City of Waterloo, IA Shaulis Road, 5 Nov 2021

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From YouTube: City of Waterloo Complete Streets Update, November 5, 2021

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AECOM gives project updates to the Complete Streets Advisory Committee.
The presentation gives update on the below projects:
2:20 University Avenue
5:21 LaPorte Road/Hess Road Corridor Study
10:50 US HWY 63 Enhancements Construction
13:29 Shaulis Road Trail
15:00 4th/5th/6th Streets One-Way Conversation Study
16:24 Center for the Arts
17:00 Commercial Street

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Is doug schindle.

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And I am the operations manager for aecom and waterloo. We are excited today to give an update on several ongoing projects being developed or under construction in the city of waterloo. That will have a significant impact in our community. We would like to thank mayor hart and the city council members for all of their input, support and cooperation throughout the development of each of the projects we will be discussing today. We would also like to thank several city staff and departments, including noel anderson and the planning development development department, jamie knudsen in the engineering.

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Michelle weidner in the finance department, paul hudding in the leisure services department and randy bennett and the public works department. We'd also like to thank the complete streets advisory committee for all of their past and ongoing input and collaboration, as well as the many stakeholders involved in each of the projects.

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Finally, we want to thank the citizens of waterloo for their input during development of the projects, as well as their patients during construction of the projects.

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We will be reviewing seven ongoing projects today. The first project is the university avenue project which is nearing completion and was open to through traffic from cedar falls to highway 63 on october 21st, with enhancement, work being completed over this fall and finishing next spring. The second project we'll be discussing will be the laporte road, hess road corridor study and design, extending from charlottes road to u.s 218 and the next major corridor reconstruction project in the city.

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The third project will be the us, 63 enhancement, construction from newell street to washington street, which will complete the work on this major corridor improvement throughout the city. The fourth project will be the charlottesville trail construction project from cedar terrace drive to the cedar valley, nature trail. The fifth project will be the fourth fifth and sixth one-way to two-way conversion study starting near east high school and finishing near six corners.

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The sixth project we will be discussing will be the updated entrance and parking facilities to the center for the arts and finally, the second and last project that we will be discussing today will be the commercial street roadway and enhancement project in downtown michelle sweeney and mark durban. Two senior project managers from aecom will be discussing the projects today, michelle will begin by discussing the university avenue project, so michelle take it away.

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The university avenue project has substantially completed phases, one and two with minor punchless items remaining. These minor punch list items may require lane closures next year, as well as phase three's work to complete landscaping and enhancements.

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The enhancements remaining are the gateway, features, intersection, markers and bridge enhancements.

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The university avenue enhancements are shown here in the following pictures: the middle two are of the bus, stops and turn turnouts that have been installed along the project, along with the trail head on the lower left. That is at the intersection of both the university avenue recreational trail and the sergeant road recreational trail and the lower right shows the intersection markers that you will find at the major intersections.

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Here you can see the renderings that were originally proposed along the corridor and the existing enhancements that are present today.

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The gateway features along the corridor are going to be at various locations, including the one shown in the lower left at fletcher and university. There's also going to be gateway, features at 63, green hill and midway.

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The roundabout here shows the cut out of the logo of waterloo, along with backlit letters and uplighting, as shown in the picture in the upper right. The rendering shown in the lower right is what was proposed. The roundabout here includes 1 300 plantings.

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University avenue enhancements will include a hannah family monument and kiosk center. This will be posted in front of mcdonald's on the south side. Next to the bus, stop.

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Under construction is the wave railing for the green hill, road bridge and blackhawk creek bridge on the university avenue corridor. The wave railing will include led lighting that will change colors and brick monuments with lighting at the top. Here you can see the night time rendering of the led lights that will be ran through the wave railing. This wave railing will include changeable, led colors.

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We would like to take a moment to thank you for your support. The university avenue reconstruction project was a community effort and we appreciate everybody's patience during construction. The lower left shows mayor hart with previous city engineer, eric thorson and current city engineer, jamie knudsen, along with a photo at the lower right of the ribbon, cutting.

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The laporte road, hess road corridor study and preliminary design, the north boundary of this project, starts at 218 slip ramp and continues south past still: smith, plaza past ridgeway, past san martin college square, mall, koa and we'll complete at shullas road, just north of the new roundabout.

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Here you can see the project goals for the laporte road hesse road project. We will provide a safe and efficient corridor access to business, businesses and residents, encourage economic development and revitalization, provide accommodations for all users and enhance the corridor through street lighting and aesthetics.

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The corridor study in preliminary design has completed the traffic study. We are finalizing our corridor report and will present to stakeholders our recommendations in december, followed by the city, council and public input meeting in january of 2022.

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Our final design of segment. One will begin this coming winter, with construction and iowa dot bid, letting in october of 2022 for the corridor. We propose several different enhancements, including recreational trail along the west side, from shawless to mitchell sidewalk on the east side from just south of san martin to lockheed avenue and landscaping improvements.

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Here you can see the hess road 31 foot typical cross section. This will include, on the left hand, side the recreational trail on the right hand, side. You can see the plan view for the proposed roadway.

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This rendering shows the left turn lanes that will be added to the hesse road corridor. These improvements will improve safety and prevent rear-end collisions at conflict points such as future roadways and driveways.

