 If you all can please meet yourselves so that we don't have an echo, that would be great. This is our community meeting for the traffic signal and pedestrian improvements at the intersection of Forest Hill Drive and Royal Crest Drive in Council District 8. I'm Fanta Caba and I am the City of Fort Worth project manager. The project engineers are Fries and Nichols. Before we get started, are there any representatives from Council District 8? Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. So, on our agenda today, we'll go over the project background and the location, the preliminary design, the project schedule, and the project contact information. So, for the objectives of this project, they include improving intersection safety and capacity by constructing dedicated left turn lanes in all directions. So, north on southbound and eastbound. And then traffic signal replacement improving pedestrian safety at the intersection by installing pedestrian signals and push buttons. Improving pedestrian access elements such as ADA compliant curb ramps and also upgrading the signing and striping. And this project is funded by the 2022 bond program. And then here we have our location. So, we're east of 35 and south of 20. So, here is our proposed preliminary design. So. Again, we're proposing left exclusive left turn lanes on all approaches. So, northbound, southbound, eastbound and westbound. We're planning on widening the roadway and also. Adding sidewalks on the west side and along Royal Crest Drive. And again, upgrading the pavement markings and signage. For our project schedule, we're currently in the design phase. There is no right of way acquisition anticipated and we are. In communications with franchise utilities and regards to any potential conflicts. The timeline for construction estimated contract execution is summer of 2024. With construction starting in the fall of 2024. With the duration of about 6 months and a construction cost of about 1.4 million. For project contact information, we have our design engineer Todd Buckingham. His number is 8177357517 myself. Not calling. I'm saying nothing. You want to be a and my contact information is 817392802. And then if for any service requests, whether it's for this project or any other improvements that you wish to see, or you want to report. We have multiple avenues for you to submit those. We have the my forward that for Apple. We have the my forward that for Google, you can also text hello to 817835 my Fort Worth or 6939. You can call the city cost center at 8173921234. And there's also a chat box on the city of Fort Worth website. And that concludes tonight's presentation. Thank you all and it is now open for any questions. I guess I do have a question in regards to that light there. Um, during the meantime of the construction with all the school traffic, how is that going to work out for the community? So, as we get closer to construction, we will we'll have another meeting. This will be the pre construction community meeting. And then we'll go over the conditions that you all can expect during construction. So, typically we've had an issue with flooding at that intersection and that 1st block of Royal Crest Drive and I know that they worked with I know Catherine with city of Fort Worth has worked with the. Kalina still boss to help eliminate some of that and that has been eliminated. So is this going to impact that in any way and cost that flooding to begin again. Todd, do you want to give just an overview on the drainage conditions at the intersection? Absolutely. So, as you're talking about there, there is open channels or channels on either side of the road with east and west side of 4 steel drive. We are working with the storm water department at the city of Fort Worth to make sure that the drainage conditions here are not modified and changed in any way. We do know that the drainage issues that you're talking about is something that it's on the city of Fort Worth radar for a while now and something that they're anticipating to help resolve in a larger scale, a long term and a future project. But the project here will not impact or not change the drainage patterns that that were resolved recently there with the city. Thank you. And you mentioned that it was there would be some street widening. I'm assuming you're speaking on forest till drive only correct. Yes, that's correct on the east and west side of 4 steel drive. There are some reconstructions on world crest driving to see some gray colors here and there on either side there. But those are really reconstruction in place. So they're widening there. Okay, thank you. So, my last question is, I just happened to get a postcard in the mail. So, is there a place that we can go to sign up to get alerts as as the date is getting closer? Cause we're really talking about a year out. So is there a place where we can go to sign up to get alerts when new things are happening or when it's about to start? Or do we just strictly need to watch our mailbox? If you don't mind putting your contact information in the chat, we can make sure to notify you once we have a date finalized for the pre construction community meeting. And then once construction is set to begin, we will also put door tags on on doors within a specific radius just so that everyone is notified of the upcoming construction. I'll let us sit in time. Do you want to ask a question? Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to unraise my hand. I was the one asking them. Problem question. Um, we live not on world crest, but on one of those entrances on the left side. Those 3 little instances. Um, when construction starts, we have, um, uh, dead end street. So if construction starts, what's going to happen when constructions on our on our side of the. So again, when we have our pre construction community meeting, we'll have, we'll be able to give specifics on what conditions to expect during construction. And then we'll make sure to, to highlight this area as well to give. Expectations for how to access this area during construction as well. Okay. Sounds good. Um, we also put our, uh, trash, um, pans on the side of the street. Is that going to be an issue when construction starts or where are we going to put our trash cans for? We have like that one street, that one way street into, um, that middle section right there on the left side. And we have our trash cans there. We get our mail from there. Like, how is that going to work? We will take note of that and make sure that we can provide. Answers for that during our pre construction meeting. Okay. Thank you. Sure. I think we will still be providing access so that you can get the mail and also have the trash picked up. Um, we will like have that element in our traffic control. Sounds good. Thank you so much. Um, there's a question from Randa Sanders. Uh, it's, I think just half written. Randa, do you want to ask a question? Yes, I would like to ask the question as far as the concerning the street, why? Okay, from Farsia Drive to WordPress. How far up Farsia Drive will just widen the street? Take place for North and South from Farsia. How far up would it, why didn't take place? Sir, I couldn't hear your question. The audio was kind of low. Do you mind repeating please? Yes. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay. The question was when they get ready to start to widen the Farsia Drive right here at a Royal Press, how far up Farsia East and West bound with widening the street take place? Sir, asking how much we're planning on widening the roadway, correct? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Todd, do you want to answer that? So yeah, Fanta, I think he's asking for the distance on either side of Royal Press Drive, how long will the widening take place? So what distance on either side of Royal Press Drive? Yes, Chad and Fanta, I can help answer that. So along Royal Press Drive from the center of the intersection of Forest Hill, Royal Press, we are reconstructing about 100 feet on the east side and the west side. And then along Forest Hill, I know this maybe wasn't a specific question, but along Forest Hill, we are going to be 300 feet to the north and 300 feet to the south. So on that 100 feet on Royal Press Drive, are you guys planning to make that a no parking zone? Because we do have an issue with parking on both sides of the street. So are we installing the no parking signs on Royal Press? Yes, especially on the west side, on the west side of Royal Press. Yes, because we have a lot of parking, like in the evenings, it's kind of hard to get, it's like a one lane trying to get down through there because we have a lot of parking. So I'm just curious as to how that's going to work. I think we were restricting some parking on Royal Press, but I'll have our engineer confirm that. Yes, that's correct. So on the east side of the intersection along Royal Press Drive, excuse me, that does have signage for no parking on that side. The west side currently does not have that signage. It would likely be appropriate to include that signage for the last, say 100 feet, 150 feet or so, but we would all confirm that with the Transgression Management Group, that's what I was talking about there at the City of Fort Worth and see if they agree with that as well. We could take note of that and make sure that we review that with the City. Yeah, please do because it's when, like when the school that's out, that uplift, ascend or whatever that school is, the neighborhood gets blocked on both Royal Press and Hannah Ranch with people parking there to pick up their children. So on both sides of the street, we have an issue with the parking, just with residence parking, you know, but when school lets out, it is a tremendous issue and it's almost dangerous trying to get down through there because it really makes it a very, very narrow one way and whoever happens to get there first is determines the direction that your traffic is going to be able to flow. Sometimes we have to go down to, like I live on Royal Press and sometimes I have to go down to Hannah Ranch to be able to turn in to get back over to Royal Press. Yeah, that's great to see that. We'll find a review that internally with the City, make sure that we've got the best response to that with markings or signage there. One more question in the chat asking from if we are providing any exit for the dead end streets. So, Vanda, are those the streets that are not, like, apart from this intersection, Forest Hill and Rollcrest. So this project only plans on improvements at this intersection. We won't be making any changes to the other streets as part of this project. Someone present their hand and make it back. Yes, I have a question. So we're not going to add lanes to Forest Hill, like make it a two-way lane on both sides because with that school traffic, sometimes I'm waiting in traffic over 30 minutes when I get home, when