 Jeff again, welcome everybody. I want to welcome this a virtual meeting for the 8th Avenue. Safety and circular and circulation improvements. City project number 1, 0, 2, 8, 4, 2. We have several people on the call. From the city of Fort Worth, including our engineering consultant. And various others we do. I don't know if we have council. Councilman Elizabeth Beck on the call. This is Catherine Smith. I'm her district director. She had a conflict, but I am here to. Represent her office and to use my ears for listening. Thank you for attending. Welcome. This is, like I said, this is the 8th Avenue safety and circulation improvements. This is tip number 4 for near South side. Incorporated. Mike Brennan is representing near South side incorporated. Mike, you have anything you'd like to say before we begin. Sure thing, Jose. Thank you. And also Allison Docker from our team will be joining the call. I just want to just speak briefly as to the origins of this project in case anybody on the call. Doesn't know how this all came together. This goes back a few years down back to 2018 2019. HDR is the engineering firm that we worked with to. To look at 8th Avenue roughly between Pennsylvania to the north. And Arlington to the south. And look for opportunities to improve the way that 8th Avenue operates, how safely it operates. And as well as some aesthetic potential aesthetic improvements. And out of that study, which looked at that full corridor and put together sort of a vision plan for a series of improvements that can be made over the upcoming years. These 2 intersections were identified as the top priority for safety and circulation improvements. Jose mentioned the TIF district tax increment finance district number 4. We administer our organization near Southside Inc. administers that TIF district, which is basically an account with funding that can only be spent within the boundary of the district on public improvements like the ones that we'll be talking about tonight. Through an effort to secure approval from the TIF board. For both the design and construction of the improvements. We'll, we'll talk about that approval. Happened for initially in June of 2019. We went back last year. We are actually in 2020 and once we had detailed design, we saw that we needed a little bit more money to complete everything that was needed, particularly at that Cooper intersection that we'll talk about all of the funding was secured by the TIF. Obviously, we're working in close partnership, not only with the city of Fort Worth, but our design friends from done away and from HDR. They're on the call to provide the details. And with that, Jose, I will hand back to either you or Mary Hannah and Allison and I are here to help answer any questions that might be coming out of that of the neighborhood. Anything that we can, we can talk about as far as how the design came together. There have been stakeholder meetings. Prior to this, I think tonight's discussion will focus primarily on the construction phase, but we're glad to help with any of those questions as well. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate the, the overview. It kind of gives a good rundown of the project scope and purpose of what our improvements are on the project. So with that, I'll, I'll move on. Here's the agenda of what I hope to cover and in my brief presentation. I'll talk about the whole project and summary of the improvements. Throughout throughout the whole project. Limits a little project overview. The project limits are as you can see on your screen from their on 8th Avenue from Cooper to Pennsylvania and the intersection at mistletoe and 8th Avenue. Some of the summary of improvements are existing conditions. I apologize. As you, as you already know, there's no protected left turn at Cooper. Our deterrent onto Cooper from 8th Avenue. There's also no protected left turn lane. To go from mistletoe to 8th. Some of the things that we plan to have corrected on this project is, as you can see these other existing conditions. We have uneven sidewalk, non-compliant ramps. Damaged roadway. Some potholes. That in all these will be addressed during construction. Here's some more examples of things that need to be fixed. You have sidewalks have been patched with asphalt. And. More non-compliant ramps. When I say non-compliant, I mean non ADA compliant. More examples. This. This here is down in various locations, but this here you can see. Areas of mistletoe where the sidewalk is uneven. The. Sidewalk is obstructed. The. Etc. In this slide with some of the proposed. Improvements that we have the benefits will be, we'll be widening the street to allow a dedicated eastbound turn lane. For the southbound traffic. As you can see in the middle of the picture towards the left hand of your screen, you can see. The. Area where we plan to widen so we can fit that in. This will. Improve traffic mobility in the southbound direct direction. It also will improve vehicle and pedestrian safety in this area. This will include. Six new ADA ramps. As well as signal street light and signing improvements. And along with it, we'll have improvements in landscape and irrigation. And we'll also be able