Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes The Director of Public Service to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for an interchange reconstruction project on the interchange at I-270 and Roberts Road on the West side of Columbus.
This project will require coordination with the City for maintenance of traffic analysis and for future pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.
This project will reconfigure the 270/Roberts Road interchange from a conventional diamond interchange to a diverging diamond interchange. The project will also replace the Roberts Road bridge deck over I-270. The project is estimated to begin construction in the summer of 2013 and be completed in fall of 2014. (FRA-270-10.16 PID 84506)
2. FISCAL IMPACT
The estimated construction cost of this project is $4,400,000.00 which will be funded by ODOT. There is no cost to the City for this project.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into agreement with the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation and to grant consent and propose cooperation with the State of Ohio for this interchange reconstruction on the interchange at Roberts Road and I-270. ($0.00)
Body
The following ordinance enacted by the City of Columbus, Ohio, hereinafter referred to as the Legislative Authority or Local Public Agency or "LPA", in the matter of the stated described project.
WHEREAS, the State has identified the need for the described project:
Reconfigure the 270/Roberts Road interchange from a conventional diamond interchange to a diverging diamond interchange. This project will also replace the Roberts Road bridge deck over I-270; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. Consent Statement
Being in the public interest, the LPA gives consent to the Director of Transportation to complete the above described project.
SECTION 2. Cooperation Statement
The LPA shall cooperate w...
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