 So, uh, welcome everyone here to this virtual community meeting regarding the upcoming address and area. Slide changed address area street reconstruction project. My name is a Greg Robbins. I'm a project manager with the city for worth in the transportation and public works department on the phone on the call as well. We have some representatives from the contractor from the design engineer from the water department that would be here to help with this presentation. If you need it to answer questions or anything else that may come up. So, this presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of the project that's happening in your area, provide you with some information regarding the upcoming construction process and the schedule that we expect going forward. So, here's the agenda of what I hope to cover in my presentation. I'll be talking about the project as a whole providing a summary of the improvements on each street. Talking about the construction process and discussing the expected schedule moving forward and then I'm going to block off some time at the end for any questions or comments that you may have. Okay, so, uh, first, talk about the overall scope of the improvements. This project includes eight streets in in the area that are slated for reconstruction. So they are with and street from Avenue C to Avenue D. Ash crescent street from East Vickery to Avenue E Avenue B from Riverside Drive to Ash crescent street Avenue C from Ash crescent drive to MLK freeway Avenue D from Ash crescent to MLK freeway. Belde's terrace from Avenue C to Avenue D and then we have Elmwood Avenue from Belde's terrace to MLK freeway and Uvalde Street from Richmond to MLK freeway. So, this slide shows the funding for each street. This project is part of the 2022 bond, which was voted on and passed back in May by the residents of Fort Worth and I apologize. My camera may have gone off. Um, I'll try to get it started again. There we go. Um, so we have six of the streets associated with this project that are funded by the bond and we have a couple of streets that are funded by the water department. Alright, so, um, next couple of slides, I'm going to discuss the existing conditions and give you a breakdown of the proposed improvements for each street. So, this slide shows the existing conditions of these streets and why they were slated for reconstruction in the first place. You can see from the pictures, the issues that we'll be correcting include damaged asphalt pavement, missing or broken curbs and gutter, damaged or missing sidewalk, missing driveways, damaged driveways, as well as replacing or upgrading the water and sewer utilities under the street. So, I'm kind of breaking these down into a couple of different chunks. You'll see why when we get to the scheduling at the end, but for Elmwood and Ubaldi, we'll be installing a new water in both streets, a new sewer line and Ubaldi. That's for paving improvements. We're coming through with new concrete pavement with integrated concrete curves and new driveways. So, for all the driveways on the project, they'll be at least 11 feet wide. That's our minimum width for we're going to match your existing driveway width. And Ubaldi Street will have sidewalks on both sides. On Aspressant Avenue C and Avenue D, we're going to be replacing the existing water line with a new 8-inch water. And it will also be concrete pavement with integrated concrete curbs. Same thing with the driveways, 11 foot minimum, or matching your existing width. And these streets are getting sidewalk on both sides of the street. And finally, for Avenue B and Street and Ubaldi's Terrace, we'll be replacing the 8-inch water that's in the street. And these streets will be getting asphalt pavement with concrete curbs and gutters. And same thing with the driveways, replacing all the concrete driveways. So next, I'll provide some information about the construction process and give you an idea of what you can expect and sort of answer some frequently asked questions that come up during these types of meetings. All right. So, why are we doing the project in the first place? Well, back in May, as I mentioned, the residents for Worth passed the 2022 bond, which allows us to have some funds to do reconstruction projects such as this one, which would target some locations in the city that are most in need of improvements. And so, when these streets were identified, TPW partnered with the Fort Worth Water Department to replace the underground utilities that were also in need of improvements in these same areas. All right. So, how will you know that construction is getting ready to start? Well, the first phase of construction is going to be the underground utilities being replaced. So, be on the lookout for a notice that looks sort of like this one. We're going to give you, there'll be a couple of different notices. The first one will look something like this. This one will say the construction is about to start in seven days. And then after that, you will get another one that looks something like this that says construction is starting the next day. So, be on the lookout for these as we start approaching the date when construction is getting ready to start. At the end, I'm going to go through the schedule for each street and give you an idea of when you can expect improvements to start being made. But these door hangers will give you an idea of when exactly the construction is about to start. Okay. So, during the construction of a new waterline, there will be time when your service will be interrupted. It'll be turned off for approximately a few hours when service is being transferred from the existing waterline to a temporary waterline. And then again, when service is transferred from that temporary