STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: May 25, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 6
DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Dr. Robert Perez
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SUBJECT
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A public hearing to receive comments to amend the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan to delete Amonette Street between West Commerce Street and Singleton Boulevard from the Thoroughfare Plan; and, at the close of the hearing, authorize an ordinance implementing the change - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
James Lee, 255 West Commerce property owner, has requested an amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan to delete Amonette Street between West Commerce Street and Singleton Boulevard from the Thoroughfare Plan. Amonette Street is currently on the Thoroughfare Plan as a Community Collector, to be constructed as a two-lane undivided roadway in 54 feet of right-of-way. Amonette Street has been constructed to Thoroughfare Plan standards north of Broadway Avenue on the northside of the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) train tracks to Singleton Boulevard. It has not been constructed south of the UPRR tracks to West Commerce Street.
In 2011, City Council adopted the West Dallas Urban Structure Guidelines, which envisioned three new north-south streets connecting West Commerce Street and Singleton Boulevard under the UPRR tracks between Sylvan Avenue and Beckley Avenue: Bataan Street, Herbert Street, and Amonette Street. Funding was allocated to the West Dallas Gateway project (also known as the Three Hole Punch project) in the 2012 Bond to construct these three new streets. Since then, the City of Dallas Public Works Department has been coordinating with the North Central Texas Council of Governments and UPRR on options to construct the project, and there has been consensus for only constructing one new street that will travel under the UPRR tracks to connect West Commerce to Singleton: Herbert Street. The StoryBuilt Traffic Impact Analysis (March 2021) found that traffic can be successfully incorporated into the surrounding roadway network with only the extension of Herbert under the UPRR tracks. Bataan Street was removed from the Thoroughfare Plan on August 25, 2021.
The City does not currently have the required right-of-way or funding to construct Amonette Street south of the UPRR. If Amonette Street is removed from the Thoroughfare Plan, the existing section of Amonette Street north of the UPRR tracks would be assigned a classification of “local road” in the City streets inventory.
No driveways or on-street parking will be affected by this proposed Thoroughfare Plan amendment.
Staff recommends approval of the requested amendment to delete Amonette Street from West Commerce Street to Singleton Boulevard from the Thoroughfare Plan.
PRIOR ACTION/REVIEW (COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS)
On March 23, 2022, the City Plan Commission Thoroughfare Committee acted on this item and followed staff recommendation.
On April 7, 2022, the City Plan Commission Thoroughfare Committee acted on this item and followed staff recommendation.
FISCAL INFORMATION
No cost consideration to the City.
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