HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-05-30 Public HearingApril 18, 1978
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Vevera: Public Hearing on South Gilbert Street Relocation Project. T
now declare the public hearing open. Also, anyone who wishes
to speak, please step forward, state your name and address so
the City Clerk can get it down for the record. You will be
allowed five minutes to speak.
Dietz: If it is all right, Mr. Mayor, I would like to give a presenta-
tion first and then maybe call for some questions. The purpose
of this hearing tonight is to afford the public an opportunity
to be heard on the economic, social and environmental effects of
the route location of the pavement and the proposed design on the
South Gilbert Street Relocation Project. This is all in accordance
with the Iowa Department of Transportation's Action Plan. Before
we get into this, I would like to introduce Mr. William Nelson who
is with the Iowa Department of Transportation's Ames office. Bill
has assisted with the project, and he is here to make sure things
run correctly tonight. But in fairness, Bill has expedited some
of our previous projects on Muscatine Avenue and Mormon Trek. Also,
in the audience is Chuck Schmadeke, Assistant City Engineer, and
we'll be available for additional continent later on this evening.
There is a series of things that have to be read into the written
record. I don't want to bore you, but there is a protocol that
has to be followed in order to maintain eligibility for Federal
funds. This project is included in the Federal Aid Urban System,
and this system is administered by the Federal Highway Adminstration
through the Iowa Department of Transportation. Eligible projects
of this nature are eligible for up to 70% Federal funding.
Representatives from the City staff and the Iowa Department of
Transportation, as I indicated, will be here tonight to answer
questions. During the formal hearing, itself, the proceedings
will be taped. If you have some questions as the meeting goes on,
please step forward and speak into the microphone. lie are tape
recording the meeting tonight so that there can be a verbatim
transcript made. After we close the hearing, City staff, as well
as the Department of Transportation member, will be out in the
lobby to describe in detail some of the aspects of the project if
you are interested and don't care to speak.
Pertinent information on the location and design of the South Gilbert
Street Improvement Project is available on request from the Depart-
ment of Public Works, and you may submit a written request prior to
April 28 and that would also be included in the transcript which would
be sent to the State highway Department and the Federal Government
for review.
The purpose of the project is to relocate South Gilbert Street from
Third Street south to the south terminus of Napoleon Park. The
first three thousand feet south of Highway G is going to be a brand
new alignment and as we go on with the discussion further, I will
show you some slides of that, but it is intended to be relocated to
the west side of Country Kitchen, which I am sure you are all aware
of the location. That first three thousand feet, as I said, is a
completely new realignment and south of that to the south project
terminus is on the existing Sand Road right-of-way.
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Several problems will be attempted to be resolved with the location
of this portion of the route, and I will go through those quickly.
The skew angle at highway 6 and South Gilbert Street will be eliminated.
The distance between South Gilbert Street and the CRISP railroad
crossing at Highway 6 will be increased so that we will be able to
construct a storage or left turn lane. The skew angle at South Gilbert
and the CRI&P railroad crossing will be greatly reduced in the vicinity
of Stevens Drive. A full eighty foot of right-of-way can be obtained
without creating a negative impact on the adjacent commercial estab-
lishments and the future intersection of the streets will not have
to handle the railroad crossing adjacent to the intersection.
A 66 foot wide right-of-way will be maintained at the south edge of
the project adjacent to Napoleon Park. North of that section an
80 foot right-of-way will be maintained. North of the Southgate
Addition, Part I, an 85 foot right-of-way will be maintained so that
we can have a left turn facility northbound onto Highway 6. The
existing 60 foot right-of-way north of Highway 6 will be maintained,
or, I'm sorry, will be enlarged to 66 feet. As you may well know,
there is a right-of-way restriction due to existing establishments
along that area and although it would be desirable to maintain the
wide right-of-way, we feel we can get by with the 66 foot width and
still be able to construct the project.
The pavement width south of Highway 6 will be four lanes, four 12
foot lanes, and there will be a left turn lane at the intersection.
