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HomeMy WebLinkAboutE-Communicator-City Publications-3/1/20151 Christine Loven From:City of Colleyville <mona@colleyville.ccsend.com> on behalf of Colleyvillle Sent:Sunday, March 8, 2015 1:34 PM To:Christine Loven Subject:Colleyville E-Communicator - March 2015 IN THIS ISSUE Agreement Paves Way for Six-Lane SH 26 Old Tyme BBQ Junior Anglers CFA Taking Applications Bunny Brunch Clean Sweep Early Voting New Look for Water Bills Quiet Zones Outdoor Watering Residential Protection Programs Road Construction CodeRED Citizen Fire Academy Reading & Recreation Sensation AGREEMENT PAVES WAY FOR SIX-LANE SH 26 The Colleyville City Council has made it official. SH 26/Colleyville Boulevard will be reconstructed as a six-lane roadway. The project's scope allows for reconstruction from south of John McCain Road (where Phase I construction ends) to Brown Trail, and includes realigning Tinker Road and Oak Pointe Drive into a single signalized intersection. Road construction could start in late 2015 or early 2016. The final decision to add two additional lanes to the planned four-lane project in a single phase was made possible by an agreement between the city of Colleyville, the North Central Texas Council of Government's (NCTCOG) Regional Transportation Council, and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Almost $4 million dollars in additional funding to construct those lanes will be provided by the NCTCOG. The city will provide an additional $1 million and Tarrant County officials have agreed to pay the remaining $1 million. Costs associated with redesigning the road from a four-lane to a six-lane configuration will be absorbed by the city. 2 QUICK LINKS CITY OF COLLEYVILLE CITY NEWS PUBLIC MEETINGS APRIL ACTIVITIES Zumba* Senior Center Mon. & Wed., April 1-29 6:30 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1180. FITCARLYLE Chair Exercise Senior Center Thu., April 2-30 12:45 p.m. For details, call 817.503..1195. Tot/Pre-Soccer McPherson Park Thu., April 9-May 28 10:10 a.m. or 5:15 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1180. "Rocket Readers" Public Library Sat., April 11, 10:30 a.m. For details, call 817.503.1154. Live Creatively Public Library Tue., April 14, 6:30 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1155. * Denotes a regular recreation class held at the Senior Center. Funding for the city's costs will come from the TIF (Tax Increment Finance district). TIF districts are designed as financing vehicles for cities and TIF partners to pay for roads and other infrastructure. The original Colleyville TIF, one of the largest and most successful in the state, encompasses much of Colleyville Boulevard and is primarily derived from the incremental property tax on commercial properties along that corridor. Phasing of the project, which means determining the order of construction, is not anticipated to be done until sometime this summer. This is a TxDOT project, so the agency is responsible for determining the project's phasing. The City Council also approved TxDOT's turn-back funding option, called turn-back because it "turns back control of the road to the city." Once reconstruction is completed, TxDOT will take SH 26 "off line" and the city will assume control of this section of the road, including decisions about speed limits, traffic lights, and street lighting. The turn-back funding option allows reconstruction of SH 26 through most of Colleyville. Any reconstruction south of Brown Trail would necessitate coordination and shared funding responsibilities with Hurst, since the road traverses between the two cities. Citing safety concerns, TxDOT requires that center medians will be constructed as part of the project. According to TxDOT, all new projects with 20,000 or more vehicles per day require medians and note that medians improve safety and reduce overall crashes, including head-on collisions, by at least 40%. Any median landscaping will be done with drought resistant plants, using only drip irrigation as required by TxDOT. View the Colleyville Landscape Branding Manual The SH 26/Colleyville Boulevard project has been on the NCTCOG's Transportation Improvement Plan for more than a decade. While it began as a six-lane project back in 1999, lack of funds at the state and federal levels, coupled with lower than anticipated traffic counts, brought about the decision to change to a four-lane configuration in 2013. However, concerns about mounting traffic congestion and inconvenience to both residents and businesses if a second phase of construction were ever warranted, led to city leaders and staff working with state, county, and regional agencies on an agreement to allow six lanes of construction in a single phase. CITY NOTES Old Tyme BBQ - April 24-25 3 Colleyville Public Library 110 Main Street 817.503.1150 Colleyville Senior Center 2512 Glade Road 817.503.1195 Colleyville Recreation 2512 Glade Road 817.503.1180 For a complete listing, visit the city calendar at Colleyville.com. City of Colleyville 100 Main Street 817.503.1000 Suggestions or Comments? Colleyville Center The annual BBQ cook-off kicks off at 6:00 p.m. with live music and great food. The BBQ competition includes a prize for the Colleyville BBQ Champion (residents only), as well as the Kids-Q cook-off. Proceeds benefit Special Olympics. Admission is free. For details, call 817.503.1111. Junior Anglers - April 25 Colleyville Nature Center The Junior Angler event is geared to those 16 and