Title
Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with JJR, LLC for Phase I Engineering Services for the Fuller Intermodal Transportation Station (FITS) and to Establish the Project Budget of $541,717.00 and Appropriate Project Funds from Economic Development Fund Reserves (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Attached for your approval is a resolution to approve a Professional Services Agreement with JJR, LLC in the amount of $541,717.00 for conceptual design, environmental assessment and engineering services related to a Phase I FITS project. Phase I includes three (3) tasks and provides for development of the concept plan for the site, environmental assessment, consideration of site issues and conducting a detailed transportation study to consider the off-site and site access transportation system impacts, and recommended improvements.
The City owns the land containing the existing southern surface parking lot along Fuller Road and has determined that this area is: uniquely suited as adjacent to the existing Amtrak passenger rail service corridor, which is proposed to accommodate commuter rail service linking Ann Arbor to Metro airport and Detroit and has been designated as a national high-speed corridor between Detroit and Chicago; immediately adjacent to the University Medical center campus with thousands of employees and visitors daily; able to provide direct pedestrian access to jobs and medical services; accessible to bus transport via Fuller and East Medical Center Drive and is along a proposed signature transit corridor identified in the City’s recent Transportation Plan Update; and adjacent to the Washtenaw County Border to Border Trail.
The City and University desire to jointly develop an intermodal transportation station, currently referred to as the Fuller Intermodal Transportation Station (“FITS”), and shall include in its first phase of development a bus stop, and parking structure with approximately 900 parking spaces and a surface p...
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