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Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a Developer Participation Agreement with Continental Homes of Texas, L.P. for certain public improvements associated with the Turtle Creek Subdivision.
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In 2005, several phases of the Turtle Creek Village subdivision were planned and platted along A.W. Grimes Boulevard. Phases 6 and 7 of this project included the extension of Willow Way out to A.W. Grimes Boulevard. The anticipated result of this extension would be the need for an additional traffic signal at this new intersection. Staff was concerned about the growing number of traffic signals along A.W. Grimes Boulevard (with the addition of a signal at Logan in the past few years and another signal at Creek Ridge within the last year), and the chilling effect these signals will have on the ability of this arterial to move traffic through our community now and into the future.
As a result, staff developed a concept to modify the median on A.W. Grimes Boulevard so that traffic has unfettered access to and from Willow Way; however, no signalization would be necessary with these changes. This project became known as the A.W. Grimes Median Improvements Project. In 2012, utilizing funds from the then recently developed Bottleneck Program, the City contracted with Waeltz & Prete, Inc., a local engineering firm, to design these improvements.
These construction plans were completed and subsequently bid for construction, which resulted in a low bid of over $380,000. This amount vastly exceeded the budget for this project. As a result, all bids for this project were ultimately rejected at the March 28, 2013 Council meeting (R-13-03-28-I11).
Both sides of A.W. Grimes Boulevard in this area are currently being developed by Continental Homes, L.P. (dba D.R. Horton, America's Homebuilder). Recently, an opportunity presented itself to construct the median improvements in an alternative manner. Continental Homes was in the process of bidding the...
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