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Public Information Meeting Maplewood Avenue & Water Street Promenade Adjacent Areas Engineering and Design Services Portsmouth, NH July 16,2014 December 9, 2015 Education / Infrastructure / Innovation 1 Agenda: Introduction

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Water Street Promenade Engineering and Design Services

July 16,2014

Education / Infrastructure / Innovation

December 9, 2015

Public Information Meeting

Maplewood Avenue & Adjacent Areas Portsmouth, NH

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Agenda:

  • Introduction
  • Project Need
  • Project Funding & Implementation
  • Anticipated Project Schedule
  • Meeting Purpose
  • Project Limits
  • Existing Conditions
  • Design Objectives
  • Public Input/Group Discussion
  • Next Steps

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Introduction – Who is Involved?

  • City Staff
  • Planning Department
  • Department of Public Works
  • Highway Division
  • Water Division
  • Sewer Division
  • Public Safety
  • Police Department
  • Fire Department
  • Engineering Consultants
  • Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
  • Weston & Sampson, Inc.
  • Sub-Consultants
  • Stakeholders
  • Residents
  • Business Owners

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Project Need:

  • Primary Need: Water Main Replacement on Maplewood Avenue
  • Recommended in 2013 Water Master Plan
  • Identified Adjacent Areas in Need of Work
  • Added to Overall Project
  • Full Roadway and Utility Reconstruction Where Appropriate
  • Complete Street Type Design
  • City Council Policy
  • Implementation of 2014

Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan

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Project Funding & Implementation:

  • Project was Funded Through Previous Capital Improvement Plans
  • Limits/Phases of Construction Will be Defined at the End of

Preliminary Design Based on Cost Estimates and Coordination with Other Projects

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Anticipated Project Schedule:

  • Initial Public Meeting………………………………December 9, 2015
  • Maplewood Site Walk……….…………………….December 19, 2015
  • Second Public Meeting……………………………February 2016
  • Third Public Meeting……………………………….March/April 2016
  • Complete Preliminary Design………………….May 2016
  • Complete Final Design…………………………....Summer 2016
  • Advertise for Construction………………………Fall 2016
  • Begin Construction.…………………………………Fall 2016/Spring 2017

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Meeting Purpose:

  • Kickoff Conceptual Design
  • We Need Your Input:
  • Issues
  • Concerns
  • Needs
  • Feedback:
  • Comment Forms
  • Breakout Groups
  • Note Plans
  • Post Meeting Input

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Project Limits

Woodbury Avenue North Mill Pond Utilities & Complete Street Sewer Replacement Water, Sewer & Drainage Sewer & Drainage 8

Maplewood Avenue & Adjacent Areas

Market Street Leslie Drive

Cutts Street Central Avenue Fairview Drive

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Existing Conditions:

  • Posted Speed Limit – 25 mph
  • Average Daily Traffic – 5,000 (2008)
  • Peak Hour Traffic – 500 (2008)
  • No Parking Regulation
  • Truck Restriction West of Central Ave

What do I see?

  • Cars…Pedestrians…Bicycles
  • Residential & Commercial Uses
  • Entry to Downtown
  • Trees
  • Utilities
  • Neighborhood

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Existing Conditions: Woodbury to I-95

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Existing Conditions: I-95 to Rt 1-Bypass

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Existing Conditions: Rt 1-Bypass to North Mill Pond

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Design Objectives:

  • Work with Previous City Studies

Utilities

  • 2013 Water Master Plan

2014 Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan

  • Complete Streets
  • City Council Policy
  • Work with Stakeholders
  • Conceptual/Prelim/Final Design
  • Construction Estimating

“Complete Streets” means streets that are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users, so that pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and public transportation users of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across a street.

  • City’s 2013 Complete Street Policy

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Pedestrian Plan

  • Sidewalk One Side of Maplewood Ave to Dennett St

(Exception…Both Sides Between Central & Cutts)

  • ADA Crosswalks
  • Intersection Geometry

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Pedestrian Plan (cont’d)

  • ADA Crosswalks
  • Intersection Geometry

Woodbury Ave Cutts St Edmond Ave

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Bicycle Plan

  • Bike Lanes
  • Buffered Bike Lanes
  • Signed Routes

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Bicycle Plan (cont’d)

  • Photos taken from Portsmouth Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan.

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Public Input/Group Discussion:

  • Break into Small Groups

What do we Need to Know? What are the Issues? What are the Concerns? What would you Like to See?

  • 20 Minute Discussion
  • Reconvene

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Next Steps

  • Public Written Comments
  • Tonight
  • …Or within 10 days
  • Meeting Notes
  • Comments and Responses
  • Subsurface Exploration
  • Maplewood Site Walk on December 19th
  • Traffic Counts/Parking Study – Tentative January
  • Concept Development
  • Second Public Meeting

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Keeping in Touch

  • Project Website:
  • Link to be Provided via Email Distribution
  • City Staff Contact:
  • Raymond C. Pezzullo, P.E.
  • Phone: 603-766-1755
  • Email: rcpezzullo@cityofportsmouth.com
  • Email Distributions

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