North of Highway 6 we will stick with 11 foot lanes as exists
currently. Again, there will be a left turn lane. On Highway 6,
itself, we intend to reconstruct that part of the pavement at the
intersection to provide once again for left turn lanes. The
essential pavement itself will remain fairly well intact but
reconstructed enough to provide left turn lanes in each direction.
We will provide storm sewers and inlets on the project so that two
12 foot lanes will be maintained at all times. Culvert crossings
that cross the proposed realignment of South Gilbert Street will be
sized to handle 100 year design storms.
In addition to the pavement itself, there will be a four foot side-
walk on the east side south of Highway 6 and an eight foot sidewalk/
bike lane on the west side. The bike lane stops at the north edge
of Napoleon Park and the sidewalk on the'east side runs a little bit
further south. The intersection of Highway 6 and South Gilbert Street
will be signalized. We'll have left turn signals all the way around
and that will be an added convenience to anyone who has driven there
on a Saturday morning. The access control to the project will not be
limited. Any future access will be restricted to the current City
design standards, but curb cuts to potential businesses along the
route will be allowed.
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The entire length of the project is approximately 1.1 miles.
As I said it starts at the south end of Napoleon Park and
terminates at approximately Third Street. Going to the west
we will be reconstructing approximately 680 feet of Highway 6
and to the east, approximately 830 feet. These are to accommo-
date the left turn facilities. The estimated cost of the total
project is 1.374 million dollars. Seventy percent of this or
approximately $962,000 is eligible for Federal Aid Urban Systems
and approximately 7.5% or about $102,000 is eligible for what is
called Urban State Traffic Engineering Program share. This deals
strictly with signalization projects and traffic control projects,
and this portion is available for that section of the project
between Stevens Drive and Highway 6. Finally, the City's share
is approximately 22.5%, or about $310,000.
The schedule of the project: We submitted what is called a
Concept Statement on approximately January 27 of this year.
The purpose of this hearing is to provide an opportunity for
public input and the end result is that we will send in a
design location study which we anticipate submitting to the
State on approximately May 15 of this year. We're optimistic,
but we are hoping that we can let a contract by approximately
November 1, 1978. Whether or not we actually get started may
be another situation due to weather conditions, but if every-
thing goes as anticipated, construction could begin by early
1979.
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I've pretty much read this. I know I'm boring you with this
type of thing, but it does tell in a fair amount of detail what
the project consists of. This can be made available through our
office of Public Works. After the meeting, if anyone would like
COPY, if you would give me your name, I'll mail one to you.
We've put together some slides, and they didn't turn out too
badly, and I think they will be legible if I can just adjust
this.
This is the cover of the Project Concept Data. I put it in here
just to recognize that this is a FAUS project, and although the
name has been changed from South Gilbert Street Relocation to
South Gilbert Street Improvement Project, it is essentially the
thing that we started out with about a year ago when we first et
broached the subject to City Council. Rather than trying g
these maps pinned in here, and it's kind of difficult to see (and
this may not be a great deal better) but this is what's hanging
outside. At the right-hand side of the screen is the intersection
of Highway 6, and this is the proposed realignment of South Gilbert
Street. Currently, South Gilbert Street intersects at a skew angle
with Sand Road. Right at this area is the Country Kitchen. over
across the street is Pleasant Valley Nurseries. And as I keep
pointing out also, this is the section of the project right here
where we would anticipate acquiring the only structure on the project.
The structure houses Modern Wall and two other business enterprises.
The remaining portion of the project, although we need to acquire
the right-of-way, the land does not contain structures.
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This is a continuation of the project. This is the area I
described with the structure on it - right here at the inter-
section with Stevens Drive - approximately right here is the
borderline between the Cycle Shop, and this general vicinity.
These last couple of pictures don't show a great deal, but
this dotted line back of the CRI&P railroad tracks and
approximately this position is the old line of Sand Road.
