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Resolution No. 2 for the Jackson Avenue Sidewalk Gap Elimination Project - Westover Avenue to Park Lake Avenue - South Side of Jackson Road - Special Assessment District No. 61
Memorandum
The City of Ann Arbor has undertaken the design of the 2019 Sidewalk Gap Elimination Project for the upcoming construction season. This project included the construction of a new sidewalk along the south side of Jackson Avenue's Eastbound lanes from Westover Avenue to Park Lake Avenue. The project entails the construction of about 1,640 lineal feet of a new, 5 foot wide, sidewalk. In order to construct the project it will be necessary to perform some regrading of the right-of-way in order to allow the path to be constructed to ADA Standards. It will also be necessary to remove 17 existing trees that are growing close to the roadway that will interfere with the sidewalk construction. Given the existing ditch in this area, it is not practicable to move the sidewalk to avoid the trees. This project will fill in a lengthy sidewalk gap on this segment of roadway and is expected to be completed in Summer 2020.
A portion of the project will be along the frontage of the Dolph Nature Area. This segment is about 761 feet in length. This portion of sidewalk will be paid for by the Ann Arbor Community Services - Parks Department and is included in the Special Assessment District as City Share - Non-recoverable. The estimated cost of this work is $152,650.00.
On April 6, 2020 a resolution entitled "Reallocate $118,000.00 from the Resident-Driven Sidewalk Gap Filling Program to the Barton Drive Improvement Project and the Jackson Avenue Sidewalk Gap Project", Legistar Item No. 20-0328, is on the agenda that will, if approved, allocate $73,000.00from the Resident-driven Sidewalk Gap-filling Program to be used to defray about half of the estimated assessment costs of the proposed Jackson Avenue sidewalk. As this Resolution had not been approved at the time of this writing, th...
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