 Welcome to the Comanche Trail Street and drainage improvements community meetings. My name is Justin Naylor. I'm the project manager for the city of Fort Worth. Moving forward, we also have Mike Bennett, who will be the project manager of the design and through construction for the city of Fort Worth. We've had multiple consultants helping us develop this project. We have freezing nickels who did the project development for this project. And then we also have Pape Dawson, who will be the engineer record on the project that will be responsible for for drawing all the plans and seeing it through construction. We do have a project website and the link is below. So, if you go to the city of Fort Worth website, Fort Worth Texas dot gov, you can search Comanche trail H from H, R, O, N, and you should be able to find our website at that that way. This is just a screenshot of what our web page looks like right now updates will be posted to the to the website as we progress the project along. So, just to give you a little background on where we are. I work in the transportation and public works department and the capital project delivery group. And that's the group that's sponsoring this project. And this project comes about through our hazardous roadway over topping mitigation program, or our H, R, O, M, or H wrong. This program, the focus of it is life safety concerns. We want to make sure that we are addressing the most hazardous and the most hazardous crossings that present a life safety concern. And basically, then that, and that means making sure that we're not, we're addressing hazards that can sweep cars off the road and cause a potential loss of life. This project is currently in what we're calling what we call project development. So it's kind of an early phase. It's where we are. We've prioritized all of our hazardous roadway over topping site. And we're, we're seeking to better understand the source and the character of the flooding. This is also the point we'll be coordinating with city plans, like the master therapy plans or a park master plan to make sure that whatever improvements we put in now will work for for the long term. This is also what we're looking at existing utilities such as water sewer communication lines overhead power. We want to make sure that we have a good handle on what could potentially solve the project down. We also look at what required permits we have. Yes, we are a city. So, but we do, we are still required to get permits from other entities as well. So this would be like our floodplain development permit, which regulates work within the floodplain. This would be other permits with the US Army Corps of engineers. And then we also want to make sure we understand other site constraints such as what right of way is available to work with them. What easements are needed or what easements are available. The ultimate goal of project development is to provide effective, affordable and acceptable projects. And what that means is we want the project to be effective. We want to, we want it to accomplish the goal that we set out to do. We want it to be affordable as in so we want to make sure we're utilizing the dollars the best that we can. And we wanted to be accessible not only to the city to the cities involved, but also to the to the residents that are impacted by the project. So, to provide a little background on the project and some a little bit of the justification. Comanche trail between Malaga Drive and Marina Drive. And I apologize if I pronounced Malaga Drive incorrectly. I've heard multiple pronunciations and I'm doing the best that I can on that. There's a channel is a creek that crosses Comanche trail between those two streets and it over tops of the roadway. And it does present a life safety, not only to vehicles that may accidentally cross whenever it's, you know, dark and raining and there's water washing of the roadway, but it also, you know, emergency services may have to be rerouted during, during that type of event. So to provide a little bit more detail that that hatching in the blue represents the current flood plain. If you'll know that this project kind of borders between the city of Fort Worth and city of Lake Worth, which I'll take, take a moment to pause that we had been coordinating with city of Lake Worth staff. On this as there will be some water and sanitary sewer utilities that are owned by city of Lake Worth that that will be impacted and I'll show a little bit more detail on that later. And then just another view. This is a Google street view. You can see here. The orange construction barrels that are out and those are out for the purpose of barricading the roadway whenever water does get over that over the roadway. So, this is just kind of those Google street view cars. They just drive by every so often and it kind of speaks loudly that this is a regularly over top road if Google street view happens to catch the barrels out. And so now we're going to kind of run through the scope of the project and this is I'm going to step through this step by step fashion where we can kind of see all the different elements that are going to be put in with this project. The sequencing may not be exactly how it goes at being built in the field, but that's something that the contractor whenever we have one on on board will Will help lay out as well as the design engineer as we as they progress to design further. So, so there in blue, moving up and down the screen is the existing channel and you can see this is just kind of what it looks like today from an aerial view. We're proposing to increase the size of the culverts both in height and width. Today, I think there's a 48 inch pipe and we're going with two very large arch culverts. One of the benefits of these arch culverts is that we can kind of dress them up to make it look a little bit nicer. As well as the head walls, we're able to put some decorative some decorative stonework on the concrete on the on the headwall. So it's not necessarily just a flat concrete finish. We want it to look a little bit nicer and kind of compliment the area as well here on the cell on the south side of the structure or on the upstream side. This is a drop structure. So with those culverts getting larger, that means that channel is going to get a little bit deeper is going to get significantly deeper in that area. Meaning we need we need to have a great control structure or a job structure to change the grade from here this existing point down to what we're going to be putting at this lower point. I will also be putting some armoring on the outfall to help prevent erosion and undercutting of the new culverts. We will be putting concrete paving over top of the over top of the new