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• Purpose and Need
• Key Project Features
• Right of Way Acquisition
• Questions

Outline

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• Parks Highway, MP 44-52, Phase 3, Pittman

Road to Big Lake Road

• Glenn Highway, MP 34-42, Glenn-Parks

Interchange to Arctic Avenue

• Knik-Goose Bay Road, MP 0.3 to 6.8, Centaur

Avenue to Vine Road

Focus on 3 Valley Projects

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• Purpose:

All three project corridors are National Highway System (NHS) routes whose primary function is moving goods and services with limited, safe, access.

Common Purpose and Need

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• Need:

― All three projects address the

safety problems caused by uncontrolled access, while reducing congestion, and increasing travel efficiency.

― Knik-Goose Bay and Parks

Highway have high crash rates and are designated safety corridors.

Common Purpose and Need

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Project Description: Parks Highw ay

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2/8/2017

• 4-lane divided highway
• Partial controlled access
• No change in design speed
• Median openings on ½ mile spacing
• Frontage roads where feasible and to enhance

access for adjacent residents/businesses

• Separate multi-use pathway, Wasilla to Big

Lake

Key Project Features: Parks Highw ay

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Design: Parks Highw ay

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• 2010 to 2013
• Preliminary Design
• 2013-2017
• Final design and right-of-way acquisition
• 2018
• Construction begins
• (Depending on availability of funding.)

Project Schedule: Parks Highw ay

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Project Description: Glenn Highw ay

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2/8/2017

• 4-lane divided highway
• Partial controlled access
• No change in design speed
• Median openings on ½ mile spacing
• Frontage roads where feasible and to enhance

access for adjacent residents/businesses

• Separate multi-use pathway, Palmer to

Matanuska State Park

Key Project Features: Glenn Highw ay

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Design: Glenn Highw ay

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• 2013-2015
• Environmental document completed
• 2015-2018
• Design and right-of-way acquisition
• 2019
• Earliest phased Construction could begins
• (Depending on availability of funding.)

Project Schedule: Glenn Highw ay

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Project Description: KGB Road

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2/8/2017

• 4-lane divided highway
• No change in design speed
• Frontage roads where feasible and to enhance

access for adjacent residents/businesses

• Separate multi-use pathway on north side

Key Project Features: KGB Road

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Design: KGB Road

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T ypic al Se c tions:

MAC K RO A D T O C ENT AUR AVENUE FO UR- L ANE URBAN SEC T IO N: RAISED MEDIAN & SEPARAT ED MUL T I- USE PAT HWAY VINE RO AD T O MA C K RO AD FO UR- L ANE RURAL SEC T IO N: DEPRESSED G RASS MEDIAN & SEPARAT ED MUL T I- USE PAT HWAY

• 2015
• Environmental Document Completed
• 2016 – 2018
• Design and Right-of-Way Acquisition
• 2019
• Construction (Depending on availability of funding.)

Project Schedule: KGB

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• General steps
• Fair market appraisal
• Offer to property owner
• Relocation assistance
• Closing and payment

Right-of-Way Acquisition

• Using consultant teams in Parks and Glenn

projects

• Challenges
• Relocation locations for businesses
• Relocation locations for residents
• General public understanding of acquisition

process

• Eminent domain use

Right-of-Way Acquisition

• Parks Highway, MP 44-52
• http://www.parkshighway44-52.info
• Glenn Highway, MP 34-52
• http://brooks-alaska.com/glennhighway/
• Knik-Goose Bay
• http://dot.alaska.gov/creg/kgb_cv/index.shtml#

For more information:

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ROW Information/Resources

http://www.dot.state.ak.us/stwddes/dcsrow/downloads.shtml

Questions