{"id":1318722,"date":"2020-03-13T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=994466"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:29:40","slug":"south-midland-south-bridge-and-city-streets-dominate-glenwoods-virtual-town-hall-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/south-midland-south-bridge-and-city-streets-dominate-glenwoods-virtual-town-hall-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"South Midland, South Bridge and city streets dominate Glenwood\u2019s virtual town hall discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew Bennett\/Post Independent<\/strong>
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Several residents tuned in for the city of Glenwood Springs\u2019 first virtual town hall meeting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The live, interactive event allowed participants the opportunity to ask members of city staff about upcoming infrastructure projects planned for Glenwood Springs in 2020.<\/p>\n

South Midland<\/strong>
According to City Engineer Terri Partch, the city plans to complete South Midland\u2019s design on April 10, put the project out to bid by August and break ground in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe design of that project is intended to keep two lanes of traffic going at all times,\u201d Partch said. \u201cThat\u2019s not to say that we will not have interruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 18-month project<\/a> will reconstruct over a mile\u2019s worth of roadway beginning just south of the Midland Avenue and 27th Street roundabout and continuing just past the Four Mile intersection.<\/p>\n

The city did receive a $7 million Better Utilizing Investment to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant for the South Midland project and one town hall participant asked about the additional administrative burdens that accompany federal grant dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is expensive to accept federal or state money,\u201d Partch said citing the additional design work, construction management and increased staffing tied to federal grant dollars. \u201cWe are very cautious and conscious of those requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Partch, the city will not apply for any federal or state funding for projects that cost under $1 million to complete.<\/p>\n

The South Midland project carries with it an estimated price tag of approximately $12.6 million.<\/p>\n

South Bridge<\/strong>
\u201cSouth Bridge is another project that we are ramping up,\u201d Partch said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The city hopes to begin construction on South Bridge by 2022 but would need to bridge the project\u2019s multi-million dollar funding gap<\/a> first.<\/p>\n

However, planning for the South Bridge project, which would construct a second critical connection from the west side of the Roaring Fork River to Colorado Highway 82 in south Glenwood Springs, will occur throughout 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt actually connects some of the utilities we have down there. It completes a water loop. It completes electrical infrastructure across the river,\u201d Matthew Langhorst, Glenwood Springs public works director, said of South Bridge. \u201cIt is not just a bridge project, it is actually a utility project also.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Streets<\/strong>
Later this spring the city will make significant improvements to the Cedar Crest subdivision\u2019s roadways, drainage and water systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get comments all the time of \u2018when are you going to get to my street? Is it on the list?\u2019\u201d Langhorst said. \u201cEvery single street in this city is on our list.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final question of Tuesday night\u2019s town hall came from an online participant who inquired as to why the city was not scrapping improvements to Sayre Park and instead using the money for street repairs.<\/p>\n

City Manager Debra Figueroa, however, explained that local contributions and park improvement fees were funding Sayre Park\u2019s first phase of improvements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cParks are also really important to the majority of our community,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cWe need to figure out how to balance all of our needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first portion of Tuesday\u2019s town hall included a discussion with Garfield County Public Health and Valley View Hospital officials about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Coverage from that conversation appeared in a separate story in the Post Independent\u2019s Thursday edition.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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