[MissoulaGov] Public Works 8-12-07

[Jason Wiener]

Bob Jaffe is on vacation so committee chairs will be filling in by reporting our meetings. Here is my installment.

Public Works:

We approved an agreement with MDT to chip-seal on Russell between the railroad and North Avenue. The city acts as a contractor for the state on these routes; since we've got an agreement in place and the public sector (especially our streets division) is so efficient at providing these services, it saves everyone time and money.

We wrapped up dealing with the additional issues created by the discovery of right-of-way on the west side of Miller Creek Road that was dedicated in 1896 by passing a resolution vacating the portions of the road we can't envision needing for any future construction on the road. (Right now, that far-off future construction is of a four-lane road but the immediate project is just for three lanes and the bike lanes, sidewalks and boulevards that go with a complete street.) The old right-of-way went through houses and yards and created a problem since governing bodies are not free to give away public goods but the discovery of the public stake in the right-of-way was causing the property owners significant angst. About three-quarters of the properties affected were in the county, which vacated its right-of-way in exchange for a limited easement that  requires property owners not destabilize the road with improvements on its edge. The city did the same in cases under our jurisdiction where the new easement could be obtained; in one case, where the easement could not be obtained, we vacated all of the right-of-way that we wouldn't even need an easement on. We didn't have any public comment, which I took as a sign that property owners are pleased with the outcome since the affected people have been good about letting us know when they disliked how things were progressing. So that's good work by the people involved and it allows us to proceed with nailing down right-of-way on the east side of the road.

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Jason Wiener, Alderman, Ward One
1238 Jackson St.
Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 542-3232

From: Stacy Rye
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:57 AM
To: Marilyn Marler; Dave Strohmaier; Jason Wiener
Subject: list serv

Greetings,
I told Bob I would do the listserv while he was gone.  Since I have been advised/ordered to avoid stress I will miss most meetings today.  Wish that order would have come with some meds to help other than the new pills that lower my blood pressure, duh.  Marilyn, would you write up Conservation, Jason do Public Works and Dave do PSH for the list serv this week?  I could do PAZ unless Marilyn wants it.

Let me know.

Stacy

Stacy Rye
Missoula City Council, Ward 3
www.ci.missoula.mt.us
406-543-9784

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