waterline to the new water pipe that's been installed. You'll be notified when this is about to happen to let you know when this service interruption is about to happen. All right. So, here's some information about the water services that will be installed. Note that we only replace water services up to your property line, and we don't make improvements onto private property. But we will be replacing the water services up to the, like I said, up to the property line and we'll get a new meter box and a new meter. So, flushing the line is an important step to putting a new waterline into service. So, if you happen to see water running down the street, don't turn it off. Don't find a valve and try to turn it off. It could be that we're getting water samples, testing the line, doing other things. So, just know that if possible, you may see flushing happen. You may see samples being taken. So, don't worry about it. It is just part of the construction process. So, like I mentioned, to be able to keep water service to your home during construction, we have to run a temporary waterline to your house. You can see it's there in this picture, next to the cone. There's the pipe running down the street, the small pipe. So, there'll be a temporary waterline laid and it'll run a temporary service to your house. So, note that while you are on temporary water, you will be billed based on an average of previous month's usage. So, you won't be directly billed for water you use during this time when you're on temporary water. It'll be, it'll be based on previous bills. So, the other question, will you need access to our property? Most likely we won't. But in the event that we do, we need access for something or another. We will let you know before we, we just come on to your property. For the sewer services, there's only one sewer on this particular project and it's going in on Vivaldi. During the construction, the new sewer line, your sewer service will not be interrupted during the construction. We'll be installing new, new sewer services to each property, as well as installing a new clean out at the property line. And so, what that looks like is sort of like this. Here's a diagram that shows the portion of the new sewer that the city owns and maintains. So, I've mentioned we're going to install the portion there that's in blue in that, in that diagram. So, we'll be installing the new sewer line, the service to your house, and then a clean out at the property line. Some of you may be wondering how we deal with existing irrigation systems. If your existing system is near the street, the contractor will have to cut and cap your sprinkler line prior to construction. So, if the contractor either, either breaks your irrigation during construction or does cap it prior to getting started, they'll be the ones that will get it made right before construction is complete. All right. So, here's some information regarding the improvements that are being made above the ground. So, all curbs on this project are being replaced or added if one did not exist in the first place. For existing driveways, as I mentioned, the city will replace portions that are in the city right away and they will all be at minimum 11 feet wide and we will, or we will match what you currently have. And then most streets are also getting new sidewalk on at least one side of the road. There are a couple of exceptions, though, that a couple streets that won't get sidewalk. Another question that we get a lot is whether you'll have access to your driveway during construction. So, unfortunately, there will be times when access to your driveway is limited. You won't be able to access it when your driveway itself is being built as well as when the pavement in front of your property is being installed. So, the contractor will let you know when this is going to happen and so that you can make arrangements for other parking arrangements so that you don't come home one day to surprise that you can't access your driveway that day. The contractor will be making a pre-construction video prior to their starting work. But we do encourage you to also take some pictures of your property once you see that construction is getting ready to start, taking pictures, taking video, just to be on the safe side so that we have something to go on in case there is some damage that occurs. And I do see a question in the chat. Thanks for putting that in there. I will get to it at the end of the presentation if that's okay. All right. So, during construction, there will be some temporary lane closures. It's just the nature of construction. We got to get our equipment down the street. So, just be aware that it will happen. Signage will be posted to keep drivers aware of the work that's occurring and what the traffic movement is supposed to be. Also on here are hours of construction. During the week are hours of construction for the contractor are between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. And then if it is requested, between 9 and 5 on Saturdays. So, if the contractor is working in your street on a day, the trash is to be collected, they can help you out to make sure that the trash truck is not impeded or moving your bins to a different location to make sure that you get picked up on the collection days. Okay. So, now I'm going to talk a little bit about the construction phasing and the anticipated schedule. So, utilities will be installed first. So, that will be the water lines on all the streets in the sewer line on Evaldy. After they are installed and connected, there will be a temporary paving patch that is put in place until the street is ready to be paved and my camera went off again. I'll start it. Sorry about that. You can see there in the third picture, the