 Community meeting for our North Beach Street and Basswood Boulevard intersection improvements project. As far as this project, we will be reconfiguring the turn lanes and adding turn lanes on all 4 legs of the intersection. We'll also be reconstructing the accessible curb ramps at the 4 corners. Then we'll be installing new traffic signals all around the intersection. And then we'll be restropping and adding new signs all around the intersection. So design of the project is 100% complete and we've advertised the project and bid the project and hired a contractor McClendon construction. And now we're ready to start building the project. So my name is Chad Allen. I'm a senior professional engineer in the capital delivery division of TPW at this city of Fort Worth. Also on the call tonight with me is the city's project manager Iskall Shrestha. We also have folks from our design engineering company and folks from the contractor in the meeting. I believe we have some folks from our construction office too. And then finally, council member Carrie moon is on the call and also Alicia Ortiz in in the council members office. So Iskall is about to do. Go ahead. All right. Thank you, Chad. Again, good evening attendees, community members, project team and council member Carrie moon, my name is and this meeting is for pre-construction community engagement meeting for beat street and basswood intersection improvement project. City project number 101582. Today is April 19, 2021. It's about 605 p.m. The agenda for today's meeting is I'm going to give you brief description of the project background and its purpose, project funding, project schedule, and at the end of the presentation, we will take and we will answer any question that you may have regarding this project. Before I move forward with the meeting agenda, I like to introduce the project team of this project. Today we have Mark Spears and Peter Sue. They are the engineer of record for this project and they are with 5,000 engineers and from city construction office. We have Riley Robertson is going to be city inspector for this project. And we also have that in there is the Mac Plendon. He's with McLendon construction. He's going to be the contractors project manager for this project. The project background, the first item in the agenda project background and purpose. This project is located in council district number four at the intersection of. Not be fit and basketball ever the scope of the project includes full signal modification and adding a dual left turn lens on all leg of the intersection. This project intends to create a cost effective solution to improve efficiency while increasing the visibility safety and traffic flow. This project also aligns with the city's goal to improve the mobility and air quality. Now I'm going to talk about the existing condition. I will talk on to two different terminology. One is going to be the length configuration. Another one would be the traffic analysis. That's what I will talk about the length configuration a bath existing condition. The bathwood Boulevard, both eastbound and voicebound has a two through land and one left turn land. Be the street northbound has a three through land one left turn lane and one right turn land and the southbound has a three through land to left turn land and one right turn land. And we also did the traffic analysis as part of the project and traffic analysis concluded that the am peak hour intersection level of service is D with the control delay of 52 second per vehicle. That's in the morning at the evening peak hour intersection level of service is even worse. That's with the 59 second per vehicle. And the study concluded that for the left turn left turn movement is contributing to the delay at the intersection. I'm going to talk about the proposed improvements again into two terms on length configuration and traffic analysis. As far as the length configuration goes through lane and right turn lane. We are not making any changes. However, we are adding due left turn lane on all leg of the intersection. And we will be doing the full signal modification as part of this project. That being said, we will be replacing signal. Oh, mass am control equipment control cabinet conduit wiring things like things like that. And traffic is steady suggested that after the after the improvement the am peak hour intersection level of service is still going to be D. However, the control delay is going to be 38 sec actually 37 second per vehicle, which is 14 second less than 14 second per vehicle less than existing condition and the p m peak hour intersection level of service will be D with the control delay of 44 second per vehicle. Which is 15 second less than the existing condition. And as part of the since we are adding the left turn lane on all leg of the leg of the intersection. We have to remove some of the trees from the existing median. However, we are planting some about 16 trees on nearby park called summer field park as part of this project project funding. This project is funded with the 2018 bond. And also the impact fee project is casual. The contractor plans to mobilize tomorrow and they have 252 calendar days to complete the project. That being said, the, the, the project should complete by December of this year. This concludes the presentation your computer and ask any question that you may have. This is Lance Griggs. I got one quick question. I understand you're going to be developing these left turn lanes by quadrant. In other words, you're going to do one quarter at a time. Is that correct? That is correct. Yes, sir. Based on the schedule that's been permitted by the contractor. Uh, they, they will be working on, uh, that would will ever first. Then, then, and the second phase, they will be moving to beat straight. Okay, thank you. Thank you, sir. Hi. My name is Shannon. And I am the director of operations at gateway church at the corner of beach in Basswood. Yes, ma'am. I was just wanting to know, I, you said, basically till