to beautify the cityscape. Some more. Examples of. The improvements. Are in this view. You could see. You see where the area is in pink or the sidewalks, the area in green is the roadway. We'll be improving the. Or widening and improving the asphalt. A little more close up view in black and white. In case the aerial photography is hard to see. Here you could see where. Once we've taken and widen the street, you could clearly see the. Center lane is now available for left hand turn traffic. For east bound Cooper. And. We'll be restriping and repaving the whole. Intersection all the way up to Pennsylvania. At mistletoe. One of the things that we have here is we're removing. The left turn. We're removing the left turn movement. For traffic going northbound. On. Eighth avenue from mistletoe. This is. The sole purpose of this is to reduce vehicle accidents. And accidents with pedestrians. It also allows full. Ambulance access to the emergency drop off on mistletoe. And for that pedestrians will have. A protected crossing with an island. From traffic. And we'll also be including landscaping. To help beautify the neighborhood cityscape. Some of the signing that's going into this area. As you can see various improvements in. Notifying traffic of what. What is going in and what is planned to go in. For this intersection to warn drivers. Of. What's coming as well as pedestrians what crossing the street. Some examples of. What this will look like you have the rendition on the left. Kind of what we're envisioning how this should be completed. And an example of a new ADA compliant ramp we show on the. Right hand side. Here's some more examples. Of what the sidewalks and ramps. Will look like. Our project schedule. We anticipate to start. This coming May 23rd. It's a Monday. Beginning at mistletoe. Boulevard and eighth. And construction will continue. Through. Completion and. Construction activity will jump then to. The rest of the work for sidewalks and curbs. On the northern section for. Eighth Avenue. And then at that time in September. They'll finally finished. Demoing the road and paving and they should. Be finished with all their activity around October 19th. At this point, this concludes my presentation. Are there any questions. We've got a question. Sure, go ahead. This is our Brenda and my law office is right on the corner of eighth and Pennsylvania. And I really couldn't tell from your diagram. What you're going to do, but there's a tremendous. Problem with the traffic. At that intersection, which I guess is going to get worse. As they build a parking garage right there. I can't tell what you're doing at that point. If anything, where's your law office located? I can jump. It's at the, it's at the. What if it's the southwestern corner of 8th Avenue and Pennsylvania. And we have the 2. Offices right there. There's actually 3 homes. It's all it's amazing. You don't know this, but it's actually a. It's actually on the national registers, the 8th Avenue district. It includes those 3 homes on 8th Avenue and the 2 homes behind it on 9th Avenue. Okay. Okay. In other words, between 8th Avenue and Pruitt Street. Okay. And I don't know that maybe there's nothing going in there on this. Best I can tell, maybe that's the case. I don't know. And we're not doing any, any improvements as part of this. As part of this project. The green area that you see here indicates the paving limits. And that would be in front of your. Your business. Are you, are you taking any part of the sidewalk or anything like that? Or. To do this paving because it looks like to me, you've got 1, 2. 3, 4, 5 lanes there. There's only 4 lanes there now. Yes. Go ahead, Mary. So, this is Mary Hannah. I'm doing manager in neighborhood streets. So, by that section, you're seeing we will be transition to existing section. There is a dedicated right turn from it's Avenue into Pennsylvania. It's going to be, that's why you're seeing 5 lanes, but it is. Both of kids and improvement. I'm sorry. I have an understanding, ma'am. I just, I really have. Okay. Can you, can you go to the black and white. There you go. Next one. Yes. Okay. Can you see the screen, sir? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, my, my building is the 1, you see, you've got, you see on the, on the upper part of the screen to the right. My building is a big one. Then you've got 2 others right there and then you have Pruitt Street. And it's like to me, what you're doing is leaving the original curbing on the, what would be the west side. Am I correct? Yes. Okay. And then what you're doing is you're and you've got 2 lanes going. Going south. And then the 2 lanes going, oh, 8 going, excuse me, north. North. You've got 3 lanes. Is that right? Or am I, am I reading it? Yeah, that's the 3rd lane. Yeah, that's right. The 3rd lane is an improvement as part of Cook. So that area saying the arrow on the right. That is part of Cook's improvement. Doing that call. And we are, we both think the basement marking rebaving the street after we finish. But yeah, we are not affecting you. Hey, there were some beautiful oak trees that have been going there for about 40 years or so all along that street, which we're taking up