROADWAYS ipk CONGESTION EXPANSION PROJECTS OR SHIFTS TO OTHER ROUTES INTRODUCTION opportunities for road widening. Even if the city were able to widen its congested streets, it would likely attract even more drivers through the law of "induced demand:' It is a vicious cycle leading to continued congestion and dampened growth opportunities. In a growing economy with this constraint, traffic congestion is inevitable. As traffic volumes increase, the vehicle throughput on a given street increases steadily until the street starts to reach capacity. At that point, throughput begins to decline rapidly to the point where there are so many cars that none can move. THROUGHPUT TY Fayetteville Mobility Plan 1-3 INTRODUCTION The only way to support a growing economy in a constrained environment is to increase the efficiency with which all transportation options operate. A city's transportation system can support a greater volume of travelers by absorbing trips across a diversity of modes. This means making investments in things like more frequent transit, a comfortable and inviting bicycling and walking environment, telework facilities and opportunities, deployment of managed lanes that provide improved transit access to key employment centers, and development focused around transit nodes (i.e., land use decisions). A small shift can make a big difference. Cars may be the most convenient form of transportation, but they're also the least space efficient, taking up about ten times as much road space to move a person compared to walking, biking, or transit. As the "Fundamental Diagram of Traffic Flow" has taught us for over 75 years, to make gridlocked streets flow again, we only need to remove about ten percent of vehicles.1 So the city doesn't need to get everyone out of their cars. It only needs to make walking, biking, and transit sufficiently attractive for about ten percent more people. This can be seen every year during school breaks when travel on Fayetteville's roadways is observably less congested. Ironically, the best way to make driving a reasonable choice for those who need to drive, is to make not -driving an attractive choice for those who don't need to drive. 1 The Fundamental Diagram of Traffic Flow was initially developed by Dr. B. D. Greenshields and presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board in 1933. For a rich history of thinking about congestion and highways, see "75 Years of the Fundamental Diagram for Traffic Flow Theory: Greenshields Symposium," Transportation Research Circular Number E -C149, June 2011. 1-4 Fayetteville Mobility Plan Figure 1 The Fundamental Diagram of Traffic Flow Shows a Small Decrease in Volume Result in a Big Improvement in Traffic Flow Fundamental diagram of traffic flow Fundamental equation of traffic flow: [ ❑ . �/ Source: Hendrik Ammoser, Fakultat Verkehrswissenschaften, Dresden, Germany V jkm/hj Vf a Q max free flow bound flow stray area _ 4_ ilcongestion d iQmax traffic density I ' bound flow congestion i free flow instable V stable V V [km/h] C flow velocity dQ %.nstable dC—V»O=Vf free flow stable f congestion low direction Qmax D [carskm] traffic density of = "free velocity" - maximum velocity on free lane, selectable by the driver depending on car, skill etc. VC = "critical velocity" with maximum traffic flux [about 70...100 km/h] Image source: Hendrik Ammoser image and translation. Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1675321 TRANSPORTATION IS AN INVESTMENT STRATEGY Traffic congestion is inevitable in a successful urban economy - perhaps the only American city that "solved" its congestion problem is Detroit because of contractions in population and jobs. More strategic investment in mobility is necessary to accommodate continued prosperity in Fayetteville. Transportation is also a critical investment for helping the city achieve its quality of life, environmental, and public health goals, and to ensure that all residents can enjoy the city's remarkable opportunities INTRODUCTION Fayetteville Mobility Plan 1-5 INTRODUCTION Emr- PLAN DEVELOPMENT The Fayetteville Mobility Plan (FMP) process, timeline, public feedback, and deliverables are documented on the project website at www.fayetteville-ar.gov/mobilitX. The project began with a thorough review of existing transportation data and current planning and policy documents to provide a basis of understanding of the current state of transportation in Fayetteville, as well as its challenges and opportunities. Transportation data from a variety of sources was organized and synthesized to create spatial and systemic contexts for the Plan. Additionally, previous and concurrent planning analyses were identified and summarized to reveal the policy framework within which the FM would coexist. After this introduction, Chapter 2 examines the city's existing policies and goals and provides recommendation for measuring how well its transportation investments align with the city's values. Chapter 3 summarizes the state of today's transportation system, drawing from the detailed findings in the Existing Conditions Factbook provided as Appendix A. Similarly, Chapter 4 summarizes the findings from the project's significant public outreach, including the community events, conventional workshops, and mobile pop-up workshops; more detail can be found in Appendix B. 1-6 Fayetteville Mobility Plan Chapter 5 then integrates the findings of Chapters 2-4 to identify and prioritize needs for all modes. Chapter 6 provides more specific guidance on how the overall street system could be organized to meet the goals in Chapter 2. Chapter 7 provides more detailed recommendations for redesigning seven street segments, along with analysis of the impacts of those changes; more detail on the transportation analysis can be found in Appendices C and D. Finally, Chapter 8 recommends next steps for the city, including tools for better aligning its budget with its values. INTRODUCTION Fayetteville Mobility Plan 1-7 INTRODUCTION Now TRANSPORTATION CONTEXT Fayetteville was originally laid out on a compact, gridded street pattern centered first around the town square. The town grid appears in Washington County's General Land Survey of 1831, with nine blocks at the crossroads of what are now Mount Comfort, Old Wire, Huntsville, and Cato Springs road S.2 Starting in the 1880s, Fayetteville also became the crossroads of several railroads, including the St. Louis & San Francisco and the Pacific & Great Eastern, which established depots at the edge of town at what is now Dickson Street. The city's two crossroads - rail and highway - resulted in today's pair of commercial centers at Downtown Square and Dickson Street. Through the middle of the 20th century, the city's development patterns grew outward from these two centers, maintaining a pattern of small, walkable blocks and a mix of commercial and residential uses, often with the latter stacked on top of the former. Like most American cities, however, Fayetteville's street and development patterns became more auto -oriented and less connected in the post -World War 11 era, with land use patterns based on the idea that residential, industrial, and commercial uses should be separated from one another. This post -War conventional development pattern continued in Fayetteville until a recent paradigm shift in thinking as the planning, engineering, economics and health professions began to recognize the unintended fiscal, social, and environmental impacts of sprawling, auto -oriented development patterns. 2 Fayetteville historic maps found at http://www.fayettevillehistory.com/maps/ 1-8 Fayetteville Mobility Plan The post-war conventional suburban development pattern presents a different and unique set of challenges for integrating active living with practical transportation solutions. The disconnected nature of low-density cul-de-sac developments do not necessarily warrant the considerable expenditure of constructing sidewalks along streets that do not lead anywhere. In these cases, opportunities for sidewalk and trail connections between adjacent cul-de-sacs or along utility easements may be more useful for providing neighborhood -level pedestrian or bicycle connectivity. These connections may be extremely desirable for non - driving residents that would benefit from access to nearby commercial centers, institutional uses such as schools, or transit stops that cannot be safely accessed from their primary entrances along high volume/high speed roadways. Fortunately, much of Fayetteville was developed in a traditional development pattern that easily lends itself to street retrofits that can improve connectivity for all forms of transportation. Many of these multimodal retrofits can take place in the existing roadway. For instance, sidewalk replacement and enlargement or road diets to calm traffic can free up right-of-way for other transportation modes like walking and bicycling. The core of the city is poised to greatly benefit from multimodal mobility infrastructure improvements that align with the prescribed future land use and density outlined in the City's Comprehensive Land Use Plan.