asphalt patch is in the street that the temporary patch that's put in place after the utilities are installed to give a smoother driving surface during the time between when the utilities are installed and when they were ready to come back and actually pave the road. For concrete streets, all the existing pavement curbs and driveways will be excavated first. Then the pavement and the curb will be installed together. It's installed, we call it monolithically. So, the curb is integrated with the pavement itself. So, those will be installed together. And then, so in the contract, we'll most likely do half the street at a time. You can see it in the third picture there where they're doing one lane. And finally, when that is done, they'll come back and install the new driveways. For asphalt streets, the streets on this project that are asphalt, the existing curb and driveways are removed, are first removed and replaced. And then the existing pavement is removed in preparation to come back and pave it. So, here's an example of what a new concrete street will look like. You can see the integrated curbs and gutters, the concrete driveways and the sidewalks on the side. So, it'll be something that looks like this. And here's kind of what you can expect the new asphalt streets to look like. So, brand new pavement, the concrete curbs and gutters, new driveways, new sidewalks. And then for both, we will be installing new concrete sidewalks on many of the streets with new ADA wheelchair ramps at intersections. All right. So, here is our anticipated schedule kind of broken down by street. Construction activities will begin on March 13th. So, here, a little over a month and a half or so. And they're expected to run until April of 2024. The contractor is planning to perform the construction in three separate, I'll call them chunks. The first will be on Ubaldi and Elmwood, which will be the first to start with the new water and sewer line installation and hopefully finishing paving by October of this year. The next chunk will be Ashcreston Avenue C and Avenue D, the other concrete streets in this project. And then finally, Avenue B, Veldies and Ann, the streets that are being reconstructed in asphalt. Please note that just because the schedule shows several months that your street will be under construction, that doesn't mean that construction will be actively ongoing during that entire time. So, there will be some time between when utilities are finished and finished with their installation and the next, the next phase of construction occurs when the paving crews come in. So, I didn't want to scare anybody by saying, thinking someone's going to have bulldozers in the streets for nine months straight. All right. So, we've now come to the end of the presentation. We'll move into our question, question and comment portion. So, if you have anybody else has any questions, feel free to put those in the chat. I'll go ahead and answer those first and then we can get to anyone else who may be on the phone that wants to unmute themselves and ask a question. So, the question that I have in chat is, how long will driveways be inaccessible? So, we do have some representatives from the contractor on the phone, so he can chime in if you want. But in general, for driveways, you won't have access to them while the concrete is installed and is curing. So, anywhere from five to seven days while the concrete cures in a couple of days before that to set the forms and actually place the concrete. The other time you wouldn't have access is if the paving is right in front of your driveway. If you're on a concrete street, it would be kind of the same amount of time, five to seven days, four to seven days, while that concrete cures. Asphalt streets don't take as long. So, once we can come through and actually pay the street with asphalt, I believe it's only about a day or so before before access is back. If any of the contractor or anybody else had any follow-ups on that, I'm welcome to it as well. Yeah, Greg, this is Justin with McClendon. You pretty much got it right. So, we'll have a day where we're setting up the driveway, then the pour, the following day for the driveway or the paving. And then, like you said, about four to five days of cures. So, typically about a week from the day we block it until it's cured and can be opened. Will we know when that week is going to be in advance? Yes. We'll give you a notice and try to tape it to your door for both any kind of interruption. There is no place in this neighborhood to safely leave a vehicle unattended outside the property. So, we won't be able to leave for a week and we'll have to be prepared for it in advance. Okay, I understand that. I think you'll, so really what would be the easiest thing for you to see is once we get the road excavated, so basically when all the utilities have finished and we come in there and remove the existing street and it's just down to dirt, the next step is treating that dirt with a chemical, then we get into the paving. So, once we get into that phase, then you can potentially call our office and we can coordinate a little more directly with you, if you like. We'll need to. Like I said, this leads to my next question. This neighborhood is covered in homeless populations. There are probably 30 tents right now and people living in lots and their trash is built, builds up and that sort of thing. How will construction crews deal with that transient population? Don't really have a plan to deal with them. We've never really come across that. So, unless it becomes an issue, we're not going to address it directly. Okay. I would possibly suggest during construction, if there's no parking on adjacent streets, maybe when it comes time that you won't have