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STAFF REPORT TO: Mayor Keis and Members of City Council FROM: Bill Dircks, Public Works Director DATE: April 8, 2016 RE: Spruce Street Improvements Ryan Industrial Park was first platted in 1978 and roads were built over the course of the next three years. The park is built on poor soils with a varying layer of fly ash over the top of a deep layer of peat. The roads were not built to 9-ton standards and deteriorated quickly. In 1991 the process was started to improve Spruce Street, Ryan Lane, and Ryan Drive. After a long process involving engineering and legal work the roads were improved in 1993. They were not improved to proper standards due to the extraordinary cost to complete such work. A full-depth reclamation was done to the pavement and it was graded and paved over with 4.25 inches of asphalt. It was agreed by all property owners that the improvement was not done to City standards and all property owners signed a declaration of covenants, conditions, and restrictions acknowledging this fact. Ryan Drive from Country Drive to Ryan Lane was improved in 2001 due to old wooden pilings floating up and pushing the pavement up creating bumps. The first 800 feet of Spruce Street off of South Owasso was improved by Frattalone Companies in the 1980s in order to better support all of the heavy trucks and equipment coming and going from his property at 3066 Spruce Street. The rest of the streets have not been improved since 1993 besides minor and major patching performed by the Public Works Department and contractors. In the early 2000s, portions of the roads started to fail due to the poor soils underneath and the heavy traffic using the roads. In the spring of 2015 significant frost boils popped up in four different locations on Spruce Street that required major repairs. About a month ago more frost boils popped up in at least six separate locations. The attached pictures show what the boils do to the road. The asphalt is gone in those spots and the poor sub-grade soils seep up to road level. Because the damage to the road is so significant this year, coupled with the fact that portions of the road have not been improved for 23 years, leads staff to recommend the improvement process be commenced for Spruce Street from approximately the north property line of 3066 Spruce to the curve where it meets Ryan Drive. Staff recommends the City Council call for a neighborhood meeting to discuss the project with abutting property owners. The cost to bring the road up to City standards will once again be exorbitant, so at this time staff is considering another full depth reclamation and re-pave similar to what was done in 1993. If the project moves forward, staff will likely change order the work into the 2015 street improvement project that just began using the prices that were bid on that work.