 Got a pretty good crowd and I'll start off this little slow. Looks like we still got a few people jumping on. The meat of this will be about 5 or 10 minutes later. So, I think this will work out. And Laura, have you already started the recording? Yes, we did. All right. Perfect. All right. Good evening. Sorry. Good evening, everyone. So this is the. Public meeting for construction of Keller Hicks Road. This is specifically for Keller Hicks going from. Lorne way to 377. So, I'll go through and show you all what we're building. Show you how. Our phasing for the construction. Talk about how long we're looking for construction. Some of the. Some of the things you keep an eye out for during construction and. Go through there, then we'll open it up at the end for questions. And then I'll have my contact info at the end. And yeah, feel free to contact me via email or phone afterwards. There's no issue there and I'll, I'm the type that'll usually just rather email someone afterwards and. Talk to them then if you are a property owner along the road and haven't talked to you specifically about this construction. Feel free to contact me via email and I'll work with you on specific details. And I know there's few people I've seen jump on that we've been working with in the past and. I'll just work with you 1 on 1 on those issues. But specifically, this is Keller Hicks from Lorne way to 377 and my name is Mitch 8 and we're city foot worth and I'll be the. City project manager on this project. So our project team, it'll be myself we have. Jason Bradley on board is our inspector and we've got a whole inspection team supporting him as well. This is a joint project city of Keller and I'll show you later just. We're kind of our project splits between city of Keller and city foot worth, but. It'll all be done by 1 contractor and we're just splitting up the funds on how we pay for it. City of killer contact be Chad Barti. But feel free to just contact me if you have any specific questions and. I'll I'll work with Chad and or forward them over to him if it's a specific issue on. City killer part of the project or property. Multitex our design engineer on the project and we can contracting is our contractor. We got a really great contractor on this. We've worked with McMahon in the past and they produce a really good product and they do a really good job of working with us to keep things safe and. Basically is easy as it can be on the public. This will be a pretty difficult project to build. For the public to keep driving on, so I'll show you kind of some hurdles that we're working through on that and then. We'll keep you updated as we go along with the construction and I'll give you a heads up of what this is going to look like going in. This is funded versus a few different sources. It's kind of a different project, but. So one of our original 2018 bond projects. It's kind of grown into working with city of color. And I'll show you kind of where city killer gets involved, but they contributed to this project and then we have a few other sources. Kind of filling in the gaps to help make sure everything gets constructed. And we don't have to take any important aspects out. So the improvements you should see come in. It's a two lane asphalt road there today. So anyone who hasn't driven a road. And then it's going to a three lane concrete road. So basically one lane each direction with the center turn lane. All the drainage that you see out there getting today. Today that's in the ditch. It'll be collected in the in the curb gutter. And taken to a culvert that will be upgrading out there. The 10 foot shared use path sidewalks. So that's going to be a great improvement. I've seen some people out there walking along the ditch or the side of the road. So I know that's it's going to be well used. And I'm sure everyone's going to really appreciate that once it's built. We're going to prove the drainage collection out there is discussed. No, we had a pretty big rain of it out there or throughout the city about a month ago. I hadn't heard any issues out there on certain flooding. But there are a couple areas. There is one area where we have a culvert that'll take it out of the flood zone. So in a big rain event, this road will not have any water overtopping in the future. So it'll be a great improvement. And then we're also doing some illumination improvements out there, as well as adding a traffic signal at Katie road and killer Hicks. Also, as part of this project is we are improving the railroad crossing that goes over the tracks between Katie road and 377. And I'll talk about that more details move forward. So as part of the improvements we're talking about, go to a three lane road. So basically, we should expect to see just a normal three lane road, 12 foot lane, center turn lane. And then we'll tie back into existing pavement at Lauren Way. We do have a future project coming that is in the stages of getting final design. And we'll start moving some franchise utilities on that project that goes between Lauren Way and Park Vista. But this construction project is strictly between Lauren Way and 377. So basically we're, you've seen the past year or so, we've been moving all those overhead electric poles. You'll start seeing that on the rest of killer Hicks going forward and start seeing our contract to get out there and start building a road. So we pretty exciting. So as we get to Katie road, we'll have a couple of turn lanes. Obviously, if you've driven the road, you see how close the railroad tracks are to Katie road. So that'll be pretty short turn lane. The putting the new sidewalk out there, putting the traffic signal at Katie road, it's going to be worked in with the railroad crossing. So if you're used to seeing how signal works when the train's going, it's going to look pretty similar to that. A new feature out there. It's going to be pretty nice is the sidewalk goes across the tracks. So we have some features there of how the sidewalk crosses and that'll be a nice little improvement as well. The city killer limit. So our city limit line is kind of unique around this area. It goes like right through the middle of the intersection. So