access to your driveway, maybe speaking with a neighbor across the street or something to see if it would get across the street parking would be available. It's not available. Sorry. It's just going to be very inconvenient and so we can work around it, but it's going to be extremely inconvenient and being forewarned is extremely important so that we can plan for it. I want the construction to be done, but this is extremely disruptive. Right. Yes, it is. Now, what road do you live on specifically? On Avenue C. Avenue C. Okay. And I just put my contact information in the chat. If y'all want to write my name and phone number down, it will also be on the notices that we put out, but again, you have it right here if you want to go ahead and jot that down. Were there any other questions or comments, concerns? What kind of noise is this going to be noise all day long for several days? Is it going to be a day of digging or a day of two digging and then, or is it like what can we expect with that as well? We work from home, so we're here all the time. Yeah, I would say whenever the phase is right adjacent to your house, then it's going to be noise for the majority of the day, but it's kind of a linear process. So we start at one end of the street, work down to the other. So as we get further away from your property, you probably won't notice as much of it. So you'll dig the whole street out first, and then you'll do concrete on one side and then the other, or you'll move from one end to the other end of the street? Yes, for the for the paving, we would start at, like I said, at one end or the other, and then we would pour half of the width of the road. So you would still use the other half that is not not being constructed at the moment to travel to and from still until the road concrete's open. Okay, that kind of answer your question. Yeah, I just trying to try to get a sense of how how this is all going to go. I mean, I've seen it in other neighborhoods before and it takes a long time and it looks like a big mess. So I'm trying to prepare myself for a long time in a big mess. So that doesn't sound accurate, so it's a fair assessment. So Avenue C is getting concrete. So I pulled back up this slide that shows the concrete process and we kind of see what Justin is talking about where we're doing half of the road at a time. So in the in the third picture here, we've already done the lane that's on the right. And then they come back into the lane on the left. So that's sort of what it would look like. So one half of the road will always be passable. Yes, that's correct. But there'll be a week where we can't get in or out because our driveway will be curing or whatever. Right, we're replaced, we'll be replaced with a driveway so you won't be able to drive on it. The tree and landscaping that is a part of the easement, so we have our mailbox and we have landscaping, rocks and the sprinkler system which you addressed earlier. Do we need to clear all of that out before you get there or will you? We'll remove as needed and then we'll restore it. That's why we take that video that Greg mentioned to document the existing conditions and then if you have rocks or something other than sod then we would make the best effort to match that with the same material. Okay, I guess when the time comes for that to happen, you'll be engaged at some point. I'll be talking to somebody on site to make sure it matters that it matches. I understand. So there will be a construction inspector on site during the project. I'm going to go and skip to the slide here that has our contact information. So this is my phone number, this is my email address. Anything that comes up during construction, whether you have a question, you have a concern, you have a problem, give me a call. This is what I'm here for. This is what I hope to be able to help you all out with. So feel free to definitely give me a call if you need something. Inspector, on this project, his name is Brandon. His phone number is here. If you see him walking around or driving around, feel free to blog him down and ask him any questions, but he'll be the one that with booths on the ground with the contractor, check in, make sure everything's going okay. So definitely take down these two numbers and yeah, feel free to give us a call if you need something. All right. Thank you. All right. I can come back to this slide here in just a second, but I want to show this slide right here. Where can you get more information? So progress for this project will be on the City of Fort Worth's website. So you can do a couple different ways. You can either write down this long URL or if you just go to the City of Fort Worth's main web page, the home page, and type in this project number 102931. That's the project number for this project. It should take you right to the page that you need to go to. So it'll have this video. I link to this video, a map, some further information about the scope of the project, things like that. So oops, and I didn't mean to kill the presentation there. But yeah, this is the end of the project. So if anyone, I can leave the screen up for just a little bit in case anybody didn't finish writing down the contact information. If you have any other questions, anybody that's on the call now at the time, or if you don't want to ask it in the meeting here, definitely give me a call and we can talk about whatever it is you have been concerned about. I don't see any other questions in the chat. So if that's it, thank you. Everyone for your tins today. Thank you for being here. Like I said, feel free to reach out to me by phone or email if you have any follow-up questions or comments. And if I don't, if there's nothing else, I hope everyone has a good evening. Thank you.