 Thank you, Jeff, and good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us. I'd like to talk a little bit tonight about. An upcoming city of Fort Worth project, Westport Parkway project. My name is Bradley, and I'm one of the project managers in the transportation and public works department. In the capital delivery team, and I'm on the I'm the project manager for this upcoming Westport Parkway construction project from all to Vista to Keller has lit. We'd ordinarily give this presentation, but for the coronavirus protocols that we've all been living through. So we'll try to make this the best the next best thing for this format here. So, as Jeff mentioned, we'll, we'll hold our questions to the end and sorry. And, and stay muted. That would help the presentation flow better and clearer. Hopefully. Joining us tonight are the lead engineer for the project, Jacob pays. He's a professional engineer from half associates, which is a. Prominent consulting engineer in Fort Worth and Jeffrey Allen, who you've already been introduced to here. He's our communication specialist. So this presentation is meant to provide some information about the scope of the project to update you on the schedule. Give you a heads up about what to expect with the upcoming construction and provide you with the necessary contact information as we move forward. So tonight, I'd like to cover a few things on that on the agenda here. I'll be talking about the project funding sources followed by an overview of the scope of the project, the configuration of the new roadway and then finally a little bit about the schedule and the phasing of the project, how it will be built and the timeframe. So, first, the funding is part of the, it's part of the 2018 bond program for the city of Fort Worth location was selected on based on several criteria and needs. Including the master thoroughfare plan for the city, the need to reduce congestion and improve safety at the teller has lit and altavista intersection. And generally to provide a more efficient neighborhood connectivity. So, approximately 7.49 million dollars was allocated from the 2018 bond program for this project. The remainder of the money, about $570,000 came from the 20 tax note reserves. Just to note that the 2018 bond program was voted on by the residents of Fort Worth in May of 2018. So, this is an on a higher level of view of the project. This slide shows basically the limits and the location. I'll present a closer view and just a moment, a couple slides from now. So, if you could bear with me, the project limits are from teller has lit just west of the condorosa ranch intersection to the recently constructed roundabout at Westport and also this there's also recently constructed roundabout at beach, which is not shown on this photo here on this. This little exhibit, so, but that they will connect to that roundabout as well on the south part. Overall, the length of the new roadway is about 1800 feet, about 3 eighths of a mile. So, short sections of Kella has lit, which is shown here on. Below the new Westport will be modified and connected. T, then to the new Westport Parkway and the same for ponder and ponderosa ranch road, which we also modified here. And look into the new extension as well, just a few quick project quantities and statistics. Like I said, it was 1800 linear feet of roadway improvements. It's a four lane section. So, quite a bit of concrete sidewalk improvements along the ponderosa ranch are given as well as trail and improvements along Westport Parkway mixed use mixed use trail that will connect to the existing park. Park trail, 2300 linear feet of a new storm drain system mixed use concrete trail is generally generally 10 foot wide, but it's between 8 and 12 based on certain conditions that we counter in the field and on site site restrictions the roadway and trail. Lighting will be provided and about 1150 linear feet of waterline extension is also included in the project. So, this side is a little bit more detailed at the look at the Westport improvements we overlaid it onto a recent aerial image for your reference, but it is laid out on the page. To try to get the most bang for a buck on the page. So, the north arrow, you'll see in the upper corner up on the right is kind of 45 degree angle there. So, but it will orient you to the rest of the project. So, the recently constructed roundabout at Alta Vista and Westport is shown in pink and it bounds to the north. Basically, it's on the right side of the image here. The roundabout at Keller Haslett and Beach Street extension also shown in pink. Bounds the project on the south or the, you know, on the left side of this image here. The proposed four lane divided Westport extension and two lane undivided. Tonderosa Ranch Road are shown in yellow. The sidewalk, the trail and park improvements are shown in blue on either side of this Westport Parkway and the either side of Ponderosa Ranch here. Keller Haslett Road is to tee into the new Westport Parkway. It's shown in green here. There's no sidewalk or trail alongside this new roadway stub. Overall, the construction staging when we start to build this will be finalized with the contractor as the project starts. It depends somewhat on the status of the property negotiations down on the southern end of the project. The southern end of the project, it's anticipated that phase one will begin in the northern segment of the roadway at Alta Vista and extend unhindered down to Keller Haslett Road intersection. The roundabout will remain open during construction for the life of the project. Keller Haslett will remain open during the first phase, but we'll have to close it for phase two when we construct the south end of the project, including the stub. Ponderosa Ranch here will essentially have to be closed during the project, the entire project duration. For