on 1 day by cooks when they were building this parking garage. That parking garage going to be right up on that on that traffic lane without any, I take it without any landscaping or anything like that. Is that right? Real, real quick. I'd like to address that comment on the lane. We're not adding a lane from existing. Existing conditions northbound show 2 lanes in a dedicated right turn lane. And so we're maintaining that with this. New section. Yeah, yeah, that's what we're selling. And we're not thinking that section. In front of the future building. There was before there was no right there. No, no, that's not right. We've only been over here for. You know, 22 years, I'm just telling you that's not, there wasn't a right turn lane there. The right turn lane came right off of. What are they now have those 2 things sitting there? But if you're going to do this landscaping, is there going to be any landscaping on the. What would be the East side of 8th Avenue along with that parking garage is. Yes, I can address that. Yes, I think it will be part of the improvement. Have they compiled guidelines, Mike? I'll defer to Justin or somebody from cook, but it's my expectation that it will continue the lights and the trees that they have installed further south on 8th Avenue. Building the 1, the 1 that's on the corner of Rosdale or the 1 that's further north. The, the new garage that is between Coop or a taro and. I guess, South of taro, I say, okay, they're going to do the same type of landscaping. Is that correct? Justin? Yes, Mike, that is correct. And that portion of improvements have gone through city review the standard process. And so. Everyone has reviewed everything is approved and it will match the typical section. The, the, the intersection there is where the problem is though there's been numerous wrecks. They end up coming over into our property on a number of occasions. Because of the, of the left turn situations are going to be doing anything about that at all. I mean, there's a museum wrecks there. And the old reason there haven't been any lately is because the construction is so bad that there's. You know, hardly usually just 1 or 2 lanes each direction and that sort of thing. But before you started doing that construction. You can look and see there's a gazillion different wrecks at that intersection. Art, I'm sure that the. The team, well, I guess they, they, they stated that there are no changes to the configuration of the street as far as number of lanes and any of the turning movements at 8th and Pennsylvania. The only, the only improvements will be just the resurfacing of the street and but no changes to. No additional turn lanes or anything added at the Pennsylvania intersection and they're not going to do any landscaping on the west side of the street at all. Correct. All of that sidewalk stays as is, including, you know, south of Pruitt. The existing trees. And as far as the, like, for instance, they're not going to do anything about the. The the ADA compliance with the sidewalks along the west side there. That's a good question. They don't comply by the way in case. If anybody's interested. Mary, can you clarify if any of the sidewalk work extends that far north? According to the cold, we were not touching anything. We were not touching the court or the sidewalk. On any of that we were coming on. If section of what that is the only thing after that we are, like you said, we are rebaving existing street and putting new pavement markings. But we are not thinking anything. We can look at it if any of the ramp and anything is not compliant. We can look at that and check, but this will go back to New South side since they are the ones funding the project. And see what their budget and if it can be done or added or not. The other problem is pedestrian traffic, I think it's just going to be able to go on the one side on the east side. There really isn't any pedestrian markings to that are left really on the north side of the street or on the west side of the street. Are they going to do anything about that? Yeah, so we, the only thing that I think they wait once all the public now to cross at. It's and we're putting new signals, new street light, new crossing new area. So the main improvement since we are changing the street with. It's at the intersection of it and cover. How they can you go to that? Yeah, you can you can see. From the screen you see new area new. A pavement marking crosswalk and then at a cannon we also doing the ramps there. So that's mean it is. Excuse me. You're going to do that same thing at. At Pennsylvania and an 8th avenue because it's. No, we know our stop stop even before we touch the intersection we stopping. You see that stop bar. The dark black line. In the picture, that's where our boat improvement stop. So we are not touching anything in the intersection, but that will be. This run school, we have to go and change a lot of things and touch the signal and everything that's what we had to do in. The other intersection. It is completely change the scope of the project. Now, okay. Completely out of the scope. Are you able to note that there may be non-compliant accessibility ramps at Pennsylvania. And