STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and Sustainability
AGENDA DATE: August 11, 2021
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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An ordinance granting an amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan to delete Chenault Street from Buckner Boulevard to City of Dallas City Limits and delete Unnamed NE1 from Chenault Street to Interstate Highway 30 - Financing: No cost consideration to the City (This item was deferred on April 14, 2021)
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BACKGROUND
Chapel Downs Dallas, LLC, requested an amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan to delete Chenault Street from Buckner Boulevard to City of Dallas City Limits; and delete Unnamed NE1 from Chenault Street to Interstate Highway (IH)-30 from the Thoroughfare Plan. Chenault Street is on the Thoroughfare Plan as a standard four-lane undivided roadway in 60 feet of right-of-way (S-4-U). East of Buckner Boulevard Chenault Street is not built to the Thoroughfare Plan standard and on the applicant's property the roadway has not been built. Unnamed NE1 is on the Thoroughfare Plan as a standard four-lane undivided roadway in 60 feet of right-of-way (S-4-U), this roadway has not been built. The City of Dallas does not own all the required right-of-way to build these two roads.
The applicant is proposing to build a new public charter school campus and will need the proposed extension of Chenault Street removed to allow for full development of their property. Based on the Traffic Impact Study completed by Elizabeth Crowe Engineering Associations, PLLC, all the surrounding streets can handle all additional trips generated by this new school. They are proposing all access to the campus for staff and parents dropping off and picking up their children will be from the westbound IH-30 Frontage Road. The site plan and transportation management plan has been design...
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