park users, Waspers Park is right here, and at least we are going to keep at least one loop of the trail open at all times for the residents. We want to be safe and keep the construction activity away from pedestrians and bike users and so forth, but we'll keep one loop at all times open. When the project is complete, the original configuration is going to be restored and there'll be some new pavement and new concrete pavement, and it'll be very nice. So, it's a little bit about the staging there. Here's a shot of the cross section kind of describes the four lanes of Westport Parkway. It's on the city right away, 110 feet wide. The roadway sections are each 23 foot six between the curves. The outside lanes slightly wider. The drainage structures are on that side of the roadway, so you see the water drains to the outside. There are 10 foot wide mixed use trails for bikes and walkers, runners, pedestrians on each side. The roadway is high quality reinforced concrete on top of a stabilized subgrade. This type of construction we use for a long life and we expect a long life out of these materials. So, a little bit about the schedule. We've gone through a long process already through the design and so we're now at this exciting stage here where we've completed the design and procured a contractor. The contract has been vetted through the city's legal and financial people and the contract has been awarded. We still are finalizing the right of way acquisition on the south end, as I mentioned earlier, but we do have contingency plans to start work on the majority of the project where we do have the right of way acquired. So, while the final parcels are negotiated. The next steps will be a take off meeting with the contractor in the first weeks in April and that precedes the beginning of the construction. This construction will take about eight months. We anticipate instructions only allowed in daytime hours. And we believe will be substantially complete by January of 2022. Of course, we always shoot for faster, but this is the schedule as we see it today. This slide show some of the details of the phase. The low bidder was Jackson construction. They're from Fort Worth. Their bid was found to be responsive. They have experienced significant experience in Fort Worth with projects. The bids overall were very competitive and below engineers estimates. The bids, the closeness of the bids is a good sign for me as an engineer. We interpret that as being a good set of documents. And I think that's just one indication that makes me think that this project is going to be successful. But we do have to keep working hard at it. And then we have, we are aware of the many residents around this area are very concerned about their mobility. What was the tech staff project on 170 and so forth. And I personally don't have a lot of answers for you on those issues, but I noticed that Billy Havard is the project manager and he has joined the call. But this is about the Westport project, but I wanted to put his contact information up there in case you do have questions about the coordination with that project as far as the closures of the crossings and so forth. Those things are changing. It's a very dynamic project and I think the any answers that we might give today might might be changing as we go. So I'm not qualified to give that, but we can discuss that a little bit later. So I just wanted to recognize this project is being important to the residents and close to our project. So we do, we are aware of the challenges in the area. So, and so I'm, this is we're excited to begin this project. I'd like to share my contact information again in the event that you have any additional questions or concerns tonight. I've shown our contractors information as well and my inspector for the project ahead inspector for the city of Fort Worth. These two individuals have are going to be gearing up as we as we approach the construction. So until then, I'm probably the best source for sure of at least trying to get you the information you need. But they'll be more involved as we ramp up the construction. That and Mr. Havards contact information are probably the ones that you might be looking for tonight. I appreciate your listening to my presentation and joining us tonight and. I have a couple of colleagues that joined me. Like I mentioned, Mr. Jacob, and, and, and just they might be able to, since I can't really see the chat windows, they might be able to read some of the chat questions if there are any. And with that, I can take questions from anybody that might have them. I think if you are there, any questions. Yeah, I did get 1 question that came in the road killer from the south end. Right there. I'm sorry, go ahead. Yes. Okay. Yeah, the road, the road killer has it from the south end of this project to 35 in bad shape all the time. Who's in charge of that section of that roadway and which we'll see even more use now that the on-ramp from 170 to 35 is permanently closed. I can put you in touch with our, I can get the public works. We want to maintain the roads. I'm in capital kind of capital delivery. This is Raul. Yeah. Oh, this is, excuse me. This is Raul Lopez. He's my boss, my boss, the head of arterials in our group. Yeah, good evening. I'm the engineer manager that oversees these type of projects, the arterial affairs. So for, for maintenance of roadways, we can refer that to our maintenance division and they can take a look and put it in schedule. I can't tell you what that schedule is going to be, whether it's going to be, you know, six months a year. I couldn't tell you that that's a different division, but we'll forward the, the concern to our maintenance division. Great. I have another, another question that came in for the protect stops and for city. The biggest concern in the area remains closing the ultra this to