culverts and then we'll be transitioning with asphalt to the existing to the existing pavement. The roadway is going to be a little bit higher and that's going to help contain those floodwaters so that the floodwater will no longer go over the road in most cases and will wind up under underneath the road. That's kind of the whole goals to pass more water under the roadway as opposed to over the roadway like it does today. And another thing to note on here is that the roadway section is getting wider and that's where I was talking about making sure that we're coordinating with master thoroughfare plans. And we want to build that these we want to build these roadway sections to their full future section. So if in the in the future community trail on either side gets wider, this section is already wider and it doesn't have to be touched again. And we'll be putting carbon gutter along the bridge section as well as which further ties into that the forward thinking the thinking about the future. And then we'll also be allowing having allowances for sidewalks there on both sides of it, which is that sidewalk is going to help with the city of Lake Worth Park master plan. And we do anticipate using some decorative stone from the area of the most of you are aware who live out there. There's a lot of stone in the area. So we will be using what so we do need to remove to kind of dress things up, make it a little bit more decorative, make it look look nicer as well as compliment the area that's out there. And these are stones that are that are considered historically significant from the existing structure. So that's going to help satisfy our requirements with our historic preservation office. And another thing that I'd mentioned earlier is the relocation of some water and sanitary sewer lines. So on the south side of the roadway we have a water line that's going to be relocated out from underneath the the new new paving or the new new concrete by the drop structure. And then a cemetery sewer line that's being rerouted so that it can stay stay below ground. So to provide a few more details and kind of summarize everything that's going on, you know, some of the benefits we're talking about again, life safety. We want to make sure that this is a safer crossing and during heavy rain event. Now some decorative elements like I mentioned the stones that would be placed along the roadway as well as using stone in the in the forms for the for the for the walls and for the drop structure. Improve pavement where you will have concrete paving over the over the over the new culvert and then allowing for a future trail in cooperation with the city of Lake Worth master plan of our master plan. Moving forward some anticipated milestones. This is kind of what we're looking at it from a high level. We anticipate completing the design of the project in the winter of 2022 or 2023 bidding and awarding in the winter or spring of 2023. Now we with construction to start to start in spring of 2023 and construction to be complete by spring of 2024. That's kind of what we're anticipating now as we move a little bit further along in design. And some of the schedules may be accelerated or may slow down based on some of the some of the challenges that we've identified already. And the funding. This is from the city of Fort Worth stormwater revenue bond funding. And currently our estimate is about $4 million for the construction and design of this project. And with that, I'd be happy to open it up to questions. Mr. Kinshaw, do we have any questions in the chat box? We do not have any in the chat box. Now we have several call in users and other guests that are on the line. And what we'll do is we'll try to mute others so that they're kind of not over talking each other. So we can go in order starting with any someone has a question and we'll let that person go ahead and try to mute the others so that they're again, we're not over talking each other. So very good. Now, if you have any questions, feel free to unmute yourself if you are muted. Yes, this is Scott and Cindy Landers. We live on the corner of a Laga and Comanche Drive. And we have some questions about the duration of this project. The construction itself. Yes. So we're currently anticipating that to be about a year. But at this point, we don't have full engineering plans and we don't have a contractor on board to say that that's exactly what it would be. But right now that's kind of what we're anticipating is about a year to do this. How will you reroute traffic? At this stage, we haven't looked into the detours yet that that is something that our designer will be fleshing out as they start moving along as well as the contractor that that's something that will be paid attention to. I'm not anticipating at this point necessarily a full shutdown, though it may be that that may be in the in the cars, but but at this point it'd be premature premature to say to say exactly what the redetour route might be or if we would have to complete the close the road down or not. One of the things we wanted to ask was the sidewalks that are going to be put in or they going to be on both sides of the. I thought I heard you say they were either shared between Lake Worth and Fort Worth or they were going to be on both sides of the road bridge. I think we're currently showing it on both sides. And I think the one on the south side, maybe a little bit wider. I'd have to double check the detail on that as far as what we're anticipating, but I think we're showing it on both sides right now. Unfortunately, we are not able to get the Fort Worth site up so we're asking questions probably be answered if we were able to look at that. So anyway, I, you know, I guess if you haven't got a contract yet and you don't have a start time and and and there's a lot of things that are kind of unknown there at this point for questions that we may ask. You know, we're the closest one to that bridge. Right. We see all the flooding and we see all the people that go across at the kids and just, you know, they stop on the bridge and they sit on those blocks out there and it's a danger to people coming by. You know, at high speed, they come down that road how often and commands you wide open all the time. And so first hand, we see it because we're out in our yard. You know, they're just there's a potential there. Like you say, of a threat to people's lives. Whether it be floods or whether they just walking across the bridge. So anyway, One other question in regard to the future. Are y'all in the sidewalk? So are y'all planning on putting a sidewalk down marina or down Malaga? Not with this project. But, but we didn't want to with this project. We didn't want to kind of hamstring