city killers paying for all our improvements going across the railroad tracks. And then we're splitting that traffic signal costs 50, 50. And then a city for worse paying for everything going to the West. But we're all building it with one contractor. And so you don't have to wait for a separate contractor to come out there and build the rest of it. This is kind of what it looks like going up and down Katie road. So some more turn lane improvements. But for the most part, we're just tying into Katie road. As soon as we end those left turn lands. And then basically as we go across the tracks, we'll be tying into the existing pavement. And that existing intersection at 377 will remain the same. So if you've seen improvements to other traffic signal crossings, which you'll expect to see on this is we'll be working with those arms that cross the road and block traffic will also be changing the grade on this. So a lot of times when we work on those railroad crossings, they were done a long time ago. And this is like a giant speed hump as you go over the railroad tracks. And when we go back and redo, we're basically changing the grade of the road. So it actually comes out pretty level with the railroad. So part of what you'll expect to see is that railroad crossing on both sides of the road, the road on both sides of the railroad crossing, you'll see that come up. And then you'll also see the grade change at Katie road a little bit as we have to carry that profile change and raise the level of Katie road a little bit. So as you go across the tracks in the future, when construction is all done, it should be a nice smooth crossing. So it'll be pretty nice in the end as well. Some unique parts of this that you should be aware of as we go through our phasing is there are aspects of when we work on the railroad that have to be done by their specific railroad contractor. So our contractor will be able to work on everything, up to like five feet of the railroad tracks. And then we have to coordinate some items with their contractors. So there are some phasing of this that'll be completely dependent on when their contractor is available and they have not given us a specific timeline yet. So I have some items I'll talk about of how we phase this, but just know that as we work on the railroad crossing, that'll become something that we'll get the word out and make everyone aware of it. But it's something I can't give a specific date to is at the moment. And that's just kind of something we have to work with when we work with these railroad crossings. So the phasing on this, when we were in the middle of, so when we were working on the project for a while on this, the plan was just close it down because as you've seen out there, it's a very narrow right away. It's pretty difficult to keep two lanes of traffic open while they're trying to build any of these lanes. But there's a few businesses along here that, and some other aspects that we need to keep open. So it's going to be closed at times to build the road. And then when it's open, it's going to be difficult to go through. So my advice to everyone that doesn't need to drive on Color X would be just avoid it during construction when you're able to. And then so it's going to be pretty difficult to go through when we start construction. So our first big thing that's going to impact everyone is there's a culvert, a pretty sizable culvert right in the middle of the project. So the street name at the moment, it's Buckhead intersection. If you've driven through there, it's basically that new intersection that was built for the homes on the north side of the road. There's a pretty massive culvert that we're installing along there, and we're going to need to close down Killer Hicks when we build that. And that'll be one of the first items we work on. So what we will plan on be doing is we're going to close it at that intersection. And there's just a few businesses and we're coordinating with them between the Buckhead intersection and Katie Road. So expect that to be closed in late January and expect that to take about three months. We've got a really great contractor, so if he's got ways to speed things up, he's going to be looking into doing that. But expect that to just not be able to travel on as we start construction in spring. And we'll get some advanced notice out there, so you should see a message board or some sort of sign letting y'all know when any of these closures start. And then any of y'all that have certain businesses along the road, just shoot me an email. And I will make sure you guys are all tipped up to date and I can work with you on producing anything that will help with you and your customers and clients. So expect us to do that. And then there's some points where we're going to be able to keep traffic on Killer Hicks open. And that's going to be basically after he gets our culvert bill and gets a lot of this pavement built and open to traffic. We're going to basically build the rest of Killer Hicks half and half. And the same thing with this is it's pretty limited right away. So it's just going to be one lane of traffic open. So it's going to be one lane, one way traffic. And the way we're going to phase it is it's going to be one way going westbound. So away from the railroad crossing. So it'll be one way away from the railroad crossing. And the plan on that is we don't want to send people towards the railroad crossing and have it be one way traffic and then have the railroad be caught closing down the road and people have nowhere to go. So that's basically what we're looking at on that. And then after we get a lot of the Killer Hicks road built we'll be kind of at the mercy of when the railroad lets us know of when their contractor's available. At the moment it kind of looks like it might be the summer. But he's been contacting us lately and giving us different dates. So we're kind of waiting to see a moment with them and see how this works. But when we get to the railroad it's the same issue there it's pretty narrow crossing. So we're just going to have to close down the Killer Hicks crossing. And that'll be another crossing that takes about three months