The $5.6 million project is fully funded, with the bulk of it coming from two State Transportation Improvement Board grants totaling $4,305,216. The rest of the funds will be made up from the city’s traffic impact fees ($695,000), water fund ($498,350), sewer fund ($41,000) and Transportation Benefit District ($65,000).
The project will be broken up into two parts: Southwest Eaton Boulevard to Southwest Rasmussen Boulevard and Rasmussen to West Main Street.
The stretch from Eaton to Rasmussen requires a complete reconstruction of the roadway to replace the road’s failing base. New additions will include sidewalks on the east side, Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant ramp upgrades, planter strips, bike lanes, lighting, a travel lane in each direction and a center left-turn lane. Construction activities will include stormwater facilities and an upgrade to the water and sewer utilities infrastructure.
The stretch between Rasmussen and Main requires less work, as the first few inches of the roadway will be ground down and a new layer of asphalt will be laid on top of it. Sidewalk ADA-compliant ramps will be upgraded and some utility work will be done.
The project was originally on the schedule for this year, but a backlog of permit applications delayed that process, so the city decided to push the project back to 2017.
