Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a design contract with Burgess and Niple, Inc., for the Roadway Improvements - Downtown Action Plan project. This project is being designed to implement concepts from the 2010 Downtown Columbus Strategic Plan. The concepts include providing on-street parking on High Street, converting Front Street to two-way operation north of Broad Street, reducing the number of travel lanes on Broad Street and including complete streets concepts, evaluating the one-way pairs for complete streets concepts, and reviewing on-street parking throughout downtown.
Several of the tasks associated with this project have been completed. Parking meters have been added to High Street, which now allows parking during off-peak hours. Front Street and Marconi Boulevard are currently being designed to be converted to two-way, which will include new signals and upgrades to the Municipal Campus. Analysis has confirmed the ability to install bicycle facilities on Broad Street between High Street and Washington Boulevard. Analysis is continuing on evaluating the current parking restrictions on many of the streets in downtown. Data collection has begun on an update of the Bicentennial Bikeway Plan and the Thoroughfare Plan.
This modification allows for the continuation of previously approved work and adds additional work which may include, but is not limited to: Development of complete streets concepts for the Third Street and Fourth Street corridors, stakeholder meetings, and design of the concepts on the corridors to be included in a scheduled urban paving project; finalization of parking and bikeway recommendations for downtown, analysis of Spring Street and Long Street for potential improvements and modifications, and coordination with the Scioto Greenways and Scioto Peninsula projects.
Original amount of this contract: $500,000.00 (Ord. 1398-2011, EL012184)
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