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The laporte road will consist of a three-lane section from grim to ba and from plymouth to the north limits where the slip ramp starts.

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Here you can see the two-way center left turn lane. In both the plan view and 3d and again you can see the recreational trail.

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The port road will consist of a five-lane section from bop to ridgeway. This will include two lanes in each direction. With a two-way left turn lane. You can also see the recreational trail off on the left side and the sidewalk on the right.

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The picture below shows the existing conditions on the left, and the right is a rendering of what the proposed enhancements would include.

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The intersection marker would be similar to the university avenue corridor with a city of waterloo, backlit, cutout,.

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The gateway feature at san martin drive is also being proposed. The gateway feature would be again similar to the university avenue corridors with the led lighting and the wave along the top.

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The plan view of the intersection of san martin drive and laporte road shows the ornamental trees, intersection, markers and gateway feature placement.

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In addition to the enhancements we are proposing to install colored concrete crosswalks to draw driver attention to the pedestrians along the corridor.

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In addition to the intersection markers at san martin, we also propose to enhance the mitchell avenue intersection as well. You can also see the street trees that are being placed along the corridor, along with additional colored, concrete pedestrian, crosswalks.

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The project funding shown here has an estimated construction and design cost of 32 million. The city has received state swap funding, totaling 8 million and 30 000 tap funding is 151 000 for a portion of the recreational trail.

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The city is considering additional funding options such as raise grant which we have submitted an application for, and the infrastructure bill fund. Additional information will be placed on the project facebook page shown here, and the city website.

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If you have any additional comments or questions about the laporte road hesse road reconstruction project, please feel free to reach out to me, as shown here.

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U.S highway 63 enhancements this project included installation of the recreational trail highlighted in red. It completed the missing link from newell to parker and includes street trees with additional enhancements.

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The recreational trail has been completed.

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These photos highlight different sections of the corridor.

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The photo here shows the area prior to completion on the left and the completed on the right.

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Additional enhancements include pedestrian lighting and street lighting banner attachment points on bridge street lights, concrete, colored and stamped for the overpass and median interpretive siding at the intersections limestone gateway monuments and tree plantings.

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The pedestrian lining and trees are shown here.

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Interpretive panels for the prairie pathways have been included.

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The bridge monuments are under construction and anticipate completion. This year, the limestone entry columns concept shown here for the bridge on 63 over the railroad includes again the city of waterloo's cutout logo that will be backlit.

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Also on the right side is the banners proposed.

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The rendering shows the existing 63 bridge and enhancements, along with the proposed columns, the rendering here, shows the proposed enhancements. The street trees, the colored concrete, underneath the 218 overpass.

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The photos here show the existing condition prior to the construction.

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The photos here highlight the improvements that have been made underneath the bridge and the colored and stamped concrete.

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Here again, you can see a zoomed in section of the area under the 218 overpass.

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If you have any questions or comments about the highway 63 enhancements, please feel free to reach out to my email, as shown here or my office phone.

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The next project update is the shallows road trail project. The completed chalice road trail will provide a key connection to the cedar valley. Nature trail, the first of several phases of the project included construction of the trail from us-63 to the lost island water park.

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As shown on this slide, the next phases will include construction of the trail to the cedar valley, nature trail phase 2 shown in red, has just recently opened and is from cedar terrace drive to the cedar valley, nature trail phase three shown in blue is under construction and will open with the completion of the shallowest road project associated with the future lost island theme park.

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Phase 4 is in the planning phase and is seeking federal and state grants to complete this vital link to the cedar valley. Nature trail.

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These are pictures of the newly opened shallow road trail phase, 2 from cedar terrace drive to the cedar valley, nature trail.

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For questions regarding the shallows road trail projects, please contact matt, schindle with the city of waterloo or mark durban with aecom, using the contact information shown on this slide.

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The next project update is the 4th 5th and 6th streets conversion study. This is a study to possibly convert 4th 5th and sixth streets from one-way couplets to two-way traffic.

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The study also includes analyzing and comparing various alternatives such as roundabouts, bicycle, pedestrian, accommodations and other modifications.

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As part of this project, there will be a public stakeholder committee meeting coming up in december of 2021 to review alternatives and to gather stakeholder input.

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The study begins at six. Corners includes the irving elementary and church row neighborhoods on fourth street and fifth street.

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The study includes analyzing existing traffic conditions on the one-way couplets and compares those to the projected traffic conditions of the possible two-way traffic pattern. The study includes 5th street and 6th street through the downtown area. All the way to barclay street by east high school.

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For questions regarding the 4th 5th and 6th streets conversion study, please contact mark durban with aecom using the contact information on this slide.

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The waterloo center for the arts currently has phases 1 and 2 under construction. The completion of phase 1 will be completed next year, along with the completion of phase two phase, three will be pending funding here. You can see the main entrance for the waterloo center for the arts and the colored bands of payment. That will be added.

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If you have any questions or comments about the waterloo center for the arts project, please feel free to call me or email me, as shown below the commercial street project will be completing this here as well. You can see here the area in front of single speed. That's been substantially complete, along with the area remaining in front of the waterloo center for the arts.

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If you have any questions or comments about the commercial street project, please feel free to reach out to matt schindle or myself, as shown here from everyone with the city of waterloo and ecom. We would like to thank you for your time and interest in the ongoing projects.