Res-2018-177 Distressed Sales and Use Tax Cle Elum

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with striped crosswalks across Billings Avenue on the north and south sides of First Street. Power poles, street lights, and a fire hydrant exist in the siclewalk. Billings A venue does not include sidewalks on either side of First Street. Street • First Street is an auto-centric thoroughfare. Since First Street was the original state highway through CJe El~ prior to construction of Interstate 90 (I-90)t First Street in the vicinity of the Billings Avenue intersection was constructed with 17-ft wide trave) lanes, a 12-ft two-way tum lane, and 18-ft paved, striped, parking strips on both sides of the street. The Billings A venue intersection does not include a traffic signal or a marked crosswalk across Finrt Street. Proposed Conditions Stormwater • The Phase Two storm.water system project along the length of the First Street conidor includes 60 catch basins in total and 4,060 linear feet of new 12:-and 24-inch stonn drain lines. The First Street and Billings Avenue intersection improvements will be co.mrtru.cte d to adjoin the remaining First Street Corridor storm.water system. • The City proposes to install six catch basins with 24" x 20" frames and grates at First Street and Billings Avenue. The intersection improvements will also include four bulbouts with curb and gutter designed to better convey and collector stormwater run.off. Following _completion of intetsection improvements at both ends of the downtown corridor, the City can showcase quick results of the planning efforts made during the development of the Downtown Revitaliution Plan and provide a visual definition of place for downtown commerce. Sidewalk • The First Street and Billings A venue intersection improvements include sidewalk bulboutE with eight ADA c-mb ·ramps, widened sidewalks, pedestrian illumination, undergrom1ding utilities, amenities, street trees, planter.s, and irrigation. Cle Elum prop~es to complete a continuous and unencumbered sidewalk. system on both sides of First Street accommodating pedestrians of all abilities. Sidewalk will be continued on both sides of First Street on Billings A venue to accommodate appropriate crossings, and future sidewalk extensions north and south on Billings Avenue. The wide sidewalks allow for amenities such as seating, shade, bicycle racks, planter boxest public art, and trash receptacles. The bulbouts are specifically designed to shorten pedestrian crossings at each intersection of the corridor, while also serving as traffic calming me,chanisms, particularly for vehicles entering downtown from the west.em "Safeway Hill" area. Street • The now auto-centric thoroughfare of First Street will be placed on a road diet. Driving lane widths will be reduced to 11 feet to promote calming through the conidor. Parking stalls on both sides of First Street will be widened and restriped to accommodate diagonal parking, allowing an increased number of available parking spots, at 30-degree desirable angles, all without adding more impervious surfacing. Street lighting will be a blend of pedestrian-level and street lighting, with electrical GFCI receptacles incoxporated into the lights for downtown events and holiday lighting. Designing ~d constructing the street for a right-sized downtown feel and dimension will allow the City to better maintain the roadway system and related integrated infrastructure systems. 2. Explaln the specific Infrastructure Issues the project addreuas and how they are llnkad to economic development Improvements. The City is proposing to design and construct stormwater, sidewalk, and roadway infrastructure improvements concurrently at Billings . Avenue and First Street. This comprehensive planning strategy allows the City to coordinate the improvements to different but integrated infrasttucture 5