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North Sawmill Drive Extension. Recommendation to City Council to Fund for 2019.
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SUBMITTED BY: Paul Nylund - Interim Director, Community Development
FISCAL NOTES:
Expenditure Required: $500,000 est.
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Funding Source: CIP fund
RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a recommendation to City Council in favor of funding the North Sawmill Drive extension to the intersection of Atigun Dr and Salcha Way, for 2019.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
In 2002 the City of Valdez did considerable improvements to the Mineral Creek Loop water system, and this included the addition of a 12" water main within the platted right-of-way that connects N. Sawmill Dr. to the intersection of Salcha Way and Atigun Dr. The northern most portion of the N. Sawmill right of way was grubbed and cleared as part of this infrastructure expansion. This allowed traffic to utilize this unofficial roadway, to the extent that the city has had to create and maintain a gravel berm to block traffic from using it.
City administration submitted a Capital Improvement Project Request form in 2002 (attached) and the project was not funded by the City Council. In 2003 the residents and neighbors of Valdez Mobile Home Park (VMHP) petitioned the City of Valdez for N. Sawmill Dr to be extended to the intersection of Atigun Rd. and Salcha Way. This petition requested that the project be funded for 2014, as the project was proposed for 2012 and 2013 as well, but the City Council decided not to fund it. The petition had 116 signatures (attached).
This project was picked up again in earnest in 2010. A traffic analysis was conducted (attached), and the project was 90% designed, including an expansion of the sanitary sewer system (see attachment). The construction was not funded and the design package remains on the shelf today.
In 2017 the City of Valdez Community Development Department sent a courtesy letter to VMHP regarding two unpermitted driveways that ...
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