school lets out, just to drive like a mile or two down the road. So currently, I think with this project, we are just adding the left-hand lanes on Forest Hill, but I think it would be a part of a bigger project in the future to widen the Forest Hill to four lanes. Okay, down further there is four lanes, but it goes down to two lanes, right? Just with the school traffic, it's kind of, it kind of gets crazy trying to get in and out, out. And just to go one or two miles, it takes you 30, 45 minutes, especially during the peak times. Yes, and our transportation management is aware of it, and they have it in their radar, but they were not exactly sure on what the timeline of that project would be. But I think that's in a planning stage right now. It's in their radar. Okay, and my second question is on the light, is it actually going to have an arrow for you to turn into the neighborhood? Because with the school traffic, nobody wants to let you turn, so you're holding up a whole line of traffic when you have to turn in. So you'll have a green arrow for the left-hand lanes, yes, you will. Okay, because right now, it never turns for you to turn left or right, depending on which way you're going. You just have to wait till someone's nice and let you go through. I think you won't have that issue after this project's done. Okay. Okay, what is the preliminary, what are the preliminary start and date for this project again? Hanta, can you go on to the schedule slide please? Sure, so the project, I'm sorry. So the project is currently under design and we're planning on the estimated date for the contract execution for construction is next summer, so summer of 2024 with estimated start of construction the fall of 2024. And we will be having a meeting after this. Once design is complete, we'll have their pre-construction community meeting and then we'll provide you with the updated dates for the construction there as well. Okay, so we're looking at possibly an estimate time of 6 months at the most with a permit. Yes, that's the current estimate. If that changes between now and the pre-construction meeting, we'll give that update then as well. Hanta, we have one more question in the chat. Will the water meters be affected for the dead-end streets? Our waters are on the edge of the street. So, I don't anticipate any water meters to be affected as a part of this project. And even if it does, I think our contractor would be responsible to relocate it or adjust it to create, but it won't be impacting any water services to the residents. Does anyone else have any questions? We have one more question in the chat from Isaac. I live on the dead-end street and struggle daily to get out. Will there be any type of signage? So, Isaac, can you mention which street you live on for a cell? I have to check. Todd, do you know which location Isaac is mentioning? Exactly. Sure. I know rural crest on the east side does have a dead-end to it. There are a few things that we'll be doing with this project, specifically the phasing of the traffic signal that will allow for left turns to happen all at the same time in the east and westbound direction. There are some intersection improvements that are being made that'll make that more of an efficient movement to get out of our off-the-rural crest onto Forest Hill. We talked about some signage improvements as well that we're going to coordinate with the city of Fort Worth on the central for the no parking signs there as well to make that safer. And yeah, our goal here is to make that a more efficient intersection so that people don't have the rear inclusions that you guys are seeing today and to allow for the left-turn movements to be more clear and be safer and not be stuck in the traffic trying to go through the intersection as well. So that safety improvement that was talking about earlier is a really important part of this. I said sure. We can meet personally with you. Can you drop in your email ID or can you email Fanta? Sorry, her contact information is here on the slide now. So if you could email her or call her, that would be great. Got one more question in the chat. Who is going to enforce the no parking? I think it will be the city enforcing the no parking. We'll have some no parking signs up there. We already have some as a part of this project, but we will be discussing if we need to have the no parking site on the west side of the west street of Rollcrest and we'll let everyone know once we talk to our transportation management team. One more comment. Currently no one is enforcing the signs that are already posted. Let me check with that team to see what can be done. I currently don't have an answer chat. Do you know who we can reach out to for that? Hey, Shweta, this is Chad. I'm sorry. I had technical difficulties. Who are we trying to reach out to? I apologize. I lost connection for a minute. Someone to enforce the no parking signs? Will it be the police department that we need to reach out to? Yes, I believe that would be correct. So, Robert, let us check with the police department and see if we could reach back to you to keep you posted on it. I do have another question in regards to this construction that's going to be made. The question is, is this also another change that's being made because of the amount of traffic that is to be expected with all the new houses that are going to be built over here towards the back end of the Hannah Ranch community? Like, basically, are