John Wayne Pioneer Trail Reconnection Route

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Cost Costs for complete design, permits, and construction for the trail system would be(in Zoog-3 dollars) approximately $3.3 million. This includes costs for grading, paving, fencing, landscap- ing, lighting, benches, signage, design, overhead and proflt,contingency, project managment, and sales tax. Details are shown below. Right of Way costs would depend upon decisions made by Kittitas County and the City regard- ing additional R/W that may be required depending on the route selected for Bowers Road and Rasmussen Road, and on actual costs for acquiring easments or fee simple ownership of the trail corridors proposed on private lands. Preliminary estimates are that acquistion would cost approximately $125,000 for private lands, and approximately $50,o0o-$ioo,o0o for public land acquisition along the Rasmussen Road alignment. Options to trade lands or acquire easements at lower costs than purchasing exist in all corridors. Jahn V;kVne Pioneer Buil Reconnection Study Final Report September 2001 61