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Item Description Street Disruption Permit for Jackson Street and Main Street Item Number 5.3. Prepared by Scott Clark, Community Development Director Reviewed by City of Elk River REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Agenda Section Meeting Date Administration September 18, 2006 Introduction Staff is coordinating several "downtown issues" under this item which includes the following: 1) Request by Flannery Construction and CSS Builders to close a portion of Main Street from Oct.2 to October 23, 2006 (3 weeks) for utility work (See attached letter dated September 12, 2006.). 2) Request by Flannery Construction to reconfigure traffic on Jackson Street from October 30 until November 27,2006 (20 working days) in order for a crane to be sited properly to complete the framing work of the Jackson Square project (See attached letter dated September 12,2006.). 3) Discussion and direction by the City Council on a proposal to have ten parking stalls leased to the City for downtown parking needs. These stalls are located on the First National Bank's lower parking lot. A comprehensive map for all of these activities is attached. Staff also communicated these issues at the River's Edge Downtown Business Association Meeting on September 13, 2006. Discussion 1) As discussed at previous Council meetings Flannery Construction and CSS Builders have worked together to coordinate their independent utility work in order to minimize disruption time to Main Street. Per the attached letter, dated September 12, 2006, from the two companies, special efforts are being made to also minimize the time parking will be lost for the businesses along Main Street. The construction limits of the utility work will keep Main Street (from the easterly edge of the Cinema building to Parrish Ave closed for the subject time. Work being done in front of the stores will eliminate parking for a total of 8 of the total 22 days, albeit that 4 stalls will remain permanendy open and available as shown on the attached illustration. This illustration also shows how the City's park project interfaces with Main Street and the aforementioned parking. 2) As stated in past Council information memos, Flannery Construction needs to use Jackson Avenue for their crane set-up. They have worked with the Bank of Elk River to minimize the time (20 working days) that is needed for crane work from J ackson Avenue. In turn, they will then complete the work by using the Bank site for one additional week to complete their framing operation. As shown on the attached map, the crane set-up is outside of the existing fence line which, in order to S:\Community Development\Scott Clark\2006 CC memos\09 05 06 Street Distruption.doc