we expecting, is there more traffic going to be expected with the new homes that are being built? I am not sure about that project, but we can look into it. Candid, have you heard about this before? I'm not aware of that as well, but like Shada mentioned earlier, it is in the city's master-therefore plan to widen Forest Hill Drive. So, that is something that will be, will help accommodate any future traffic growth in the area. So, Fanta and Todd, a traffic analysis was done as part of this intersection improvement project. Is that correct? So, Chad, let me go ahead and jump in there real quick. So, this project was initially identified by the 2022 Bond Program before that Hannah Ranch development there on the west side of this intersection was considered or applied for city approval. The intersection, it was identified based on community input and community request and safety issues the city identified. So, this project is not directly related to and it is not started because of the development there on Hannah Ranch. The Hannah Ranch development is planning for other improvements to make it more efficient to get to and from the new development side, specifically a connection over to Royce Brooks Boulevard as well. But this intersection specifically is based on other issues that were identified before the Hannah Ranch development and the new Hannah Ranch development construction started. So, I do know that the North Central Texas Council of Governments, they are doing a study to look at widening Forest Hill and Wichita streets. I don't know when that's going to be finished, but they are doing a study to look at widening those streets because of all the development that's being done. Again, I think that would be a part of a future project, but we can have a more, I think we would have a better update for you once we are closer to construction to say if there's any progress made on that new or the complete widening of Forest Hill Drive. Vanta, we have one more question, sorry two more questions in the chat. One is what committee to contact to get an exit from North and off of all Crest and Arnold. Vanta, I think you can, yeah, I think yeah, this slide's good. You can request on either like, you can put in a request using either of an option shown on this slide here using an app, my footpath app or just texting hello to 817-835-6339 or you can call and city call center and they could direct you to the credit department for it. We have one more question. What type of improvements are going to be made on the creek that's next to my house? There's a lot of water flowing when it rains and the bridge and the guards are damaged. Chad, do you want to, sorry, Todd, do you want to give a brief on what kind of stronger improvements we are doing here? Yeah, so I think next to the house that you guys live out there to the south of that, as you said, there's a creek that runs east and west and this project will not widen the creek or make modifications to that creek in any way. The guardrails, sorry, the culverts that are there will not be widened as well, but the guardrail that is on the east side of Forest Hill Drive, as you all know, is damaged. You can see on the exhibit here the left side, there's a small dash line showing a replacement of that guardrail for vehicular safety improvements, but there will not be any channel improvements or headwall or culvert or channel widening in any way for this project. As we mentioned earlier, there's future plans obviously for this roadway to be widened when the planning and the dollars are there for the city. So at that point, there may be some improvements for this project, specifically, will not have channel improvements. It's out of your property. I have a question in regards to the Hannah, I think it's the Hannah Ranch entrance. It's the, you know, how there's two entrance to the community of the Hannah Ranch community. It's the one on Royal Crest and then the one that's closer to the uplift ascend. Who, I'm not sure if in this project, I know y'all mentioned a lot about Royal Crest, but I'm kind of, as we're kind of speaking here, I'm kind of concerned about that entrance. Like, will there be any, is there any consideration of possibly putting a crosswalk there? Because I do actually have children that go to uplift and they're having to utilize Forest Hill, the Forest Hill Drive. The school is not letting them use these gates that are on the side, you know, facing our community. They're making them go all the way around. So that entrance right there, for me as a parent, I would feel so much safer if there was actually a crosswalk there. Who can I maybe email to consider that? So the scope of this project is improvements at the intersection of Forest Hill and Royal Crest. However, you can use any of these options to put in that request and then it will be brought into the department that can that can look into it. Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone else have any questions? Okay, this is my last question for tonight. I'm noticing that when you're here, when you guys get ready to start the construction, along Forest Hill Drive, go up and down where the pedestrians have to walk, have a walk at, they're going to put those barriers back up because I've noticed in the past, cars come through here and they've knocked down all the little barriers with the wooden, I guess the wooden stakes and the water they had through there. So they're going to put those back up there for the pedestrians to walk up and down for us when the construction is starting. We will have more details on the traffic control during the pre-construction community meeting. In fact, if you don't mind kind of elaborate on that too. We are reconstructing the sidewalk and having it placed further away from the edge of pavement as well to have more buffer room in space between the sidewalk and the edge of pavement. Currently the wooden ballers with the wire connecting those ballers together is not planned to be replaced but the safer situation of offsetting that distance between the sidewalk and edge of pavement is planned to be included. Hi, I have one last question too. So we live in that dead end that we were talking about earlier and going down to that dead end. And if we're going from north to south, let's say we want to turn to our street. We struggle a lot because there's not a stop sign there and it's after the stoplight after the traffic lights. And I'm noticing now right now our entrance which is the middle entrance is going to have to pass through two streets instead of one which might be difficult because if there's just like traffic stop there, we're going to be stopping traffic from behind us on north side. I'm just wondering like how that's going to work out for us that we have no other way to go into our home because we live in that dead end street. I really don't even know an answer and I don't even know if you guys would be able to answer that at all. Paul, do you mind just verifying what address you are on Royal Crest or Forest Hill here? Yeah, so we live on 79, like 13, 79, 09, 79, I don't know where it is, like 17? Yes. Okay, yeah. So just south of Royal Crest, kind of a shared driveway through there. Yes. So it's that middle entrance on the left side and you see where like that's where it's going to start. That's where the two lanes are going to start. And let's say for example, like hypothetically, there's school traffic, there's people going on both lanes and we're going from the north to the south trying to go in. Do you understand the struggle we're going to have and people pushing us from behind to turn into our drive through because there's nothing there for us to like have as a stop sign or I guess like a yield to turn into our street because of the traffic that's going to start coming up because now we have two lanes to go through instead of one. I mean, I guess we can go all the way around Wichita and go through Evermond, but that would be so such like such a big thing for us to do when our entrances we could just go from north to south coming from the north to the south turning on the left side to our street. Do you see? Yes, he's specifically southbound making the turn into your driveway there. And the same thing that happened like what leaving our drive through that's when we're going to have if we're going to turn left, let's say for example, if I want to go to Burleson or Evermond and I'm leaving my house on that dead end street and I turn to my left, I'm going to have to go through two lanes to turn to my left. It's just for us on our side, it doesn't seem very like it doesn't seem very efficient for us. I know it's the city and they wouldn't want to fix word of press, but there's there's other residents around there. And like us, for example, I live in that dead end street, that's really difficult for us. One thing that I will say is kind of a benefit here is because we are adding a left turn lane, you will see efficiencies at the intersection where there will not be and I like it will not be as much queue or backup from the intersection conflicting with your driveway there. We're allowed to split vehicles that are trying to turn left. Currently, we know today that there are times when vehicles are trying to turn left and that are all enforced to go and try to get a royal crest. They don't have there's and there's also through movements conflicting with us. They can't make those left turn movements so that then people are then waiting in the cycle of a signal longer which makes that backup and queue longer, which is the big issue from the efficiency side that we're trying to resolve. And what what we're seeing is when we add that that new turn line on Forest Hill, it decreases that queue like because we're able to make that more of an efficient intersection. So but I do understand what you're talking about there on the south bound making the left turn movement into that shared drive. I guess my question is who's going to be liable if we have an accident there because of that well because of that like nobody's going to be liable except for us that's our entrance. But the fact that I mean that's why we're talking about this today right just make sure that we have that in mind with this project that you guys are having going on. And it's just something that us as a as this street we live there's five houses here on this street and we just I might be over speaking for my side of the street but it's really hard for all of us like in general and I think it might be a little bit harder. I just I know there's probably nothing you can do for us but if there's something you can implement like an extra yield sign for us or I don't know maybe I don't know what else you could do for in that case just to keep that in mind for us we'd appreciate that so so much. Now you said it exactly the goal of this meeting is to hear your feedback you guys use this every