ourselves and make it to where if, if in the future sidewalks were necessary were to be installed. We didn't want to make it to where this culvert crossing would be an impediment to that. Yes, sir. Thank you. I guess that's about all we have. I don't know if anybody else will be online. Some of these folks around here don't have access to. They had questions. A couple of them did that on the house on the corner of Pope Pueblo and Hiawatha, which are the next closest they're a Lake Worth resident. They got something from, I don't know whether it was Fort Worth or Lake Worth, but they live in Oklahoma and they lease that property over there. But they're up in their, but they're up in their eighties and they don't understand all the technical aspects of trying to log on to a site and discuss or, you know, leave questions. So, but I'll pass on whatever information I've got here. Yeah, my phone number. I appreciate you saying that I'm going to go and I'm going to say my phone number out loud just for any calling users. If you want to jot that down, you can give me a call. Okay. It's 817-392-7953. Okay. And I didn't catch your first name there. My name is Justin Naylor. N is a Nancy, A-Y-L-O-R. I did hear you. Okay, well. Thank you for the feedback. Yeah, we appreciate it. And we did know that, you know, this was going to happen. We've lived in this house for 11 years now and nearly almost before we moved or just after we moved in, they were talking about doing something to that bridge because it is flooded big time a lot of times. And that's a, the people just try to drive across it. You know, they're just crazy. Yeah. And it's kind of amazing that the small amount of water that it takes to float a vehicle. Yes. And, you know, sometimes the city doesn't get out there quick enough because what you have, you're dealing with here is flash flooding. And since they built those apartments up above, they've rerouted a lot of that water and it comes down through that creek a lot faster. And so I myself walked out there and put the barrels across to keep people from going, you know, across it. You know, I can't keep them from doing it, but at least I'm making an attempt to stop them from going in there, you know. So anyway, generally Lake Worth comes out and does it, you know, within as quick as they possibly can if they get a call. But I guess that's all the questions we got. I don't know whether there'll be anybody else on there or not. Justin, we had a question on the chat. Can you speak to kind of where we're at in the timeline? So this is our about roughly 30%. And the question is, are we going to have some more community meetings and as additional information is available to pass along. Right. That's a great question. So like Michael just said, we are at about our 30% 30% set of information. This is the first community meeting on this project. We do anticipate having another community meeting at the 60% set of plans and then at the 90%. And then one final one at the pre construction meeting, which usually the contractor is going to be in attendance on that one as well. So the contractor is going to be able to help answer a lot of the kind of day to day type questions that they're in the most impact your daily lives during the construction process. So we do anticipate working community meetings. And Justin, could you just touch on that if as the gentleman mentioned there that there's folks that you know their neighbors and how they could maybe get, you could maybe get their contact info and get the other additional, we can do mailings, but that's kind of the limit of ours. But if the neighbors know neighbors and they can pass that on to you, then maybe we can get their contact information. Yeah, absolutely. You know, as I stated before, my phone number is 817-392-7953 and my email address, if that's easier for you, is Justin.Nailer at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. And if any of your neighbors were not able to attend or you're, or you think of a question later that you'd like to ask, feel free to reach out to either of those, to me in either of those ways and I'd be happy to get back to you. And if your neighbors have any questions, you know, feel free to share my contact information. Justin, this is Jeff. There is another question in chat. How will the walking bike trail meet and go over the bridge? It is in to sense some park area now. If we could go some detail on that, that'd be great. Unfortunately, I don't recall offhand exactly what all is in the, in the trails master plan. But with this project, we are providing an allowance for those sidewalks and that trail on them on both sides of the roadway. So it's going to depend on exactly where the trail is coming from. So I may not be following the question perfectly. But again, our intent with this project is to not hamstring future improvements, which would include that trail. So I think we may want to start asking some of the call in users. If you're a call in user and you have any questions, feel free to unmute yourself. I don't know if you as a call in user would know that you're calling user three. But if you are calling user, feel free to unmute yourself and ask your question. If you have any, or if you're on the computer, feel free to do that as well. Justin, we don't have any more on the chat right at the moment and don't see any others on muting themselves. Well, I think it sounds like we've kind of reached the limit of the questions right now and certainly feel free as you digest this information a little bit more. If you have any other questions, please do reach out. We are here to help answer questions. So we will be moving forward with design and we will be, we will be continuing our coordination with the city of Lake Worth as well, especially on those utilities. And then as we start moving further into design, we'll certainly keep City of Lake Worth apprised of what's going on. And again, future meetings will be notified in similar ways. We'll send out mailers. Hopefully at some point the meetings will be allowed to be in person again, but right now we're doing the best we can with the online meetings. And so if there are no further questions, I think we'll go ahead and call the meeting to a close and I want to thank you all for your time and your participation. I thank you for your interest in your community and making sure that you understand what's going on. I think that's a very, very important role for the residents to play for all the citizens to place to be informed and to be involved. So again, thank y'all. And if you have any questions, please do reach out. So thank y'all. And with that, I think we're going to go ahead and stop the recording and we'll call it a meeting.