to build. We might get tricky and do it a little faster. But expect at least three months. And basically what we'll be doing for any proposed detours is we'll be advising everyone to use the Golden Triangle and Timberland crossings. As well as when we do any closures on Killer Hicks we'll be detouring traffic on Golden Triangle and Timberland. Golden Triangle is the closer one but I know that one already has some pretty heavy traffic. And most of the people who live in the neighborhood won't want to take Golden Triangle. But Timberland is one of our newly opened railroad crossings and got four lanes of traffic up there. So that would be my advice is anyone that lives in the neighborhood just plan on using Timberland a lot between January and the summer. And we'll eventually get Killer Hicks back to working normal again. And it'll be a lot easier to travel up and down after we get a bill. I need any issues on Katie Road basically phasing it where we'll be able to keep one lane of traffic open but it'll be one way southbound. And same thing on that if you can avoid Katie Road at all possible at all that would be advisable. And just plan on using Park Vista or 377 to go north and south for a while until we can get to that point. But yeah it'll be a little difficult for anyone who needs to drive through this construction zone before it's all completely built. So that would be my advice is just plan on using other roads for a while. But we'll have when we're able to keep traffic open there'll be a path but it'll be very slow and it'll probably take just as much time as if you just take other roads for a while. And that's basically what we're looking at. So a lot of that pavement anything outside of working on that railroad construction I would expect a lot of pavement to be built by sometime in the summer. And then we'll see when the railroad's ready to work on that crossing that'll dictate a lot of the pavement being able to be built around there. And then so that'll be the main thing I know everyone will be interested in and when can we drive on the new pavement again. And then we'll have a lot of other items like illumination and traffic signals to install but that'll be all after the pavement's built and open the traffic again and we'll just be we'll be phasing and you know flagging y'all as needed as we build those items but it won't be as much of a hassle that's when we're trying to build the pavement because yeah we just can't keep two-way traffic on these roads while we're tearing them up and rebuilding them. And yeah that covers most of it. I know there's a lot of detailed stuff everyone will be interested in on when exactly some of these closures will happen but expect mid-to-late January to start seeing some signs being put up of the closure about to happen on Keller-Hicks and then expect about three months till we're able to open up any traffic again and then I will keep everyone updated on when that railroad crossing is going to be closed. But yeah that's pretty much the whole thing but if you have any questions start putting them in the chat box and then if you have anything specific especially if you're along the road or you have a business along the road just shoot me an email which here's my contact info at the end and anyone feel free to contact me. But yeah if you have any real specific questions on how this impacts your property or your business just let me know via email and I'll start contacting everyone individually and we'll make sure everyone's kept up to date. I'll see. So let's see first question so are the homes being built providing funds for the project? Yeah in a way it's kind of a real detailed way of how the residential construction gets added to it but yeah it's part of the impact fees that come in to help build the roads that comes from local development so yeah that's where they're adding in to help build for the road. So when will the improvements be made on 377 side of the tracks? So yeah basically that will happen as we work on the railroad crossing so it's all going to be part of the same project. We just as soon as the railroad tells me hey our contractor is ready to work on such and such date we'll get that information out to everyone but at the moment it kind of looks like it's summer until he tells us otherwise. So will color portion grade be redone? Yeah so any pavement on that color half where we're working on the railroad it's basically what we're looking at is these limits here. So yeah we'll be working on a pavement adjacent to some of those businesses but if you represent one of those businesses feel free to contact me and me and Chad with the city color we'll get back to you and talk to you about any specific details that you might be concerned with. I think he's been talking to a lot of those businesses already so if you haven't heard from us just let us know and we'll get back to you. So any plans on any plans on fixing Katie Road between Keller Hicks and Golden Triangle? So Katie Road isn't part of our master thoroughfare plan. It's not necessarily part of this project. We have the turn lanes that we're building as part of this but if there's any specific issues out there such as potholes or anything we have a new method of getting those issues out to us and let's see. So Laura, Terry you probably know this better than I do but it's the easiest way to google and find that website. You got one by FW app, Mitch? Yeah the Fort Worth app but I know there's a website that's easy to use as well but we have an app that's called the Fort Worth app that you can download to your phones you can just take a picture or upload a street light out or pothole or something and it'll it's all set up where it'll go to the right person within the city to know how to fix that and then they'll if you put in your contact info they'll get back to you on oh cool we got a contractor ready to go work on it in a couple weeks we'll get it fixed by this time and they'll follow up with you to make sure everything was addressed but yeah if there's any specific issues on Katie Road feel free to put them into that that system on the uh if you can't figure it out just shoot me an email and um I'll