crossing at 170 without giving us a Westport crossing. Westport does not exist on the north side of 170 and with the property owner continuing to build where the road would be to go. We need another crossing besides beach when all this is said and done. Have there been any progress on that? This is Raul again. We are aware of that. We are still a stunning just to how those two buildings got permitted, I believe, by the county. There, there, we have no plans at one time. There was a conversation that a developer was going to basically buy the properties out and go in here with the city to, to redevelop that. The, that area, whether the two buildings are, but that doesn't, it hasn't panned, panned out. So we, we, at this point, we're still wondering how we're going to extend a Westport Parkway to provide a different access. What about truck traffic? Is it allowed on this new roadway to get to 35? If it, I'm not, I'm not certain whether this is a commercial route or not, but I mean, standard trucks, yes, it will be allowed. I'm not sure if semis will be allowed. I'm not sure if it's, I doubt if it's a commercial route. So if it's not a commercial route, semi should not be on the, on the route. But we'd have to verify that. Currently trucks are not supposed to be on Keller has let from all to visit a beach, but they use it all the time. So we forward that concern to the police department for enforcement. We'll just have to, we'll just have to forward the concern again. And we just, can we discuss the right away issue at the one end? Is that something we have any detail on that we could share? Is it the right away at the south, southeast then for south question? Right. I don't want to, yeah, I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want to. Yeah, that's a. We're dealing with the property owner. Yeah, we're not, we're not at liberty to discuss. By the way, I think we reason to be. It won't be a problem, but we hope so. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead. Bradley, could you confirm that? Did you say ponderosa is going to be completely closed during the entire construction period? Brad, do we have Jackson on the call? About that. Is Jackson construction. No, no, I don't think so, but. Until until it won't go anywhere until right until. It's all connected anyway, but on Westport Parkway. Yeah, so. I think parts is constructed completely what ponderosa. Maybe we could open it northbound as soon as we could, but yeah. I think we need to work with Jackson to, to. You know, keep it open while they're constructing the through lanes and then tie, tie to it. Once, once the through lanes are constructed and also. The stuff out yet when we need to go in that with Jackson, we don't want to close it for 8 months. Well, this is Jacob maze that is correct. The assumption is that ponderosa will open during phase 2 and I apologize for my cat and his horrible timing. Ponderosa will reopen after they construct phase 1 and northbound traffic to the altavista slash Westport Parkway roundabout will be enabled during phase 1. Basically, we're going to construct the entire road between just shy of the altavista or sorry, the beach street and Keller Hazlett roundabout. And then we'll come back and make those tie ins that would necessitate the closure of Keller Hazlett. So. So we're probably talking a couple of weeks to 3 weeks. Yes, for those the phase 2 improvements, which are those connections to Keller has both the temporary stub out and the ultimate connection at the roundabout. Okay. Yeah, we don't want to close it. The entire 8 months that would be that's that's the. You know, the neighborhood's secondary access to. Um, they have a 70 so. Yes, sir. That's kind of our overall phasing and I think that's up for discussion in terms of how long ponderosa is ultimately closed. Yeah, we'll we'll discuss it with the contractor. Appreciate it, Jacob. We do have a couple more questions coming in. Will landscaping be provided in the mediums? Yes, it will. It will be, it will be what organic, right? Jacob, can you grass and it will not be, it will not be ornamental or there will not be any trees or ornamental landscaping in the mediums will be stamped concrete up to certain points and it'll just be solid like a typical median. It's going to be a standard median. Yeah. And they're solid grass. Great. Can you put the, um, can you put the slide back up and have this construction schedule on it again? Please. Thank you. Also, do we know, uh, will the speed limit? We'll do not to speed it will be on this segment once it's complete. It'll be 35 miles an hour in accordance with the city of Fort Worth's master thoroughfare plan. Do you know, um, do we know approximate timing per phase. Of construction. I don't, I can't say that we, we have that. Nailed down the significant workers in phase 1. So I imagine the bulk of the time is during that period, but. Um, this is a nice green field project. There's really very little to inhibit the contractor. And it could go very quickly. So we normally get with the contractor very early in the project and the schedule together that. Both sides can live with, and then we would know more of that. So, um, sorry, I don't have that exact answer for you. It says right away dependent. What does that mean exactly? Have you all accumulated all the right away or are there still some to be? Um, yeah, we still have a, uh, we're working out a piece of the right away that we do not own yet. We're working on getting access to that. And we expect it to be not expected not to inhibit the schedule, but hopefully. And so, say, if this January assumes that the right away will be acquired without too much delay. So, we anticipate being able to start construction even without the right away in other areas. If that would change, we would notify the neighborhood. Okay. Thank you. I have a