that those could be reported to the maintenance division. As they make those improvements across the city. Considering that there are probably a higher proportion of folks in. In wheelchairs around here that maybe this intersection could. Be prioritized for those types of improvements. You see there is you see the law office as you can see the driveway. And that big story you see the corner of Pennsylvania on the north side of the picture on the west side where is there is a cut looks like a driveway. That an issue for us to have a ramp there. That's very difficult with this. Driveway we have to reconfigure everything you have to reconfigure the. The signal it is similar what we are doing at. Cooper this intersection needs a whole new. Signals and whole new configuration it's going to be very difficult to retain this driveway. Actually technically based on the city rules now that driveway is not permitted. Because it's too close to the intersection there is no side distance nothing. That driveway will need to be moved. That and so mainly the whole intersection is concentrating in the east side. Next to cook children that have. Compliance and signals. So you can see the ramp here and everything on that side. It is compliant. The other side you are not permitted to cross it from the east. There is there is no ramp. There is no ramp there. And if you put in grand you have to both crosswalk. You have to allow people to come from a crossing its avenue from Pennsylvania and I don't think the signal is the line for that. So that's why I'm saying it is completely outside the scope of the project. I understand but. You can't move that driveway because that's the only entrance we have. I mean we have an entrance on both sides but that's the one entrance we use frequently to get into our building right there. I know I was talking about it. What I was talking about is the right. All I'm talking about is putting the same thing that you have across the bottom. Putting that on the on the north side. So that people who want to walk from. One side to the other and there are there's a there's a whole big apartment complex in there so it's being used a fair amount. And the signals are not are not timed very well. And there's no real striping there or from across across Pennsylvania. I'm not talking about doing much more other than just making it look like every other intersection does in the city because this one doesn't. And I understand what you're saying but a rule if I touch it, I have to touch the whole intersection. I cannot decide which one I touch and which one not. It doesn't work like that if I touch the intersection. That's what we're doing in Cooper. We are touching all four sides. Okay, but you're making all sorts of changes to the intersection on the south side. You're just not making any on the north side. No, I'm not making sure you're saying I'm not making any changes. It's a whole new lane that you've got there at least if what I'm interpreting this thing correctly. There was only this thing we are part of our project or this is an existing lane. We are not adding that. I just said we are not adding that doesn't existing one. You cannot see it now because cooks are building, but it is an existing. We are not changing the street with anything. You can see that you can see how that line is not dark. That means it is existing. If you go to like one slide above, you see how this whole thing have dark lines and then they have faded gray lines. The dark line is all new stuff, new curves, new sidewalks, the gray stuff is existing. So we stop and get cannon or little bit like on the west side, but on the east side, we're going all the way to bright. So, yeah, we are not changing anything. We're not changing the carbon, your section at all. It's an existing condition. You may not see it now because folks are using this lane for their construction. And if the affecting that lane and the core of the going to redo it, but it's existing, you're not changing anything. We are not, we are not doing anything to the east side. Only basements marking. We are rebaving the street look nicer after all the construction everything. Excuse me, is it going to be a sidewalk? Is it going to be a sidewalk on the east side? No, no, no, no, no, you see the picture here. You see how in the alley. We're going like dark line and that's where we're stopping our improvement and sidewalk. I'm saying is there a sidewalk going to be on the at Pennsylvania between between Cooper. Or between Pruitt and Pennsylvania is there going to be a sidewalk on the east side of 8th Avenue. Yes. Yeah, a lot of folks, the children improvement. Yes. Yes, but it's not of course children, not part of the project. And that's where there'll be some trees and stuff like down the way is that my understanding. Okay. We are not doing it. It's like, that's why I was trying to say cook children doing that section. We're only doing the bathing as soon as they finish to make it look nicer streets in front of all this new improvements. That's it. Hopefully that answer your question. I'm sorry. I mean, I cannot, we cannot go above or more than the project scope. We are limited to the project scope and