under. Hours are 9:00 a.m. to noon. The Nature Center is located at 100 Mill Wood Drive, off Glade Road, west of Colleyville Boulevard. Call 817.503.1180 for details. CFA TAKING APPLICATIONS Spaces are going fast for the 2015 Citizen's Fire Academy (CFA). Classes will be held on Thursday evenings from March 26 to May 7, from 6:30 to 9:30. The Fire Academy is free and open to Colleyville citizens 18 and over. Submit an application online. For additional information, email wsavage@colleyville.com. 4 BUNNY BRUNCH, MARCH 28 Hop on over to the Colleyville Center for a morning full of spring activities, including brunch, an egg hunt, and pictures with a very famous bunny. Tickets go on sale Feb. 23 and are $7/adults; $5/child; and free to infants 18 months and younger. Purchase them at the Parks and Recreation office, 2512 Glade Road, or online at Colleyville.com until March 20. CLEAN SWEEP - APRIL 18 Clean Sweep will be held Saturday, April 18, from 9:00- 11:00 a.m., or until containers are full. The event will be located at Colleyville Heritage High School, 5401 Heritage Ave. (enter from the 121 frontage road), and will be conducted on a first-come, first-served basis. Proof of residency is required-either a current driver's license or recent water bill. Residents can take advantage of free bulk trash drop-off collection, Crud Cruiser hazardous waste disposal, electronics recycling and document shredding. Keep 5 Colleyville Beautiful will provide tire recycling. The Crud Cruiser accepts hazardous waste not accepted in regular trash collection, such as paints, chemicals, and pesticides. Due to limited capacity, only the first 50 vehicles are guaranteed Crud Cruiser access. For the document shredding service, items should be in a cardboard box or paper bag that does not have to be returned. Plastic bags are not allowed. To facilitate traffic during the event, residents may not be able to stay and watch documents being shredded. The electronics recycling service will accept anything that plugs in or that has a battery. Download Clean Sweep details EARLY VOTING City Hall will serve as an early voting location for the May election. The early voting schedule is: Mon.-Fri., April 27-May 1 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sat., May 2 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Sun., May 3 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Tue., May 4-5 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Election Day is May 9, from 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. The voting location is Bransford Elementary School, 601 Glade Rd. NEW LOOK FOR WATER BILLS Your next water bill will have a different look. The new bills, which will start arriving this month, will feature a month- by-month historical use graph for your water service; more detailed information about payments received, including information about any previous balance; and a breakdown of the tiered consumption for your service so that customers have information that can help manage, or at least gauge, water consumption. RAILROAD CROSSING QUIET ZONES The quiet zones at all of Colleyville's three railroad crossings will go into effect on Wednesday, March 25. 6 A final inspection of the quiet zones was conducted on March 3. On March 4, the Notice of Implementation (NOE) was submitted to the Federal Railway Administration. Copies also were provided to DART, The Fort Worth Transportation Authority, the Fort Worth and Western Railroad, and the Grapevine Vintage Railroad. Anyone who observes or hears a train horn at any of the three crossings in Colleyville should notify the Public Works Department (817.503.1090) of the date, time and location of the occurrence so it can be reported to the appropriate railway agency. OUTDOOR WATERING The city's newly revised water conservation plan took effect March 1. Allowed watering days are now determined by address. We are currently in Stage 1, which allows watering two days a week. Under the new plan, outdoor watering is allowed as follows: Monday No outdoor watering Tuesday/Friday Non-residential sites (HOAs, common areas, parks, and businesses) Wednesday/Saturday Residential addresses ending in even numbers: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 Thursday/Sunday Residential addresses ending in odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Watering between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. is prohibited on any day. Recent rains have increased the available water supply. The Tarrant Regional Water District's (TRWD) trigger point for Stage 2 (once a week watering) is 60% of total capacity. A few weeks ago, the capacity was around 61%. As of March 6, the capacity was 65.4%. RESIDENTIAL WATER AND SEWER LINE PROTECTION PROGRAMS The city has been contacted by residents about emails and mail received from HomeServe. The company provides programs related to maintenance or repair of lines from a residence to the water and sewer mains. Residents should know that the city has no relationship with HomeServe, nor 7 does the city endorse this company or any company that provides this service. As in all cities, residents are responsible for water and sewer lines on their property. However, while some cities partner with such companies in a revenue-sharing relationship, the city of Colleyville does not. The decision of which provider to use, if any, is left to the discretion of the individual property owner. ROAD CONSTRUCTION TxDOT SH 26 RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT Please send any questions, concerns, or comments to 26@colleyville.com. Crews weren't able to work for a significant portion of the past week because of weather and road conditions. In the coming weeks, the contractor will work on finishing the bridge-including safety rails and bridge approaches. They'll also move forward on paving the remaining portion of Brumlow Road and the third southbound main lane, located south of Longwood Drive. There are no scheduled lane closures this week; however, there may be occasional closures for material deliveries or unscheduled work. Typically, day closures range from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and night closures are between 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Drivers should always use caution while driving through the work zone. SH 26 UTILITY RELOCATION PROJECT (City of Colleyville/utility franchises) Please send any questions, concerns, or comments to 26@colleyville.com. Bad weather and road conditions hampered work on utility relocation and city projects. Much of what had been scheduled this past week will be rescheduled for the coming week. Much of the information below appeared in last week's e-news. All new information appears in BOLD. Lane closures are expected from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. this week on the east side of SH 26, from south of Centerpark to Glade Road. Atmos will be installing new gas lines on the east side of SH 26, from Centerpark to Glade Road. AT&T will be working in the same area installing a new duct bank. All affected businesses have been notified. 8 Lane closures are expected from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the west side of SH 26, from Village Lane south to Pleasant Run Road so the contractor can place a water line. After installation, the contractor will be testing and doing tie-ins in this area, so there may be brief water interruptions. ALL businesses will be notified and tie-ins will be performed around their schedule. There will also be a new sanitary sewer line placed in this area and all affected businesses have been notified. Lane closures are possible from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. this week on the west side of SH 26, from Pleasant Run Road to Glade Road so a new sanitary sewer line can be installed. All affected businesses have been notified. Lane closures from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. are possible this week at the SH 26/Church Street intersection. Atmos will be boring across Church Street to install a new gas main. All affected businesses have been notified. Atmos be replacing sidewalks and driveways, and conducting some road repairs in various locations. Businesses will be notified prior to the start of any work and access will be provided at all times. The water and sewer utility contractor will also be doing driveway and road repairs from Church Street south toward Felps Drive on the east side of SH 26. Businesses will be notified prior to the start of any work and access will be provided at all times. A new sewer line will be placed behind the businesses near Colleyville Boulevard and Hardage Lane. Businesses have been notified and any impact will be minimal. Time Warner continues to bore cable and move overhead lines on both sides of SH 26 at various locations. All businesses affected by these activities have been notified. CHEEK-SPARGER/JACKSON ROAD ROUNDABOUT On Monday, March 9, the existing roadway will be excavated from Tamblewood Drive to Buckingham Place so that new subgrade stabilization can be performed and paving placed. Drivers have been shifted onto the roundabout, which is now in its final alignment. Construction is still taking place around the travel lanes, so for safety reasons, the 9 temporary stop signs will remain in place to slow traffic prior to entering the roundabout. The temporary stop signs will be removed once all construction activities have been completed. The contractor is installing the remaining curbs, medians, pavers, bridge pilasters, pedestrian rail, light pole foundations, and sidewalks. To keep the crews safe, brief lane closures may occur as necessary to finish the remaining work. PONDEROSA LANE/Kingston Addition Improvements Kingston Drive/McCain Lane will be reduced to one lane from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. this week while the contractor excavates the existing roadway to the new grade. Kingston Drive and McCain Lane will be limited to one lane for access at all times to residential driveways. The road will remain open to traffic and the work will not disrupt trash/recycle collection. PLEASANT RUN ROAD PROJECT Starting on Monday, March 9, Pleasant Run Road will be closed from Mission Lane to Church Street and from Bogart Drive to Church Street. For now, Church Street and Colleyville Terrace will remain open to thru traffic. Entry and exit for residents, mail delivery, trash collection, school buses, and emergency vehicles in the area will be from Church Street. All others should plan to use alternate routes: SH 26 to Hall-Johnson Road then to Bogart Drive or SH 26 to Church Street, then west to Bransford Road or SH 26. This is an extensive project requiring not only complete reconstruction of the road and construction of sidewalks and trails, but also constructing a new drainage system under Pleasant Run Road. This is a two-lane road that is being rebuilt as a two-lane road--so that construction has to take place on existing lanes with