Agenda Date: 07/16/2024
Subject:
Title
Resolution 80-2024: Approving an agreement with the City of Englewood for the City Ditch Crossing Agreement for Littleton Nichols Avenue Roadway Improvements
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Brent Soderlin, Interim Director of Public Works & Utilities
Brent Thompson, City Engineer
Kimberly Dall, Assistant City Engineer
Presentations:
N/A
PURPOSE:
Does city council support an agreement with the City of Englewood for the City Ditch Crossing Agreement for Littleton Nichols Avenue Roadway Improvements?
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
Safe Community; High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
The City of Englewood's City Ditch is a critical component of Englewood's raw water infrastructure. The City of Englewood requires an agreement for any crossing of the City Ditch to protect the critical infrastructure. The RiverPark development dedicated right of way to the City of Littleton to construct Nichols Avenue as part of the Santa Fe Drive and Mineral Avenue Operational Improvement Project. The Nichols Avenue right of way and roadway improvements will cross the relocated City Ditch, an agreement is needed to allow the crossing of the roadway and piped ditch.
BACKGROUND:
The City of Englewood's City Ditch is a critical component of Englewood's raw water infrastructure. The ditch traverses the parcels being developed at the southwest corner of Santa Fe Drive and Mineral Avenue. Both the Santa Fe Park and RiverPark developments proposed to relocate the ditch for better use of the properties.
The Santa Fe Park development is currently under construction; the development has relocated a portion of the City Ditch from an open ditch to a pipe within an exclusive easement adjacent to Santa Fe Drive.
The proposed RiverPark development will also relocate a portion of the City Ditch adjacent to Santa Fe Drive. RiverPark's recorded plat dedicated an exclusive easement for the relocated ditch, as well as right of ...
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