As you can see on the north side of the - it's hard to see -
very small, but along the west side of the project is an eight
foot sidewalk/bike lane, and on the east side is a four foot
sidewalk. The green, if you haven't guessed by now, is supposed
to represent the parkway and the gray indicates the pavement.
The final slide is the continuation down to the south line of
Napoleon Park. I did take some slides of how the project exists
today. This shot - I think I'll talk in terms of anyone who is
familiar with the area - we were sitting at the Iowa Lumber and
Supply Company looking south along South Gilbert Street. This
is the intersection - DX Station on the corner, in the right
foreground is Pleasant Valley Nurseries.
We're still sitting at the same spot, but we turned the camera
a little bit more to the right to show Pleasant Valley Nurseries.
In the background is Country Kitchen and the project actually
goes to the right of the Country Kitchen. We're sitting at the
entrance of the intersection of Gilbert Street with Third Street.
To the left is the parking lot of Cox Realty. Can everyone see
this light if I shine it down here? It's clear to me. But this
is a lime sculpture rock pile that belongs to Pleasant Valley.
If you look along the south just to the left of the line of the
rock pile, approximately the center line. I guess I liked that
picture so I made two of them.
Okay, now we're just right almost at the intersection of Highway 6.
Country Kitchen is to the left.
Perret: You might want to explain how much land the City is going to acquire
in this area.
Dietz: We'll have to go back. This particular area - everything will be
pretty much - will fit into a 66 foot right-of-way. We've talked
to the owner of Pleasant Valley Nursery and at the very extreme of
his parking lot - actually beyond the parking lot - we will be taking
an alternative to acquire as much as five feet. In view of the
parking area in front of the building, we have been talking about
approximately two feet in this area. On the east side -
Berlin: Two feet from where?
Dietz:
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I'm sorry. Two feet from the existing right-of-way.
The existing highway line is where in relationship to the curve?
It's approximately that curve where that pickup is backing out
from - the inside curve of that corner lot.
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All that exists in the City right now?
Yes. That whole line exists now.
What about this side?
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right-of-way line and the building. In fact the 39 feet between
the right-of-way line and the planter box right directly in front
of the building itself. I think that we have found since the
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down towards the Modern Wall building. These red flags for instance
were not on the center line exactly. The red flags indicate the
proposed east right-of-way.
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gate's Landing is on the right and Country Kitchen is on the left
and the Robo car wash is in the background there. one of the things
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Now we are on Stevens Drive and this street is Sand Lake Road,
and Modern Wall is on the left side of the street, and we would
in fact attempt to acquire that parcel.
Balmer: You talked about extending Hollywood down to the Robo car wash
and that's a direct contradiction of what we had talked about
previously.
Dietz: That wouldn't bother me a bit. I would like to see it that way
for the sake of the project. This, the Hollywood situation, will
have to be resolved before we get into the right-of-way acquisition
stage with Country Kitchen.
We're still on Stevens Drive now looking south and in the fore-
ground is the center line of the proposed right-of-way and in the
background you begin to see some cars etc. from Kennedy Auto
Salvage.
This is a shot inside the Kennedy Auto Salvage Yard. The right-
of-way is in there somewhere. It was a little muddy when we
took these pictures so we didn't get up close.
This is a shot from the Hilltop Trailer Court, and you can see
the Kennedy Auto Salvage in the background, and actually there is
one, two, three metal buildings and the proposed right-of-way is
just on the other side of that metal building and runs through
Kennedy Auto Salvage.
This is a slide that looks northwest along Sand Road. To the left
is the beginning of the trestle for the railroad track that goes
over the Iowa River. It is rather low right there but our pavement
would cross the track at approximately this area before it gets to
the trestle. We will include an at -grade crossing and we would
propose also that there be a crossing similar to several locations
in town with lights and bells and so on.
This is looking south again. We are right on the curve of Sand
Road. This project will go right through and over that hill.