budget. Right. This is Jared ranking with Winbeck. We're currently working on the projects there for took children to do have a couple of concerns probably probably we need to meet outside of this event. However, those two East lanes adjacent to the Dodson expansion in the garage expansion are paramount to our construction and our schedule. We are on very tight sidelines in that East facade of the garage is on our critical path. And being able to use that lane closure to feed that that facade is absolutely we got to have it to execute our work. We are going to have continued construction traffic in those lanes. Supporting the projects through the end of this year. Both projects are scheduled complete March of next year. Our concern is around the timing of this project and how it affects impacts. Our schedules and cook's ability to serve the community. As well as how it would look if we had. A new street and the barricades come down and you've got. A lot of potential damage on the portion where we would continue to work if this project does move forward. We also have a lot of construction workers that park. On the West side of 8th Avenue that use. Every day use the intersection that Cooper street. So we would be very interested in the sequencing of the upgrades to that intersection. And speaking for our client, there's a lot of patients and families. That visit the 758th Avenue building. Which is the building between Pruitt and I can't remember the name of the road to the south. But they're only accessible entrance to that building is from the north. And so those folks come out of that building from the north wrap around the building on 8th Avenue and go to Cooper. So that our client would probably when we can meet outside of this. They'd be very interested in the impacts to those folks and what kind of communication they need to put out for how long. So on so forth so. We do have some concerns. The timing of the projected timing of this project does pose issue for for our completion for for cook. So. I think Justin was going to help us schedule some time. Outside of this meeting to sit down and bet through. All those items so that we can both be successful and. Leave a beautiful product for the city. Where is the entrance to the parking garage going to be. There's a public interest on Pennsylvania towards. Closer towards this hill, sir. Because I thought they were going to go on fruit street, but that's not right. Is that right? Not intended, sir. We, you know, you can't definitely can't tell public don't go this way, but the intended public entrances on Pennsylvania. Okay, so I think that means that once again, because what I was talking about number of actions and so forth when people are turning left, they're going to have to. Most of your traffic is going to come off of off of 30. And they're going to have to turn left there at Pennsylvania. And that's sort of a tough deal right now. I don't know what they can do to make it better, but. Because there is a staggered light right now, but sometimes the traffic really builds up there. I don't know whether you thought that through or not, but. Then you're going to have to, they're going to have to then make another left another when they come on to off of. Off of 30, and then they're going to make a left hand turn on the Pennsylvania, right? And then go further down and. Into the entrance, so that's what you're anticipating, I guess, is that right? I'm not certain how the client, you know, they put a lot of work in the directing families on how to approach campus and where to park. And I'm certain that. That's something that they've taken into consideration and as they learn with the new facility that if they continue, if they see issues there that. They'll, they'll consider that in how they direct their families and patients to get the campus. Well, how many, how many parking, I mean, how, how many parking spaces do you have in that lot approximately. I believe it's somewhere north of 700 sir. Well, there's going to be an awful lot of traffic then coming, coming through there. More. This is, this is Sam Morsky with Cook Children's it is this is, I mean, the traffic is the differences instead of going down. They're still coming off Pennsylvania or excuse me off 8th on the Pennsylvania. Right now they're going to that garage that sets north of the hospital. In the future, they're going to stop just short of that and parking this garage so the. Part from the amount of traffic isn't going to change. Based upon what current traffic flow is just just where at which garage they're parking in. As far as the communication we've in all the study we've done. Well, before what you had was a surface parking there, but you didn't have 700 parking spaces in it or whatever. No, but the 700 art is parking currently in the garage that search. I mean, the garage that's north of the hospital right now. We're just moving the parking where they're going to be parking to better put them in front of the Dawson, especially clinic there. So, I mean, really, from a traffic flow pattern, there's nothing a lot changing. And we've run traffic studies and everything else on this to understand the impact to in and