about December. That the construction project will be near us. That is correct. Substance of completion. This project is December of this year. Yes ma'am. Will this at any time affect any of the access to our parking lots or to the businesses. To our, um, to our East. On beach. I'll try to answer. I'm sorry. I was going to say I was going to try to answer that is called this adjusting with McClendon. The parking lot should never have access blocked. We're generally just working in the medians. So the driveways to all of the businesses should be open. Um, at all times, I do believe there's an agreement in place with your church to allow us to use a few of your parking spaces. Yes, sir. But other than that, I don't anticipate anything being blocked. Okay. That's good. Just we, um, we use forward with police department partners with us. I think officer is on. It's on this call. So we were just wanting to see if we needed to make any change in our plans to how we direct traffic at the end of services, et cetera. I don't believe so. Um, are your services typically Saturday and Sundays, or do you have any during the week? We have some during the week, but they're not heavily attended enough to need a traffic control. Okay. Okay. Our general philosophy is trying not to work on Saturdays. And I know the city doesn't allow work on Sunday. So. You should be clear. We should have that in a, in a good. Space for you for, for that, but if it's ever a concern, then obviously we'll address it for you. Okay. And if there is a concern, who would my point of contact be for that? That could be, that could be me. Okay. And at some point, maybe you could share your information with me. I should give you a number or an email I could call you. You know what, I'll put it in the chat just to you. Okay. And then you can answer me back in there if you would like. Sure. Okay. Thank you, Justin. You're welcome. I mean, you can, you can contact me at any time you like and I can, I can circle back with the contractor. Okay, I'll keep both of you is the contact for that. Just let us know and if something were to change, if we could just get, I'll leave my contact information on here. Just an update so that we can prepare our parking teams for any interruptions. There's a couple of good questions in the chat box. I can read those to you. If you can't see them, do you need me to read those to you? Yeah, please. Okay. So these questions, there's 2 questions. They come from Sabrina Brady. Thank you very much for asking these questions. Number 1 is what is being done for the Broward with court access to North Beach. Cars are always blocking the intersection and I assume it is going to be hard to get out. I'm not sure if that's if I'm understanding that question. Completely. Yeah, I have I need to take a look at this question. Is this question relates to this project or outside the footprint of the project. Project limit that if it's outside. Then I can I think please email me your contact information. I will I will try to either get you the contact of the correct person to get that address. If not, I will call you back. Would you please we were asked this question. Please can you please either call me after this meeting or email me at your convenience please. It sounds like that this project is outside the limit of this project. Okay, she has another. She has another question. Will the median stay open to be able to you turn from basswood east bound to basswood west bound. I would put this question back to Mark. Mark, would you would you be able to answer that question? Yes, I don't believe you'll be able to you turn in the intersection. This is Lance Griggs with the summer field neighborhood association. I know where that street is. I think their current backup concern is the backup traffic going westbound on basswood east bound. This is Lance Griggs with the summer field neighborhood association. I know where that street is. I think their current backup concern is the backup traffic going westbound on basswood. This is the street that goes into a neighborhood and it's the only entrance and exit until a little cold sack down in there. It's right just south of the big church. And basically with the traffic backup we have now they have difficulty getting out of their neighborhood. And they were wondering, I think if it's going to be worse. This construction, which I wouldn't think so, but I'm not able to answer that. And the you turn that you're talking about is the one up at the. Just just south of the library right there at the library. I'll try to answer that also this is Justin again with McClendon. I don't believe the project addresses anything specifically for Briarwick court and during construction. There may be times that the backup it's worse just given the nature of construction, but hopefully by the end of it, once you have to turn lanes to kind of take that traffic into hopefully that does help it. I'd have to let engineers see if there's anything more specific, but I think in general, the idea would help. Yeah, I think she was just wondering if the backup was going to be worse and I don't really know of any way to predict that either. Yeah, generally during construction traffic gets a little worse. Then hopefully it gets better once we're done. And I believe that we did. Go ahead. And I was saying that I know we we found out from the traffic study that the existing condition the backup of the left turn lane moment was having a lot of conditions you on that through but however, we are adding a new left turn lane on all leg of the section that that that issue that you are seeing right now should be resolved after the completion of this problem, completion of this project. Part of the problem those residents on Briarwick are seeing right now is that westbound, excuse me, eastbound turn lane at Basswood is backed up all the way back and goes so far back and hits the straight through lane and blocks the traffic there. And everybody starts moving over that right hand lane so it just causes a domino backup at that intersection. So they're having troubles right now. And what you're going to do is going to help and I know that just, I don't know if it'll be any better during the construction. And I apologize for my answer on the U turn. Mr. Griggs clarified that we are not closing. Those will be outside the project limits. I thought it would be. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I'll, I'll meet myself now. Yes. Hi, this is officer Rodriguez. I have a quick question going back to the gateway. Intersection will at any time any of those lanes be reduced down from the current amount of lanes going for the westbound from Basswood from beach towards the intersection towards the highway. Yeah, I can. Yes, during the daytime hours between 9 and 4, it will be reduced to 1 lane. Whenever we're working on on each quadrant as it was kind of discussed. Well, will this day up? Will the reduction stay up during the weekend hours, which is when it's mostly affected by traffic to the big church. And, you know, ongoing traffic in the intersections. No, it should not over the weekend all through lane should be open again. Unless something changes that is unforeseen at this time. Even overnight and in the morning rush hours. Both lanes should be open. Creek fall, which is right here right next to this intersection is currently undergoing construction and is completely impassable. That road is closed to everyone, except those who live on it. Is that going to be completed prior to the beginning of this construction project? Or does anyone know? Is there there are people live on? Sorry, they're sorry. For example, on Bracken drive, there's only 1 way to exit Bracken drive right now. And so then to be able to get out of Bracken drive and then get on to basswood and then not be able to leave this neighborhood. Because basswood and beaches under construction. You know, it's going to be a terrible inconvenience. Go ahead. Justin, I was about to say that only the land closer are allowed for them to close the land only between 9am to 4pm. Before and after, typically during rush hour, all the lanes should be open. Number 1. Number 2, this project, the construction is going to begin tomorrow. Contractor plans to mobilize tomorrow for this project. If the next project that you are referring to has not completed, then yes. If you want to know a substance of completion of another project, I can, I can reach out to the project manager city project manager who that is and then try to get the answer for you. However, I like either you to email me or call me after, after this, or if you'd like to share your number, I would love to give you a call tomorrow. Also, the improvements to fast would do not extend down. That's outside of the project limits that intersection. There's another question in the chat box that we didn't get to earlier. So I can read that now. It's from Randy Acosta and it says, are you adding existing turn lanes within the existing footprint? Or are you widening the roadways to include the extra lanes? We are adding a left turn lane on existing footprint. All we are doing is reducing the median. We are not widening the street footprint. All we are doing is reducing the existing median and adding a link. Mark, is that do you want to add something to it? Yes, that is correct. The outside. We're only taking pavement in the out of the median. Okay, I think that was answered correctly. Here's another one. Can a stop sign be put up at Briaric court and Basswood during construction. There is a sign that states do not block intersection, but nobody obeys it. Sounds like they're asking to put a stop sign on Basswood. Yeah, that intersection. I don't have the answer for that. I don't think so because the Basswood itself has a lot of traffic through that street. But it's something that I mean, I don't know who is it from the street services can do something from blocking the cross street. But yeah, at this point, we don't anticipate putting the stop sign on the Basswood. What steps will be taken to ensure that this doesn't go way over the timeline allotment like the beach street expansion did. However, many years ago. Yeah, I mean, we do you have a do you want to say something to it? My mind is running to it. Would they have 252 calendar dates to complete the project by we said to two months before they complete. If I anticipate basically what I'm having is monthly meeting right now monthly monthly progress meeting on site progress meeting and on that I am reviewing. Me as a project manager, I'm reviewing their two week look ahead a month look ahead schedule. And by the same November, August, September, October, if I see that the project is getting delayed then I might ask contractor to work on either weekends or holiday to make sure that we are we are getting this project on time. Yeah, I think that's really all we can do is just maintain and monitor the schedule. There are always unforeseen conflicts at times from different utilities and obviously severe weather but you know we'll monitor that and try to mitigate as much as possible. Okay, there's no other questions in the chat box. That's all of the chat box questions. Looks like no one has a question. I think before I close this meeting, a member, do you want to say something to the project team or the attendees? Sure, just thank you all for for participating. This is, you can see something, you know, is as what appears to be a improvement to a median can impact, you know, businesses and residents and churches. And so we appreciate the staff that we want to take on those concerns and let's get this thing built. All right, that's that concludes today's presentation. Thank you everyone for attending this meeting. And if you have any questions during during construction, just give me a call or I will try to get again. If I don't pick up your phone, then I will make sure that I return your call either same day or the next day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Well.