be on that one but it is a pretty great website that was put together that'll help report issues sorry Mitch to report issues they can either download my FW app from you know whether it's a play store or um you know the what is it iTunes store and or they can call um 817-392-1234 that's the city's number that pushes through a um the right menu to report issues so either one of those two forms and there's a Fort Worth there's the website too um always that might be it just Fort Worth report issues and I think it's the first hit and I always refer everyone to this because it's way easy so um because all you have to do is put in the name of what your but the issue is and it'll narrow it down to the the right thing and then once you get it to the right thing it's all set up to go to the right person so yeah so if there's a puddle issue or the striping is just gone or there's something else going on um y'all can always report in here and uh see uh mowing issues I always report refer everyone to here so um it doesn't look like it's been mowed in the any up months or whatever um you can always put it in here anywhere throughout the city and it'll it'll get to the right person it's a pretty nice little setup that whoever came up with it uh let's see see will the new road be better quality it seems that the cement does much better the asphalt keeps crumbling so yes uh this project will be a concrete road so any new pavement that we're putting down will be concrete there's a short little portion next to the railroad crossing that the railroad tells us to put asphalt there which is like five feet so it's not it's all about it's not a long section but uh everything that we put down for new pavement will be concrete so that's uh that's a good one because yeah once we build it and open up traffic it's uh you don't have to mess with it for quite a while you don't have to deal with potholes or anything after rain events let's see so do you expect this project to be fully completed before the future project from Lauren Way to Park Vista begins uh that's a good question yes um so this will be definitely pavement wise it's going to be all built and open to traffic and I don't expect the other project to start construction before this one ends and uh if we are having issues with this I don't see any issues with delaying this getting open to traffic but if there are any issues with delaying this project um we won't start the other one until this one's complete so uh we won't have two competing projects uh messing with uh messing with y'all out there we'll uh we'll make sure we phase them correctly so yeah will the curbs and turns be redone on the Keller side specifically the northeast corner near the sign shop where trucks have had to hop the curb to turn on to killer hicks from 377 uh let's see I might have to come back to you you on that one in specific detail uh shad policy you're on board um I don't know if you know about that specific issue but we can uh we can take a look and just make sure we're uh addressing that one before we start building it Mitch this is Chad can you hear me yes so there's no pavement improvements at 377 with this project however we'll uh I'll get with our maintenance guys and take a closer look at that specific issue okay okay yeah now I see the question so this is specifically at the intersection it's not with one of the driveways so okay uh let's see do you understand the Keller Hicks road will be completed around April so most of Keller Hicks will be paved um and open to traffic by sometime in the summer so that's what I'll expect we'll have our culvert crossing and a lot of that pavement between that intersection where the homes are on the on the north end to Katie road a lot of that will be done by April or May and then we'll phase the rest of that people go back to that so a lot of this pavement will be done and open to traffic so sometime April May um around that timeline and then the rest of it going towards Lauren Way we'll have to build it half and half so that'll take a little longer I would expect sometime into summer you'll see almost all of Keller Hicks built and open to traffic uh so it'll it'll take a little time especially when we're doing concrete just because it takes a little longer to open it back up to traffic uh when we do asphalt it's usually open the next day but like one of the questions earlier asphalt might be quicker to open to traffic but uh it just it takes a lot longer to a lot more maintenance in the end so um so that's only bit downside of the concrete is it'll take a little bit more time to open to traffic but in the end it'll be a better product for y'all to drive on but yeah back to that original question between for all the killer Hicks between Katie road and Lauren Way I would expect sometime mid to late summer a lot of that's built and open to traffic again and we'll we'll keep you updated on progress along the way so there's a website uh you just just google uh killer Hicks um see if what worth it's usually one of the first hits and uh we'll keep you updated on here so I'll be updating it at least once a month and then uh this would be the best place to just go through and kind of see what what we're looking at and then if we're looking at closing the road at all you'll you should see a message board or sign out there advising all of we have a upcoming closure on a certain date and uh so you shouldn't be any instances where you're driving on a Monday and then Tuesday you should and then the road's just suddenly closed without any worrying left something out there giving a heads up of what's coming up let's see it out to the last one Mitch yeah uh yeah it's ours going down the list let's see Rusty's put that link in there for the um addressing issues and then I'll see will Katie road be expanded to three lanes at killer Hicks as well so we pull that guy up so this will be what Katie road looks like in the end so it's just at the intersection we'll see some turn lanes added but a couple hundred feet after either direction you'll see it go back down to two lanes so that'll help things out especially when the signal goes in it'll uh help move traffic a little bit I