And this is just on the other side of the hill. We are at the
south edge of the curve. And we're pretty much at the same spot
in the previous picture, but we're looking south now, and this is
where the project - the proposed right-of-way - coincides - the
center line of the proposed right-of-way coincides with the existing
right-of-way. We are looking north here. This is from the driveway
of the Norton property.
Here we are looking at that same driveway, and we're looking south.
There happened to be a yellow pickup right in front of the end of
that driveway. It wasn't one of ours. This is the Norton property.
This home and the ten acres it sits on is listed with the National
Historical Register, and the possibility of getting a right-of-way
is extremely small, there must be direct communication with the
Department of Interior in Washington. Ile have elected to eliminate
the sidewalk on this phase of the project. This is Napoleon Park
and once again we have to eliminate the, sidewalk on the west side
of the pavement.
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Once again, this is called historical (4F) property, and it takes
almost an act of Congress to acquire such property. Okay, that
was the proposed plan. We'll just go through once more on the
existing plan to show you why we did not consider staying on across
Sand Road. This is one of the same shots that was taken looking
south from Nagle Lumber.
Here we are on Stevens Drive looking south, and we're just across
the railroad tracks still looking south. And here is the Kennedy
Auto Salvage. We're still looking south across Sand Road to the
railroad tracks. I guess here is probably the best picture to show
why we didn't choose this alignment. This is again taken from the
Hilltop Trailer Court. This is the existing Sand Road coming up
here and curving back, curving back and back to Highway 6. We've
got real right-of-way constrictions in there and without acquiring
several businesses it would bean almost impossible task to get a
pavement that would be a 20 year design. That's the end of the
prepared presentation, and if there is anyone who has any questions,
this would be an opportunity to raise those questions now.
Schintler: Ron Schintler, 1116 Teg Drive. I own the lot just north of the
Modern Wall Drywall Company, and the street alignment is going to
take a sizeable chunk off of that lot. We have plans currently
to build a new office and a warehouse for our firm. We are right
across the street right now on Sand Lake Drive, and we did purchase
that lot with the idea in mind to build a larger building. Naturally,
with the street alignment that is going to curtail a great deal.
But I guess we can live with the street alignment. I am concerned
that when this alignment takes place, that we are cut off from the
utilities that are presently on Sand Lake Drive right now. That
street will no longer be, and, as I understand it, there are no
provisions made to have the utilities put over to this vacant lot.
I am concerned that this be taken care of so that later when we do
decide to build we are able to build without having to tear up the
street to put in utilities.
Dietz: I think that we have discussed this very problem with Mr. Schintler,
and that I think it is important to have it read into the record.
We have not got the final design and there are a lot of details which
will certainly need to be clarified, but I feel confident that we
can take care of all of them.
White: My name is J. Patrick White with offices at 330 South Clinton Street.
I am here to represent Pleasant Valley Nurseries, whose business is
at 1301 South Gilbert Street, which is at the north end of this
proposed project on the west side of the street. We have several
problems.
A little bit of history to begin with - Gilbert Street, as it now
exists, was widened, I believe, in 1971 or 1972. It was widened
at that time to four lanes, and a considerable amount of parking
that was then available at Pleasant Valley Nurseries was lost.
One of the things they did in response to that project was they
tore out the front of their building and, literally, moved it back
six feet and built a new front wall. They are now left with
approximately (I have not yet measured it) less than 35 feet from
the back of that curbing which you saw in that particular slide
to the end of their parking lot so as to allow for a couple of feet
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for their patrons to walk in front of the vehicles. Assuming
the need of 32 feet 10 inches called for, 1 doubt very much
that two feet from what they now have is going to allow them
parking in front of the building. The number of spaces, I am
uncertain of, but I guess it would be ten to twelve. But a
removal of acquisition by you of two feet in front of their
building would pose a very serious economic problem for them.
