Min - City Council - 1983 - 09/29 - WorkshopALLEN CITY COUNCIL
ALLEN PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
MAIN STREET STUDY COMMITTEE
CALLED - SPECIAL WORKSHOP SESSION
September 29, 1983
Present:
City Council
Mickey Pierson, Mayor
Joe Farmer, Mayor Pro Tem (arrived at
7:34 p.m.)
Jim McClure (arrived at 7:45 p.m.)
Rex Womack
Don Rodenbaugh
Ward Paxton
Dennis Offutt
Planning and Zoning Commission
Jim Pendleton, Chairman
Absent:
Jim Wolfe, Vice Chairman
Gary Koch, Secretary
Larry Larsen
Bobby Glass
Jack Pennington
Glenn Andrew (arrived at 8:34 p.m.)
Main Street Study Committee
Mike Williams, Chairman
Ed Lynge, Vice Chairman
Emerson L. Porter, Secretary
Mrs. Liz Moseley
Willette Rosson
David Williams
Dr. A. E. Vita (arrived at 8:55 p.m.)
City Staff
Jon McCarty, City Manager
Marty Hendrix, City Secretary
Bill Petty, Director of Community Development
Guests
Mike Starek, with DeShazo, Starek and Tang, Inc.
Carol Walters, with DeShazo, Starek and Tang, Inc.
Terry Watson, with DeShazo, Starek and Tang, Inc.
The Called - Special Workshop Session of the Allen City Council,
Planning and Zoning Commission and the Main Street Study Committee
was called to order by Mayor Pierson at 7:32 p.m. on Thursday,
September 29, 1983, in the office open area of the Allen Municipal
Annex, One Butler Circle, Allen, Texas.
Review the Findings of the
Main Street Study Committee (Agenda Item II)
Mike Williams, Chairman of the Main Street Study Committee,
spoke before those present regarding the appointment of the Main
Street Study Committee by Mayor Pierson; advised of the purpose
of the committee to review alternates for the alignment of F.M. 2170
from U. S. 75 to State Highway 5 and to make a recommendation on
such to the City Council, including parking requirements for the
downtown business area; the committee's work in this area; and the
hiring of the consulting firm of DeShazo, Starek and Tang, Inc.,
to work with the committee in providing the engineering expertise
and in making the final recommendation to the City Council.
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Review the Findings of the
Main Street Study Committee (cont'd) (Agenda Item II)
Mr. Williams passed out the recommendation of the Main
Street Study Committee (see Attachment No. 1) and read the
recommendations to the Council and the Commission.
City Manager Jon McCarty introduced the consultants, being
Mike Starek, Vice President of Deshazo, Starek and Tang, Inc.,
and his associates, Ms. Carol Walters and Terry Watson.
Mr. Starek opened the presentation by making a brief intro-
duction of the study objectives of the committee for this project
as well as the establishing of a goal statement and the design
guidelines and criteria for the proposed alignment of Main Street
from U. S. 75 to State Highway 5.
Ms. Carol Walters reviewed in detail the traffic surveys
conducted and the formulation of the traffic analysis, the
methods of proposing alternatives for the alignment of Main
Street, and she reviewed in detail three of the four major
alternates for the routing of Main Street.
Mr. Watson advised of the design criteria of the routing
of Main Street and presented the preferred alternate of the
Main Street Study Committee, advised of the phasing in of
development of this roadway through Allen and the costs for
this construction.
At the end of the presentation, Mayor Pierson recognized
the members of the Main Street Study Committee, commended them
on the work they had done and extended appreciation to them from
the City Council.
Mayor Pierson recessed the workshop session at 9:05 p.m.
The workshop session reconvened at 9:20 p.m.
Discuss the Main Street Study
Committee's Recommendations (Agenda Item III)
The consultants passed out their Executive Summary of the
Allen Main Street Project which reflected the points of their
presentation.