day we've visited the site many times but you guys see it every single day but the feedback is helpful for us to keep in mind to make sure that we're making the right and the appropriate decision for everybody here that that intersection is pretty tough being so close the the shared driver you're going to have is so close to Royal Crest it makes that pretty challenging and at times unsafe as you mentioned there. So let us put our head together as a team and as a city to make sure that we can get the best solution there and make sure to follow up with you on that. Okay thank you so so much to follow up with that how would you do you would you have to make another was that going to be on in that other meeting that you guys were talking about or how would that be in place how would that work out? That would be one way I do also know another member also put their email address in here that would be a really helpful way to get feedback to you as well. I'm sorry could you repeat that I'm was a penis engine. No you're okay yes if you could put your email address in the chat box that would be really helpful and we can follow up with you that way. Okay sounds perfect and the only reason I'm asking this question is because us personally as a family we've had accidents here where they hit us from behind and especially started when they we first had that signal like when we first had that light traffic light on and and that's the only thing that we're worried about as the neighbors than us I'm here again I'm talking on their behalf but I'm pretty sure that they're on the same mind as me it's a very different dangerous entrance especially now that we're going to have those two different lanes like on there but yeah thank you so much for listening to us and I'll put that email on there and if you could talk to my neighbor that's also in here and me as well um that would give us a little bit more of assurance of that we're not forgot we're not forgotten and that we all are also important part of the forest community. I completely agree with you there I appreciate that and I did have one more question for you as well we're able to pull the crash data for this intersection as well and sometimes those are recorded really well other times it's not not so much do you mind is there a certain time of day that's a specific challenge for you to get into that point or the crashes or the near the crashes that you all have had and is that been a certain time of day or a certain during certain events? We had our accident it was a Saturday afternoon I remember very well it's been a few years back but it was a Saturday afternoon maybe one or two o'clock it wasn't even busy at all so that's what I'm trying to let you know even if it's not like um the it's not like peak hours it's dangerous so now that we're adding in two more lanes that we have to turn into um it's still gonna have like it's gonna just elevate the the danger for us going into our lane on into our street our dead end street so that's what I've noticed I've also noticed there's accidents in the evenings I've seen them before I've seen plenty going on here not not in front of our address but right where the traffic lights at um evening accidents I've seen often um I don't know of anybody else as you know there are accidents at different times but I'm pretty sure if if somebody would like to talk about that they definitely could tell about the different accidents that have been there um but yeah that's pretty much it like I said uh I guess peak hours but also on non-peak hours it just depends on on how people are I guess driving if they're looking at their phones or I mean it just depends but that's what happened in our experience okay now I completely agree with you there sometimes there's situations where people maybe aren't paying attention or they're not expecting someone to turn or they're just casually going through saying oh no they'll be here and maybe they're going faster highway to speed uh maybe not aware so I agree with you that there's there's multiple reasons for that and yeah maybe not a good trend there so thank you for sharing your experience and the way that you've experienced the intersection thank you so much for listening okay just before just before you guys get ready in your meeting for tonight for your drive it's a uh it's a funeral quarter for most of the funeral homes uh using uh to heading up towards Brendan Bloodworth to head towards the funeral home because I mean to the funeral cemetery so were the funeral homes uh were they rerouting uh the funerals due to the construction that is going to be right here at uh we're all pressed and forced to drive or will they also have you know deal with traffic constructing they're going to be taking place here thank you for for your question I think that's a good point that's something that we will need to make sure is included in the traffic control plan just to make sure that you also have access to those services during construction anyone else have questions so we'll also have uh this presentation uploaded to the project website with the recording of today's meeting so if someone wants to reach out to us after the meeting if they have any questions or concerns I will have this presentation up with Fanta St. Todd's information in it and um you can always reach out to us after the meeting too thank you Fanta and Shweta appreciate it thank you all for joining our meeting today Todd have a good night