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Staff Report for a Resolution Accepting the Work for the Public Improvements on Merced Street and Fairway Drive
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The public improvements project reconstructed and widened portions of Merced Street and Fairway Drive, including upgrades to the traffic signal and streetlight systems within the corridors.
Staff recommends that the City Council accept the work done by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, direct staff to file the Notices of Completion, release the Performance Bonds, and release the Maintenance Bond upon completion of the one-year maintenance period to the satisfaction of the Engineering and Transportation Department Director.
BACKGROUND
As part of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals' (Kaiser) entitlements for the construction of a facility at 2500 and 2550 Merced Drive (formerly 1701 Marina Boulevard), it was required to mitigate the impacts of the new facility, including making certain improvements to the proposed facility's property frontage. Based on these requirements, Kaiser and the City entered into a public improvement agreement, which permitted Kaiser to comply with the project's impact mitigation measures.
Kaiser's public improvements to mitigate the impacts of its proposed facility included roadway widening and reconstruction of Merced Street between the Wells Fargo Bank driveway and approximately 350 feet northwest of West 140th Avenue, and roadway reconstruction of Fairway Drive between Nicholson Street and the easterly end of Fairway Drive. The improvements also included landscaping of the Merced Street median and along the entire property's frontage. The project upgraded existing traffic signals along the frontage to accommodate the improvements and added additional signals at the Merced Street / Republic Street intersection, Fairway Drive / Garfield Street intersection, and Fairway Drive/ Miller Street intersection. The project also incorporated a state of the art traffic control sys...
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