They lived through a Gilbert Street widening project once, and
somehow I suspect they will again because Mr. Kroeze is a fairly
adept entrepreneur, but we would urge on you an examination of
any way possible to undertake this project and proceed without
the acquisition of their property, particularly in front of the
building. The alternative to that is I urge you to examine the
possibility of somehow providing them with additional land on the
south side of their property. Indeed, I assume the bypass right-
of-way is, obviously, substantial all the way along the bypass
to provide the necessary turn lanes. The only reason for this
acquisition is to attempt to provide them on South Gilbert Street,
and you don't have them at any other point on Gilbert Street. We
believe that that can be built at the intersection, however, without
taking Pleasant Valley property. With respect to the possibility
of your providing additional land, what we are suggesting is that
you talk to the Iowa Department of Transportation and determine if
there is some way possible to provide Pleasant Valley with some of
what would be the north right-of-way from the west on Gilbert
Street, in exchange for the property in front of the building,
if indeed you need it. It is terribly important to them also if
you proceed with the project, that work be scheduled if at all
possible, so you are not in front of the facility in the spring.
I'm sure some of you have been there within the last couple of
weeks. The months of April, May and June are their busiest time
of the year. It is difficult not only to find a parking space
there, but literally, to even get into their lot. If you have
construction in the way, it poses a terrible economic problem.
So whatever you do, please schedule your activities so that it
reaches that end of the project during the winter. There is a
safety problem already there, frankly, which is going to be
aggravated by your acquisition of even two feet of right-of-way.
In addition to the economic problem that they have with the parking
spaces, there is a safety problem with traffic stacking up out into
Gilbert Street. If you look at the accident records along Gilbert
Street, and certainly out at this intersection, you'll find in the
intersection at least, approximately half of them (I suspect the
same will be true on north along Gilbert Street), are rear end
collisions. I suspect it is something that will not be solved by
building in a turning lane. It's a problem with speed and with
people trying to get off on either side. It is a problem that will
to some extent be solved by a left-hand turn but there is not hardly
enough room now for a car to get into that parking lot while another
car is trying to back out of a parking space. What happens is that
they stack up on the inside lane on Gilbert Street, and you are going
to aggravate that problem by taking two more feet. i want to talk
a little bit about some of the problems which the document Gene
described suggests will be resolved by this project. I think we have
some real issues with some of the statements. The statement is made,
and it was made again tonight, that the skew angle at Highway G and
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South Gilbert will be eliminated. If indeed, it presumably will,
that assumes that it is automatically a problem and to that you
are remedying the problem by eliminating the skew. I have not at
this point had a chance to compare accident figures, but if that
is a problem, I assume that it will be reflected in the accident
figures at that intersection as compared to other intersections.
The statement is made that the distance between South Gilbert
Street and the railroad crossing at Highway 6 will be increased
to permit construction of a left turn lane. I don't think we
understand at this point why we need additional distance from
the railroad crossing to provide a left turn lane. You clearly
need to have the left turn lane, but you are going to have cars
stacked up at that railroad crossing anyway. If you drive down
that street on a weekend, westbound traffic from the Gilbert
Street intersection is stacked up now two-thirds to three-fourths
of the way back to Keokuk. The statement is made that the skew
angle at South Gilbert and the railroad crossing will be reduced.
Indeed, it will, but it will not be eliminated. It's a fairly
low traffic line and we are not convinced that those sort of
improvements justify an expenditure of 1.3 million dollars.
The statement is made that a full 80 feet right-of-way can be
obtained without creating a negative impact on adjacent commercial
establishments. I think that is wrong.
The document on page 6 talks about widening the right-of-way to
70 feet north of Highway 6. Gene made the statement tonight that
it is to be widened to 66 feet. Obviously, the smallest width
possible is what we need.
The statement is made on page S of the document that future
intersecting streets will not have to contend with the railroad
crossing adjacent to their intersection. The document does not
describe in any more detail to what that refers. If indeed, that
refers to the proposed fly-Vec intersection, I'm not sure that it
does, we don't think that justifies taking the land from Pleasant
Valley. Might I ask if that refers to something along Gilbert
Street?
