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REQUEST FOR ACTION To Item Number City Council 6.3. Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by Public Works Ma 5, 2008 Tex Maurer, Public Works Director Item Description Reviewed by Consider Removal of Several Gravel Roads and One Lori ohnson, Ci • Administrator Bituminous Road Fxom the 2008 Bimminous Overlay Feasibility Reviewed by Study Action Requested Direction from the City Council as to whether ox not several gravel roads and one bituminous road should remain in the feasibility study fox the 2008 Bituminous Overlay Improvement. Background/Discussion Attached is an exhibit that shows all of the roads that have been included in the 2008 Bituminous Overlay feasibility study, as directed by the City Council. Those shown in red axe all the gravel roads that remain in the City of Elk River. The roadways shown iii green axe the bituminous roadways included in this year's overlay improvement. ~~Ve have analyzed each one of these roadways, calculating the cost of a bituminous overlay ox initial paving in the case of gravel roads versus the assessable properties benefiting from the improvement In the case of most of the gravel roads, the number of large properties adjacent to the road will not support the cost of placing a bituminous mat on the gravel roads, while trying to keep the assessment relatively close to the 2006 rate of $1,950 per unit. Given the number of large-sized parcels, some of which do not even contain a home, but axe actually farmed ar vacant, the cost per parcel to leave all of these gravel roads in the 2008 overlay improvement, would rise to well over $3,000 per unit, which is financially unfeasible. The other concern is that with the farming activities that occur in some of these outlying areas of the city, farm equipment needs to use these gravel roads, especially in the spring duxuig the weight restriction time frame. A 2-inch bituminous surface on these roads would not withstand the weight of farming activities. We are concerned that the typical paving of a gravel road that has been done in the past would break up premaruxely under this type of traffic. ~~'e have reviewed the financial implications of including all of the gravel roads in the 2008 Bituminous Overlay Improvement with Finance Director Tim Simon and City Administcatox Lori )ohnson. They concur with our recommendation that we should proceed with continuing to pave a few gravel roads with each overlay improvement. In 2008, we axe recommending that the Camp Cozy Axea, Yankton Street, and Union Street all remain in the feasiUility study, given their residential naruxe and the number of assessable units adjacent to them. We axe recommending that the remainder of the gravel roads shown on the attached exhibit be excluded from the 2008 feasibility study because of cost and the type of uses of some of them.