question. Go ahead. Yeah, this Mario. So, with this new construction, can we expect the traffic. Coming through Ponderosa to reduce. Because that has been an issue people coming through. Ponderosa through Dov ranch and lasso to go into the other side over there. I'm not sure that the. That the traffic would reduce. Um, I'm not sure if I can speak to that exactly. It will be more efficient. Um, hopefully with this new. Configuration, but I think that this project was. Well, the overall construction of the project will help the flow in the of the traffic in the whole area. And perhaps that will contribute, but I guess I don't have any statistics for you about Ponderosa ranch traffic. Um, I don't believe we don't believe the improvements will reduce the traffic on Ponderosa. Ponderosa is one of the entry points to the subdivision to the north. And now to be says the other entry point. So this is just the connector between the existing 2 roundabouts and that will. Increase capacity between those 2 points. But traffic going north or south and Ponderosa. We don't believe it will impact that. Those numbers. Um, personally, as somebody that lives in the neighborhood, I think it will impact the traffic. I think it's probably going to decrease it some because the people who live on the back part of the neighborhood. Bandera ranch and desert Mesa and everything beyond those roads. I think they're going to find it just as easy to take our current roundabout over on the news to the new section of roadway. Instead of zigzagging through the back like they do now. That's my expectation too. Yeah, I mean, I can't prove that, but I certainly would expect people to get used to that. You're saying they would come down from the road now instead. No, I'm saying they wouldn't because now some of them cut through Ponderosa to get back over there to Keller has led. Because otherwise I have to go almost all the way to the traffic light at 170 to do that. But once there's the round, we have the current roundabout in our neighborhood. And once the 2 are connected, I don't see any reason to cut back through houses. To get up to that roadway. It would be a longer route. Okay, yeah. Then going down loss spurs coming up to our roundabout and cutting over that would make much more sense. Except for the people who live on Ponderosa and the roads that are off of Ponderosa. But right now, a lot of people who don't live on those roads are using Ponderosa and dov ranch. I see. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. That makes sense. We'll see what happens. Yeah. I'm on the right. Yeah, I think it'll help you, but we'll see. See anything else in chat. So, if anyone else has any questions or comments, feel free to unmute. And we can answer or discuss as needed. This section looks great to me. This is Patty Phipps in Lost Creek Ranch. But again, our huge concern is that other segment. That doesn't exist yet that would connect to 170. I know you've got a 170 person on the call and. I think we're just most concerned that we have some other way out of here to cross the highway. Other than beach, which is on not even in our neighborhood. So. I don't know who's who's actually coordinating getting something done about that, but. Something needs to be done about that. Like I said before, the city is aware. Of the of the issue and the concern. And we're looking at different ways and we, you know, we've been. Coordinating with text on possible ways to. Make another point point of access, but that's all in. You know, it's still in the, in the planning stages and the throwing ideas. Okay, thank you. Sure. I do have 1 more question when you have the picture here where you've got the new ponderosa kind of straight out. And the old ponderosa, I guess you're just going to tear it up. Is what's that land right there zone for? Like, could we be looking at a convenience store or something coming into that piece of land or. On either side of ponderosa. On the side that's not by the park. So the, the Southwest side, I guess. Or Northwest side between the apartments and. Yeah, so the piece immediately to the right of the beach street roundabout. Yeah, I don't recall off the top of my head, what his zone, but. The owner of that property is the same owner. As that single family dwelling at the end of ponderosa on the. Okay, it's all it's all 1 ownership. Yeah, because those houses right there, I think are the ones that are most concerned about what happens behind them. Correct. Yeah, I don't recall what it's owned. And you said construction is. Oh, sorry. Sorry, that's the zone to a 5, but it is encumbered by that. A 5 is a residential single family house very similar to what y'all have in lost bars and lost creek. But it does have the issue of the overhead transmission lines being located on the southern portion of its property. Right. And you said constructions only during the daylight hours is that like 7am, 6am. 736 correct. 736 Monday through Friday. Okay. On on on occasions, the contractor, if they need to speed up construction for for any reason, they might ask to work on a Saturday, but they have to leave the city now. In advance, and it would be 9, 9 through 5. If they were to work on Saturday, but that's not the rule. That's the exception. On the other side of ponderosa between the park and us where you've got like the new park sidewalk coming out to meet the roadway sidewalk. Is that field. Are you buying all of it for the right away or are the people that own it now still going to own part of that? Or is that going to become more park or. Just an empty field. Do you know. Are you chucking south east of the roadway of the proposed roadway. Right where you're pointing. Yeah. I don't have access to the, I don't have video. So, you know, dove ranch, all those houses that are backing on to the field currently. So, the area where you're