Dietz: What that was intended for, Mr. White, was that on its proposed
alignment South Gilbert Street and the streets that intersect
it south of Highway 6, and there are some that might be proposed,
will have a clear space between Gilbert Street, itself, and the
railroad tracks.
White: Lastly, Mr. Mayor, we simply would suggest to you that there are
projects much more in need of the money you presume to have available
for this. The problems on the bypass can be improved by adding left
turn lanes, which could prove more economical. They could be improved
by adding improved signaling, which would also be more economical.
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With respect to the problem at Gilbert Street, I do appreciate
that this proposal attempts to do more than just improve that
intersection. If it were only with respect to that intersection,
and this project would solve the problems that exist there, it
would be a little bit like chopping down the apple tree to make
an apple pie. You can solve the problems with a lot less money.
There are other areas of the city with more important problems
where the money can be spent. Thank you.
Dietz: I think for most of your questions, Mr. White, I'm going to
have to look back on the tape to gather them together to
respond, but we will try to respond in writing to your questions.
It's a matter of opinion, I guess, on any kind of a project, but
we do feel that the project, itself, will be of benefit to more
than just the intersection, itself. Right now we have approximately
60 feet of right-of-way that exist south of Highway 6 and we predict
a real need for the traffic facility south of Highway 6 and the
real need for a more than two lane facility. In order to accommodate
that there would need to be the potential taking of higher priced
property, meaning Gay's Locker and some of the other business
facilities along the area. This potential route appears to be more
attractive.
The left turn lane - the reason we mention that as being a benefit
to the project on moving it away - I'll start again -- Moving that
intersection away from the railroad track as it crosses Highway 6.
We will be moving that approximately 200 feet. That will in fact
provide approximately ten car storage on that facility. And I do
recognize that sometimes that storage is a higher volume than perhaps
ten cars might handle, but when we are all finished, I think we are
going to have two through lanes or perhaps a right turn lane, a
through lane and a left turn lane, and I believe that with the left
turn arrows, etc., I think that you will find that traffic moves out
of the intersection a lot faster. We had discussed this project in
some detail with Mr. Kroeze, and I do understand his concern for the
project. When we first went to him - in fact, the way the plan is
drawn out there, it shows a taking from Pleasant Valley of seven
feet going up to a maximum of 13 feet. Mr. Kroeze did relate to
us that six or seven years ago they moved the building back six feet
to accommodate another project like this. We discussed the
possibility of eliminating the sidewalk on the west side, and that
is the way the project is being proposed tonight so that we could
eliminate five feet of that taking. We have not gotten the final
design and if there is any way to eliminate problems for both sides
of the project, we sure will, and we will work to that end but it
just appears right now that two feet will be necessary going up to
as much as seven feet on the south end of the Pleasant Valley property.
I guess that's all the questions I can recall right now. But once
again, we will respond in writing to these questions.
Vevera: Is there anyone else who would like to speak to this. Any questions
for Mr. Dietz?
Perrot: Yes, I do have a question. Gone, was there any discussion at all
about the possibility for a three lane street rather than the four
lane one?
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Dietz: In the nffice - yes. I think that we did discuss a third I:uie.
we, in discussing the project, felt that there was a warrant for
a fourth lane haled on projected traffic volume. I believe that
the projected traffic volume of that area south of Highway G is
11,000 cars. We feel that three lanes would only provide a short
term solution.
deProsse: Has there - the question raised about the parking, it seems to
me - is there a possibility of being able to provide land to the
west of the building in order to provide additional parking. I do
think that even two feet is going to infringe on the parking at
Pleasant Valley.
Dietz: That's one of the questions that I couldn't recall. We had
discussed this very situation with the State Highway Department.
They do own a sizable amount of property in the right-of-way
from Highway G, and this is a potential negotiation tool in
negotiating for that two feet. I think the Highway Department
probably would like to maintain that right-of-way if at all
possible, but I think that they are willing to discuss it.
Vevera: Are there any other questions? If not, I declare the public
meeting closed.
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