little room to maneuver, thus the extended road closure. However, the condition of Pleasant Run Road necessitates that the road be reconstructed. Once done, reconstructed roads done to the standards planned for this project have a lifespan of 40-50 years with only minimal maintenance, such as asphalt resurfacing, which may take 2-3 days and requires minimal disruption to traffic. The project was designed based on the input of the neighbors that took an interest in the project and submitted opinions and/or suggestions for the design, such as curb and gutter, asphalt or concrete, and even sidewalks. The city conducted two public meetings on the 10 project and met with neighbors and those most affected by the project prior to completing the design. Pleasant Run Road is being reconstructed as an asphalt street rather than concrete because a majority of those citizens who weighed in preferred asphalt. The Pleasant Run Road and Trail Improvements Project involves reconstructing a two- lane asphalt street with concrete curbs and gutters, constructing a five-foot sidewalk on the west side of the road and a 10-foot hike/bike trail along the east side, and new street lighting. PUBLIC SAFETY CITIZENS STAYED INFORMED WITH CODERED The city communicates with citizens in a variety of ways, but perhaps none as important as through the CodeRED emergency alert program. Whether an emergency affecting public safety or notification of health-related issues (such as a nearby human case of the West Nile virus), the CodeRED system allows citizens to be informed about issues related to their safety. The city offers the CodeRED service at no cost to residents and businesses. For CodeRED to be effective, phone or mobile phone information must be correct. To ensure that CodeRED has the right information, citizens are urged to update their contact information. Enroll in the CodeRED program or update information here. In addition to a home phone, multiple mobile phones can be registered for a single Colleyville household. CITIZEN FIRE ACADEMY Spaces are going fast for the 2015 Citizen's Fire Academy (CFA). Classes will be held on Thursday evenings from March 26 to May 7, from 6:30 to 9:30. The Fire Academy is free and open to Colleyville citizens 18 and over. Submit an application online. For additional information, email wsavage@colleyville.com. READING & RECREATION SENSATION RECREATION PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES For details, including costs, about recreation programs, call 817.503.1180 or view the winter brochure here. Registration can be done online (service fee applies) or through the recreation department. The recreation department is housed at the Colleyville Senior Center, 2512 Glade Road. 11 Personal & Professional Development Workshops- Skills for Life! (Ages 9-13), 4:00-5:00 p.m. Skills for Life! (Ages 14-18), 5:15-6:15 p.m. McPherson Park Tue., March 24-April 28, Times vary by age group Workshops designed to help young people build a solid foundation of personal and professional skills that assist in achieving success in their academic and professional futures. The workshops include topics such as: goal setting, presentation skills, professional etiquette, time management, and financial budgeting and saving strategies. P.O.W.E.R. Women's Self-Defense (Ages: 14 & Up) Advanced Martial Arts Family Center Sun., March 28, 2:00-4:00 p.m. P.O.W.E.R. = Powerful Options with Efficient Results! This is one of the best women's self-defense seminars in North Texas. Designed for all women, regardless of training or strength. It's easy to learn and very effective. Learn how to protect and defend yourself to avoid becoming a victim. COLLEYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY For information on programs at the library, call 817.503.1150 or view the winter brochure from the link provided above. The library is located at 110 Main Street, next to Colleyville City Hall. Spring Break Movies (Ages 3 & up) Public Library Wed. or Fri., March 11 or 13, 2:00 p.m. Watch a movie on the big screen at the library! The movies will be family-friendly, with a G or PG rating. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a caregiver at all times. Books 'n' Brunch Book Club (Ages 18 & up) Public Library Thu., March 12, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Books 'n' Brunch is an informal book discussion focusing on new and classic fiction titles. Snacks and a limited number of books are provided. COLLEYVILLE SENIOR CENTER For information, including costs if applicable, on programs for those 50+, call the Colleyville Senior Center at 817.503.1195. The Senior Center also offers a full slate of activities. It is located at 2512 Glade Road. Check out the classes and activities scheduled for this winter. 2nd & 4th Friday Lunch & Learn 12 Senior Center Fri., March 13, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Come for a complimentary meal and stay for an educational presentation from a local organization. Topics include medicine, finances, senior housing, senior services, and much more. Forward email The linked image cannot be displayed. The file may have been moved, renamed, or deleted. Verify that the link points to the correct file and location. This email was sent to cloven@colleyville.com by colleyville@colleyville.com | Update Profile/Email Address | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. The linked imagedisplayed. The fibeen mov ed, rendeleted. 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