#16 - 2025 Street and Utility Improvements

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STAFF REPORT DATE: September 17, 2024 REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: Authorize Preliminary Design, Geotechnical Services and Feasibility Report for the 2025 Street and Utility Improvements SUBMITTED BY: Jack Griffin, City Engineer REVIEWED BY: Nicole Miller, City Administrator Clarissa Handler, Finance Director Marty Powers, Public Works Director Chad Isakson, Assistant City Engineer ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL: Should the City Council authorize preliminary design, geotechnical services and the preparation of a feasibility report for the 2025 Street and Utility Improvements? BACKGROUND: The City maintains a 10-year revolving Street Capital Improvement Program (Street CIP) to promote the strategic use of limited financial resources while maintaining, developing or replacing the City’s local street network to an acceptable level of service. The Street CIP consists of a 10-year overview of scheduled capital street projects to address pavements that have or are projected to exceed their useful pavement service life and can no longer be effectively maintained, and to address transportation capacity limitations. The 10-year horizon of the CIP provides the city with an opportunity to evaluate project priorities annually and to adjust the timing, scope, and cost of projects as new information becomes available. PROPOSAL DETAILS/ANALYSIS: The following public streets have been identified for improvement in 2025: • 59th Street Circle North, from Keats Avenue to the west loop (Prairie Hamlet); • 55th Street North, from 57th Street to the north cul-de-sac (Judith Mary Manor); • 57th Street North, from 55th Street to Julep Way (Rolling Hills Estates); • Julep Way North, from 57th Street to the south cul-de-sac and 55th Street North, from Keats Avenue to the west cul-de-sac (Lake Elmo Vista); • Jasper Avenue North, from Jane Road to the north cul-de-sac, 49th Street North, from Jasper Avenue to Jerome Avenue, and Jerome Avenue North, from 49th Street to the east cul-de-sac (Teal Pass Estates); and • Irish Court North, from Lake Jane Trail to south end cul-de-sac, have been identified for improvement in the year 2025. The project will include street and drainage improvements along and within the public right-of-way, with the type and extent of the street improvement to be based upon a geotechnical services investigation of the existing pavement sections and conditions. Existing storm sewer inspections will be conducted to identify storm sewer repairs or corrections deemed necessary to restore or improve the existing roadway drainage. There is no existing sanitary sewer or public watermain along any of the existing streets, and all areas reside outside of the City’s planned MUSA boundaries. Therefore, no sanitary sewer extensions are planned with this Project. In addition, no public watermain extensions have been planned or programmed by the City along these identified streets. However, staff is proposing that the Project investigate the feasibility and cost to potentially extend City water to the Prairie Hamlet properties, along 55th Street (Lake Elmo Vista) and