just talking about with the power lines is on 1 side of ponderosa. I'm talking about the other side, which is the field between ponderosa and our current park. So what's going to become of that piece of land once this roadways built. So that's still private land. Yeah, it's not. It's not. It's not going to be a park. It's still private land. Okay. So it won't be part of the right away. Right. And I think I believe. Jacob, you correct me if I'm wrong, but that's still zone a 5 correct. Between ponderosa and the park. Yes, sir. That is zone a 5 there. So all of that land that's vacant between the park and the new roundabout of be street is zoned a 5. Okay, so somebody might build a house like right next to the park or something. Correct. For many houses, because a 5 is for minimal size is 5,000 square feet per lot. So they can build. You know, maybe a row of houses. Okay. Yeah. So, basically, we're going to have a better connector better than killer haslets. No plans for care has it at all. Not currently. No color has it. Not one time there was a discussion to close it. But that. We decided on that idea. And so it's going to remain open. It's going to connect Westport Parkway. Not the way connects today. Where it connects, it looks like it's not going to cross the parkway. So you're only going to be able to go right. Yes, that's correct. That ought to cut down on traffic. I don't understand the point of that segment then really. Well, it's access to that to those lands that are adjacent to them. Okay. Yeah. So we should have fewer people, hopefully coming into our neighborhood and not coming all the way to the roundabout. Like currently that immediate turn and go on to killer has it, but now there would be no point because they can't turn left from there. That'll reduce those left turns that are made on killer has it from south out of the Vista. Right. Because they might as well go to the out of the Vista roundabout and then turn southwest. If they're going to. By 35 or. Right. I don't know yet. Yeah. Do you have a start date in mind for next month or is that still kind of up in the air. I am shooting for the middle of April. So, I mean, as soon as I can get a reconstruction meeting scheduled and then that doesn't mean the contract will be out there immediately. But we can basically get everything set up for him and begin the project. So. I'm hoping for by the end of April for sure. So. I don't have that day scheduled yet, but. Great. Not only. Yeah, ordinarily we have the pre construction meeting with contracts for 1st, and then we have this community meeting so that we can bring the contractor to this meeting to. It helps us with that kind of information, but this time is we did it the other way around just to so we could expedite the community meeting so that we could start construction sooner. So, can you explain that little piece in green coming off the new. For lands to kill us. Let that's. Just a small connection there. No, all the way close to the 1st. Yeah, that that 1. Yeah. It's basically this part of the road will be no more right. So it's just going to take this road and. Make us will make a stop sign here with stop intersection. And so we'll have to turn right and looks there's a VLF turn lane on this. Here so people can. Go on to and then. Or, or this way, so go ahead. Sorry. Oh, okay. I see what you say. Yeah. Yes, sir. And the reason that that is shaded green, it probably lost some context because this was from another exhibit, but the green colors indicate indicative of asphalt paving. Whereas the yellow shade is indicative of concrete paving. So that's why you have the different colors and doesn't provide any less service. It's just a different surface. Thank you all for doing this. Well, I, any, if there, thank you for attending. We appreciate it. Any other questions. We don't mean to hold everybody if you're. If you've got what you need, I can put up the. The contact slide again. If you think of anything later. That's my address and contact information there. If they're going to be, you want to post the video of the meeting for those who can attend. Yes, I think we posted on the project website. Yes, it'll be on our, it'll be on our city's YouTube channel and we'll have a link to that on the project page. So you, and anybody who was unable to attend can watch. Do you have the projects? What page website address somewhere on here? Or how do we find that page? I will, I will, I'll give you the link here in just a second. Great. Thanks. I believe in general, you can go. If you're looking for any other projects as well, there's a. I believe it's on the bottom of the fort worth. Texas.gov site. There's a link to projects. And. I'm not mistaken. It might be under the TPW. Page, but there's a link to projects and then you can find. All the projects that were currently handling so. In general. I'm just going to try to get the, this link I guess here. So. Well, interestingly enough, I'm not finding the link. I know it's there because I created it. It's not there. Patty, for some reason it's not showing up. The easiest thing to do would be when you go to the city's website, just search Westport and it should pop up. Obviously not tonight because for some reason it's not there. So I have to look into that. I can also email it to you. I think I saw an email coming from you. Yeah, I have, I have Patty's email address. We'll try to get it to you. I read the note here. That'd be great. Thank you. I tried searching for it and I couldn't find it. Unless there's any other questions I'm. I'm thinking we might adjourn. Unless anybody else has anything. So, again, I appreciate your attendance and. And, and your attention. So, and your patience. So. Hope you all have a good night. And hopefully we'll have this project on rolling here shortly. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.