A bill for an ordinance designating certain properties as being required for public use and authorizing use and acquisition thereof by negotiation or through condemnation proceedings of fee, easement and other interests, including any rights and interests related or appurtenant to properties as needed for the Federal Boulevard Reconstruction Project between West 7th Avenue and West Holden Place. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Grants the authority to acquire all or any portion of property interest in forty three (43) properties, including temporary and permanent easements, for the widening of Federal Boulevard from 7th Avenue to West Holden Place in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 10-22-14.
Council Bill 847 is bill for an ordinance designating certain properties as being required for public use and authorizing use in acquisition through negotiations related to the properties needed for the Federal Boulevard Reconstruction Project. And it's between West Seventh Avenue and West Holden. And I just wanted to pull this out because I understand that this Federal Boulevard Reconstruction Reconstruction Project has been in discussion for about 20 years. Yet it was important to me that those properties most impacted by this project were informed. So I asked the City Attorney's Office and Public Works to go back and contact the property owners again, to give them ample information about the project so that the property owners could know what to expect and what would happen in the next couple of years. General public meetings and notifications were done. But again, I said that extra steps, extra steps be taken to include outreach directly to the properties in my district to make sure that people were aware of the project and its potential impacts, and also to engage them in offering comments about the environmental assessment that was being done. It was important to me that this happened. And so my aide, Amanda Sandoval, contacted the potential 11 partial takes in eight full takes and talked with them directly to see that they were informed. Public works also did any necessary follow up. And now I feel that we've done all of the communication that we can since the city attorney's office even came back to committee after I asked for it to be held and on television was able to talk to people about their rights as property owners at this stage. And so property owners will get a letter of intent in early 2015 that will begin the negotiations with them. One of the concerns that was also heard in the neighborhood was the condition of the federal crossing at Holden Place. And we now have a commitment from public works to have the Holden Place intersection included in the final design construction of the project. The project will now include replacing the existing asphalt at Federal in Holden with concrete paving, including the addition of colored crosswalks. The other thing that's important in terms of the business owners and property owners in Sun Valley is that the environmental assessment process is also a part of this picture. The comment period was recently closed for Federal Boulevard and the comments have been submitted. I want to thank Denver Public Works for putting it on their website and also for the Federal Boulevard Partnership, the Sun Valley Community Coalition, which commented about the need for more landscaping and increased pedestrian safety, and also earthlings who requested an audible pedestrian crossing signal which public works has already committed to have at Holden Place. And so I will be supporting this bill. Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Monteiro. In the other comments on 847. Seeing none, those were all the bills that were called out. So we are now ready for the Bloc votes. All of the bills are introductions are ordered published. Councilwoman Sussman, would you please put the resolutions on the floor for adoption in a block?