STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: February 14, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 5, 8
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 Ordinance No. 20860, "City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan" to change the designation of Elam Road between Pemberton Hill Road and Jim Miller Road from a minor six-lane divided roadway in 100 feet of right-of-way [M-6-D(a)] to a special two-lane undivided roadway with a shared-use path on the north side of the roadway in 75 feet of right-of-way [SPCL 2U]; and, at the close of the public hearing, authorize an ordinance implementing the change - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
The City of Dallas Department of Transportation has requested an amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan on Elam Road between Pemberton Hill Road and Jim Miller Road to facilitate a Safe Routes to School project. This section of Elam Road is on the Thoroughfare Plan as a six-lane divided roadway in 100 feet of right-of-way [M-6-D(a)]. The roadway currently exists as a two-lane undivided roadway in 55 to 106 feet of right-of-way. The proposal is to change the designation on the Thoroughfare Plan to a special two-lane undivided roadway with a shared-use path on the north side of the road in 75 feet of right-of-way [SPCL 2U].
The proposed amendment to this section of Elam Road resulted from a 2020 North Central Texas Council of Government's Safe Routes to School call for projects that was submitted in May 2020 and was awarded to the City of Dallas in September 2020. The application was submitted with a support letter from the Pleasant Grove Unidos Neighborhood Association stating they support the application and the proposed improvements. This project is also in compliance with the September 2017 Pemberton Hill Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan that...
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