There was considerable discussion among the City Council,
Planning and Zoning Commission and the Main Street Study Com-
mittee on various aspects of the recommendation. Some of the
discussion included the area proposed to be a one-way portion
of Main Street towards the downtown business area; the grade
separation proposed for the railroad tracks, the need for it,
the costs of it,where it would be actually located and access
off of it; constructing Main Street into a six -lane thoroughfare
in the initial construction phase; the formula for capacity of
traffic on this street and how it relates to the population and
growth of the city; the availability of funds to initiate this
project and carry through for final completion; upgrading of
other east/west streets in the city, such as Exchange Parkway,
rather than spending so much money in this one area; routing
of east/west traffic through the city when this construction
starts on Main Street; the costs for upgrading of other east/
west streets; the needs for routing of Main Street through the
existing downtown area; obtaining the needed right-of-way for
this project and the costs for such.
City Manager Jon McCarty advised of the funds appropriated
from the county to be applied to this project.
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Discuss the Main Street Study
Committee's Recommendation (cont'd) (Agenda Item III)
Discussion continued on proposing some temporary measures
that can be taken to route traffic to use Belmont in order to
take the traffic off of Main Street, the grade separation at
the railroad affecting the downtown business district, the
taking of the commercial businesses in the area of The Allen
American and the improvements to the road in the area ofits
intersection with the Cottonwood Creek.
Discuss the Relationship to Central
Business District Base Committee's
Recommendation (Agenda Item IV)
Councilman Don Rodenbaugh, member of the Central Business
District Base Committee, passed out the revised recommendations
of the base committee regarding the establishing of the Central
Business District based on the comments received at the public
hearing. These recommendations were to be reviewed and considered
at a forthcoming Council meeting.
Adjournment
Mayor Pierson adjourned the called - special workshop
session at 11:00 p.m.
These minutes approved on the lst day of December
1983, by the Main Street Study Committee unless otherwise
corrected by mail or phone by the members of said co 'ttee.
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Mi a wiliIams, CHAIRMAN " Emerson Porter, SECRETARY
These minutes approved on the Ct-day of
1983, by the Allen Planning and Zoning Commission.
Ji Pendleton, CHAIRMAN
Garyxocn, SECRETARY
These minutes approved on the 1st day of December
1983, by the Allen City Council. /n/
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M. B. Pierson, MAYOR
ATTEST:
Marty Hendril, CITY SECRETARY
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Attachment No. 1 to ('.
September 29, 1983 Minutes
of Called - Special Workshop)
MAIN STREET STUDY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
SEPTEMBER 29, 1983
MOTION: Upon a motion made by Willette Rosson and a
second by David Williams, the Main Street
Study Committee voted 7 for and 0 opposed to
present the following recommendation.
It is the recommendation of the Main Street Study Committee
that the attached report constitutes the recommendation of
the Main Street Study Committee regarding the alignment of
the Main Street thoroughfare from U.S. 75 to S.H. 5 and in
addition, the following comments are added.
Throughout the study, it has been a major concern of
the committee in locating the route for the thoroughfare
to displace and disrupt as few homes, businesses and
community facilities as possible. The committee
recognizes that as proposed, the Main Street thoroughfare
would require the acquisition of a significant amount
of right of way involving properties on which current
single family residential units and businesses are
located. It is the committee's recommendation, that
as much as possible, the additional right of way be
acquired through the City's platting and dedication
process consistent with phasing of the project, thereby
minimizing the effects of taking of the properties along
the designated route.
2. Although the report states that the grade separation
(underpass) at the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks
cannot be justified in terms of delays resulting from
train traffic during the period to the year 2000, it
is the committee's recommendation that the City of
Allen would be best served by having a grade separation
of the railroad tracks within the City and that strong
consideration should be given by the Council to have
that grade separation along the Main Street corridor.
1 The committee would like to point out that the proposed
underpass would facilitate cross town emergency vehicular
traffic.
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