think everyone will enjoy that um man see well the intersection at Katie road closed for three months that killer Hicks is closed so what you'll expect to see is when killer Hicks is closed between uh between Buckhead and Katie road we'll keep at least one lane of traffic open that'll just be one lane going southbound so it's still going to be pretty difficult to get in and out of there um so I would I would expect just to avoid the area when as much as possible just get kind of used to taking Timberland or Golden Triangle whatever's whatever's easiest to get across the tracks but uh we will have one lane southbound only open on Katie road while we're while we're either working on killer Hicks or we're working on uh on the railroad crossing um but yeah that's just another one where it's just too narrow to keep two lanes of traffic open while we're trying to build that intersection up because probably the part of the issue is just a horizontal issue of where do you fit two lanes of traffic while you're building other pavement and then the other issue is a vertical problem of to make that road crossing at killer Hicks not be a speed hump like it is today we have to build up the Katie road intersection so that becomes an issue of uh keeping traffic on there while we're building up the grade um so that's another issue while why it's just going to be one lane of traffic open during that timeline but like I said before we got a really great contractor on this so if there's a way to user already thrown out a million ideas to me so if there's a way to speed things up and make it easier on y'all we'll uh it'll definitely be done uh so will there be flood mitigation at killer Hicks and Katie road see you're the number seven on that uh yeah so we've been working to fix any drainage issues out there uh the this so anything like that rain event that we had about a month ago um you shouldn't see any issues with the road after that uh we we designed for a 100 year storm event and I know that went a couple weeks ago or about a month ago that was pretty significant storm so um but it wasn't 100 year so we'll uh yeah you'll see any any drainage issues you've been seeing out there today a lot of that will be gone post construction what what is the uh end date of the project the final date so a lot of it's contingent on the railroad crossing on when we can do that because they originally told us it might be a year until they're out there which would have meant next fall um but they've been kind of given hence they might be done they might be able to work on that crossing quicker than that um but overall I would expect this project to take at least a year but it'll probably bleed into the spring of uh 2025 but most of that will be a lot of uh working on any illumination or traffic signal or sidewalks or something like that I would expect a lot of that pavement to be built pretty quickly by summer 2024 and then that railroad crossing will uh we're just kind of at the mercy of the railroad of when they say you can work on it during this timeline um and that'll kind of dictate when a lot of that pavement over there can be can be done so I would I would expect this time next year a lot of this to be complete um and if we're lucky with the railroad maybe a little quicker especially with all the pavement there might just be some items outside the curb so we're that we're working on so yeah that's what we're looking at uh let's see just to confirm color hicks will be closed so we have to go uh correct so I would if I would if you're used to driving color hicks especially to cross the railroad to get to 377 I would just plan on not using that as much as possible for the next six months or so between January and the summer um I know it's a huge inconvenience but uh it's I would just plan on acting like this the road is closed well we'll technically have it open at certain times um just to make sure these businesses have are able to get in and out of their properties but for the most part this is gonna be a very difficult area to get through once the contractor starts working out there so I would just plan on using park vista 377 timberland and golden triangles as much as possible see is the width of the radaway limiting when the right lane turns um not as much as just uh having a turn lane going across the tracks isn't something they like doing as well but uh for the most part that turn lane is kind of is what it is but there is a lot of that's coming into how we work with railroad on that crossing uh I see can anyone tell the railroad to stop running during the day um the short answer no um so we've uh yeah they have their radaway to use the railroad as needed um so uh when we work on the tracks we'll be working coordinating with them on how that gets done around them but uh as we're just shutting them down for a few months and letting us work on everything that yeah we're we're not uh allowed to do that I'll see during the closure in uh and southbound only lane at katie will katie be marked closed going northbound uh yeah so we're working on the details of how that'll be signed at the moment but for the most part you'll be able to get in and out of the the gym right there but north of that gym um it's going to be closed to through traffic so you'll see some signage being put up around there and that's basically what will be advised and everyone is um and get in and out of katie to get to that gym but after that it'll be closed and again this is my contact info uh it's on that website as well stuff you don't get it here um you can always just you know google colorix city of foreworth and uh my contact info comes up there uh we'll keep this updated as we move along and feel free to contact me anytime um and yeah if y'all have one of those businesses out there or property you're concerned about that it's adjacent to the project uh just shoot me a message and we'll uh we'll get what you want on one and I'll work out any details we need to or any issues during construction and that's that's it from my end um so I'll stick around in case any more questions you get thrown into the chat but uh it looks like I think we're able to answer everyone's