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Home My WebLink About04 APPROVE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR RED HILL AVENUE WIDENINGAGENDA REPORT Reviewwed.-im City Manager l Finance Director MEETING DATE: MARCH 21, 2017 TO: JEFFREY C. PARKER, CITY MANAGER FROM: DOUGLAS S. STACK, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS/CITY ENGINEER SUBJECT: APPROVE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND AUTHORIZE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS FOR THE RED HILL AVENUE WIDENING AND MEDIAN IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT FROM BARRANCA PARKWAY TO EDINGER AVENUE, CIP NOS. 70197, 70226 & 70227 SUMMARY The plans and specifications for the Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, CIP Nos. 70197, 70226 & 70227 have been prepared and the project is ready to be bid. RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council: 1. Adopt Resolution No. 17-03 approving the plans and specifications for the Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, CIP Nos. 70197, 70226 & 70227; and 2. Authorize the City Clerk to advertise to receive bids. FISCAL IMPACT Sufficient funds have been budgeted and appropriated in this Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Capital Improvement Program for the project in the Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, CIP Nos. 70197, 70226 & 70227. The engineer's estimate for the project is $5,800,000. The project is funded through a combination of sources that includes Measure M2 Regional Capacity Program (RCP), Legacy Backbone Infrastructure Fees, MCAS 2010 Tax Allocation Bonds and Community Facilities District 14-1. CORRELATION TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN The construction of Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue contributes to the fulfillment of the City's Strategic Plan Goal A: Economic and Neighborhood Development. Specifically, the project implementation of Strategy 1, which among other items, is to develop critical phases of Tustin Legacy. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND Red Hill Avenue is designated as a major arterial roadway on the Orange County Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH) and is currently six lanes with a striped median. The PM peak hour on northbound Red Hill Avenue experiences particularly heavy congestion. Plans and Specifications Approval for Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements March 21, 2017 Page 2 The project will widen the northbound side to implement a fourth through lane and install a raised median to reduce driveway cross traffic movement on Red Hill Avenue from Dyer Road/Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, thereby improving traffic flow and enhancing safety. Construction components will include roadway widening and median installation, Class Il bike lane, underground utility, street lighting, intersection improvements, traffic signals modifications, drainage systems and environmentally sustainable catch basins with low impact development bio treatment, curb and gutter, sidewalk construction, signing and striping and median landscaping featuring drought tolerant plants. The tentative schedule for construction of the project is as follows: Authorization to Advertise for Bids ......... First Legal Advertisement ...................... Second Legal Advertisement ................. BidOpening .......................................... Tentative Award of Contract .................. Tentative Start Construction ................. Estimated Completion of Construction... s . Stack, P.E. r f Public Works/City Engineer Attachment 1: Resolution No. 17-03 Attachment 2: Location Map 03/21/2017 .............................................03130/2017 ........................... . ....... ... .......04/06/2017 .............................................05/02/2017 ............................................ 05/16/2017 ............................... . .............06/19/2017 ................ ...........................01 /12/2018 SACity Counol Ilems12017 Coundl Ilems103-21-2917ftp— P&S for Red Hill Avenue Widening 6 Median IWpmvelelenl5 ( CIP Nos_ 70197, 70226 6 70227)1Agprove P85 for Red Hill Avenue Wdenmg {CIP Nos. 70197. 70226, 70227(.dou ATTACHMENT 1 Resolution No. 17-03 S RESOLUTION NO. 17-03 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA APPROVING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE RED HILL AVENUE WIDENING AND MEDIAN IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT FROM BARRANCA PARKWAY TO EDINGER AVENUE, CIP NOS. 70197, 70226 & 70227 AND AUTHORIZING ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WHEREAS, it is the intention of the City Council of the City of Tustin, California to contract for the construction of the Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, CIP Nos. 70197, 70226 & 70227; and WHEREAS, the City Engineer has presented plans and specifications for the construction of said work; and WHEREAS, on January 16, 2001, the City of Tustin certified the Program Final Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (FEISIEIR) for the reuse and disposal of MCAS Tustin. On December 6, 2004, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 04- 76, approving a Supplement to the FEISIEIR for the extension of Tustin Ranch Road between Walnut Avenue and the future alignment of Valencia North Loop Road. On April 3, 2006, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 06-43 approving an Addendum to the FEISIEIR. On May 13, 2013, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 13-32 approving the 2nd Addendum to the FEISIEIR. The FEISIEIR along with its Addendums and Supplement is a program EIR under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The FEISIEIR, Addendum and Supplement considered the potential environmental impacts associated with development on the former Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin; and WHEREAS, an environmental checklist was prepared for the proposed project that concluded no additional environmental impacts would occur from approval of the project. The Environmental Analysis Checklist concludes that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a new or increased significant effect on the environment because all potentially significant effects 1) have been analyzed adequately in an earlier EIR pursuant to applicable standards, and 2) have avoided or mitigated pursuant to that earlier EIR, including revisions or mitigation measures that are imposed upon the proposed project; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the plans and specifications presented by the City Engineer are hereby approved as the plans and specifications for: Red Hill Avenue Widening and Median Improvements Project from Barranca Parkway to Edinger Avenue, CIP Nos. 70197, 70226 & 70227 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to advertise as required by law for the receipt of sealed bids or proposals for the performance of the work specified in the aforesaid plans and specifications; . PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Tustin held on the 21St day of March 2017. Dr. Allan Bernstein Mayor ATTEST: Erica N. Rabe, City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE )SS CITY OF TUSTIN ) I, Erica N. Rabe, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Tustin, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of the members of the City Council is five; that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 17-03 was duly and regularly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 215' day of March 2017 by the following vote: COUNCILMEMBER AYES: COUNCILMEMBER NOES: COUNCILMEMBER ABSTAINED: COUNCILMEMBER ABSENT: Erica N. Rabe, City Clerk ATTACHMENT 2 Location Map LOCATION MAP Red Hill Ave Widening and Median Improvements between Barranca Pkwy and Edinger Ave , TUSTIN RANCH rusnH LEy Illllllllll�i \`\\�\� PROJECT LOCATION O Red Hill Avenue Wdeniing • Median• • _ _ between -ParkwayII 1111 \ ��'•• 1% h� • Edinger AvenueNos. 70197, 70226 & 70227) PROJE LOCA' Pt FILE Red HGI Won" k Wedlon Impravementmdxq ��