HomeMy WebLinkAboutColleyville Sidewalks Committee-Minutes-3/6/19961996 COLLEYVILLE SIDEWALK TASK FORCE (4/16/96)
Minutes of Meeting -March 6, 1996 /Page 1 of 2. (g3:sidwkmn1.6o3)
MEMBERS PRESENT: (4) Gail Manion, Chair; Judy Atwood, Charles Walton, Rick
Wenban; Staff Tom Niederauer, Sr. Planner, Lloyd Wood, Public Works Director and Jim
Foster, Director of Engineering.
MEMBERS ABSENT: (1) Rick Staples, Andrea Wenholz .
GUESTS: Steve Busby, Deena Dendy and Marilyn Knight of Cranbrook neighborhood
I. Call to Order and acceptance of minutes and introductions.
* The meeting of the 1996 Colleyville Sidewalk Task Force (S.W.T.F.) was called to
order by the Chair, Gail Manion at 6:00 p.m. on March 6, 1996.
* With some corrections, the minutes of the 2/21/96 meeting were accepted, and
additional corrections were made to the 1/31/96 meeting.
* Director of Engineering, Jim Foster was introduced to the members.
II. Report and request from Cranbrook neighborhood.
Steve Busby and Deena Dendy of the Cranbrook neighborhood requested
support from the Task Force for their attempt to get the Council to agree to
use right-of-way (ROW) escrow money to build a sidewalk along Glade Road
connecting their two streets (Cranbrook Drive East and West). They noted
that $65,000 is available from (developer) Sandlin for Glade Road
improvements -including roadway, drainage, sidewalks, etc.). Because their
street is very long and that the school bus stops only at one street or the
other, their kids have to walk a considerable distance around (the
neighborhood) or try to walk on Glade or in the drainage ditch. A sidewalk
connecting the two streets at Glade would prevent this. They noted that they
have easement approvals from both of the two owners that front Glade and
live between the streets. They mentioned that they talked to the Council last
year but got sidetracked on drainage issues. This time they are prepared to
go to Council with the sidewalk as the most important issue. After questions
they said that there are about 40 school students - 31 under age 13 -that
live in the neighborhood. The Chair said she would like to see the walk build
close to the wall and continued to the easternmost part of the development
along Glade. By consensus the Task Force said they would support the
neighborhood.
III. Report on projects discussed at last meeting.
A. Status of West Glade project -Niederauer mentioned that background
information had been prepared for the City Manager to use to talk to the
school and parents to get support for this project.
B. Report on East Glade (see Fisher memo). Lloyd Wood reported that he is still
undergoing "friendly" negotiations but has not been successful with one of the
owners (Harrington @ 69') to get the easement along the south stretch. Referring
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(III. Continued)
(B.) to the Fisher memo, Wood suggested that the project be built with funds from
the Heritage Roadway project along all properties, including the culvert, except the
Harrington piece and that the City come back later to complete that portion of the
walk. Jim Foster said that it would take a week to ten days to get the plans ready
with construction complete within six weeks.
C. Report on Grapevine /Glade connection under SH 121. Rick Winban reported
that the City of Grapevine has put aside money for their part of the Glade walk from
SH 121 east into Grapevine. Niederauer will investigate the protocol about working
with Grapevine to approach the State (TxDOT) to put the walk in under the freeway.
The Task Force feels strongly that the walk from Albertsons to Heritage (temporary
if necessary) should be built before the opening of school next year. Manion
wanted the staff to talk to the GladePoint developer about temporary walks and to
keep the walk open during construction
D. Connection from Ashmore to Pool Road. Niederauer agreed to talk to Ashmore
developer, David Bagwell to determine his future plans for connecting to Pool
Road.
E. Member reports /other.
* Manion requested that the staff keep the Task Force appraised of all projects that
might involve walks of some type such as the grant proposal for the Trails project.
Walton mentioned the proposed walk around the City Park / Kidsville area being
proposed by the Park Board.
* Atwood reported on private schools. There is a request from Covenant Christian
Academy to have a walk along the north side of Cheek Sparger from Mockingbird
to Bedford Road to connect to Sparger Park which they use for sports activities.
IV. Discussion of priority scoring criteria for sidewalk list.
The Task Force agreed to review the proposed list and discuss at the next meeting.
V. Adjourn:
* The Task Force agreed to meet next on March 27th at 6:00 pm.
* Chair Manion concluded the meeting at 8:00 pm.
Submitted by Tom Niederauer, Sidewalk Task Force staff.
Approved by:
Gail Manion, Chair
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(prep: 3/28/96)
(rev: 4/16/96)