out of those garages as we as we stack those garages. Well, but the 1, the 1 further north, you're talking about a little further down the road so that the traffic doesn't build up. It's going to build up here. I understand your point and we did studies on it. And again, this is more on the 8th Avenue improvement. We can talk offline of the garage and its impact, but I don't want to hijack this meeting to talk about that garage. Okay, well, when are you going to finish that garage by the way? We'll be finished with that garage early next year. Oh my God. Okay. We can coordinate with the work on the garage. Yeah, runaway is both consultant for both project and we coordinate when we can do our improvement. We can work with the contractor. Both our contractor and coax children contractor on that. Thank you. Okay. There was some good discussion there. Any, any questions in the chat that we need to discuss Jeff or Mary? I don't see anything in the chat. Anybody on online? Have another question they'd like to ask or. Concern that they'd like to express while they're while we're here on the call. Oh, they are they working under normal, normal restrictions. 9am to. I can't remember the afternoon time to shut down. Oh, the work normal work restrictions are 7am to 6pm. Thank you. See. That's really there is a there's a question in chat now. Okay. Blake would like to know what kind of lane closures can we expect during the project? Mary, would you like to address this? Or. Yeah, that was a question to the contractor, but our expectation, it will be. 1 lane on a time. They cannot work like they cannot close the whole 8, 7 year old that. So I think the only thing we can approve them is close 1 line of time. They can work on it, but they submitting the traffic control to the city. To give approval from transportation division and make sure they are not impacting the traffic. Okay. Thank you. This is Blake Hunter. I work at Medical City for worth. I'm on for Ben to get our CEO. And yeah, I was just wondering with the flow of traffic from 8th Avenue, turning on to Cooper for our employees. I was just trying to figure out what I should be telling them in terms of lane closures to expect. So thank you. Yeah, we are going to widen the street first. So they're going to demo existing corpse. One side in a time. So, when they demo the curb and sidewalk, they're going to install the new curb widening the street. And then go to the other side, widen the street, close that lane widen the street with the new curb. And then we start the bathing improvement. And from Cuba to Pennsylvania will take a while because it also involves new signals, new signal foundation, new signal, everything is new on that intersection. So it will be, you will see like little bit slower movement because they have to go and do each intersection with the new signal and all of that. And then take out the old one widened the street. Then at the end, we'll do the bathing. So we cannot close more than that, but we keep will keep near South side informed what we're going to do. And they can share this information with their stakeholders. And we will put it also on the city website, which lane we are closing and from one day to a date. Okay, very good. And so, I mean, the main point of the project, I'm just hopped on a few minutes late and couldn't see the, the PowerPoint, but we're sat in the southbound turning lane on to Cooper. Is that correct from 8th Avenue? Yeah, who they can you go. So we're doing 2 and 1 then is this cobert so many years we are widening because we adding that protected left turn. So, I'm sure your employee will like that because they will have like now protected left turn with new signals. Yeah. Okay, very good. Thank you. This Mike Sanborn with all saints. Can you go to the picture that you showed on the mistletoe improvements? Definitely bear with me. Something tells me I want the wrong way. Oops. There we go. Okay. So really the material change is we're clarifying where the left turn lane on to Magnolia going southbound on 8th is so that yellow stripe. That yellow stripe then also creates a left turn with a median on to mistletoe when you're going northbound on 8th. And it looks to me like those little dream things are going to be trees there. Is that correct? Yes, that would be correct. And then the mistletoe going. Westbound will only be able to turn right there will no longer be a left turn option coming off a mistletoe. Yes, that is correct. I think that'll reduce some traffic accidents there. So that's good then. It'll be harder to get to Derek Allen's barbecue though. That's the only bad thing. Well, I can't help you with everything, but I know food's priority and let's just we'll have to find new ways to make sure that we get our tummy satisfied. But with that, I do appreciate everyone's time. Unless there's any other additional questions. This, this concludes our presentation. I appreciate everyone in attendance. Again, let me jump to the end. If you have, if you need my contact information. My office number is on the screen as well as my email. Thank you for. Thank you for attending this virtual meeting. Thank you, Jose. Thank you, everybody. Thanks, Mary.