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Town Meeting APPROPRIATION COMITTEE REPORT TO THE NOVEMBER 2018 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING #1
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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE-STM 2018-1 <br /> Warrant Article Analysis and Recommendations <br /> Article 2018-1.3: Appropriate for Center Streetscape Design <br /> Funds Requested Funding Source Committee Recommendation <br /> $650,000 GF Approve (8-1) <br /> This article seeks an appropriation of$650,000 from the General Fund to complete the design work for the <br /> Center Streetscape project.The Center Streetscape project addresses pedestrian and bike rider safety issues, <br /> as well as accessibility problems in the Center Business District stemming from roadways, sidewalks and <br /> lighting designed and constructed over fifty years ago. The Town anticipates that design work would be <br /> completed in time to support a request for appropriation of the construction funds necessary to complete <br /> the project, the total cost of which is now estimated at approximately $9.4 million, at the 2019 Annual <br /> Town Meeting. <br /> The current Center Business District roadway and sidewalk configuration was the result of a revitalization <br /> project designed by prominent local landscape architect Hideo Sasaki and constructed in the mid 1960's. <br /> While this project created an attractive Mid-Century Modernist atmosphere that for years made our center <br /> stand out,the aged infrastructure now has many shortcomings including: a high number of accidents where <br /> pedestrians and bikers have been injured(or even killed)by motor vehicles; sidewalks and crosswalks that <br /> do not meet current accessibility standards; deteriorating brick sidewalks that are uneven and have created <br /> stumbling and mobility hazards; and a roadway surface that needs regrading and resurfacing. <br /> At the 2012 Annual Town Meeting, $240,000 in design funds were appropriated to study Massachusetts <br /> Avenue,from the Woburn Street intersection to the Meriam Street intersection,and to address,among other <br /> things,the deficiencies in the current layout that contributed to these accidents. At the 2014 Annual Town <br /> Meeting, $600,000 was appropriated to bring forward a 25% design for renewed roadways, sidewalks, <br /> lighting and amenities on this stretch of road.Beta Associates was engaged for this work and,about halfway <br /> through the design process, initial designs were presented. Beta's proposed design met community re- <br /> sistance, in part because of a perception that it disregarded the historic aspects of the center's Mid-Century <br /> Modernist design. The Board of Selectmen subsequently convened the Ad Hoc Center Streetscape Design <br /> Advisory Committee to develop community-based acceptable design standards for sidewalk materials, <br /> lighting, trees, signage, furnishings, and accessibility. When controversy concerning the signalization of <br /> the Woburn Street intersection arose,the Board removed that intersection from the project. <br /> The updated 25% design incorporates the standards developed by the Ad Hoc committee and covers work <br /> that will affect Massachusetts Avenue from the Police Station driveway to the front of Cary Memorial <br /> Library, and Waltham Street from Vine Brook Road to the Massachusetts Avenue intersection. Estimated <br /> construction costs are detailed below. <br /> 3 <br />
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