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05-21-2019 Development AgreementPowerPoint Presentation SOUND TRANSITFEDERAL WAY LINK EXTENSIONDevelopment Agreement May 21, 2019 City Council Meeting Presentation Outline: Project History Project Overview Development Agreement Details Project Schedule and Next steps Policy Question Should the City Council approve the Federal Way Link Extension Project Development Agreement between the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) and the City of Federal Way? Project History – Sound Transit: Sound Transit 2 passed in 2008 approving the project 2012-2016: Alternatives Development, Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statement with preliminary engineering Sound Transit 3 passed in 2016 approving project funding 2017: Interstate 5 Project alignment selected by Sound Transit Board March 6, 2017: Federal Transit Administration Record of Decision 2017-2018: Sound Transit finished preliminary engineering and project requirements for Design/Build Contractor Procurement 2019: Select most qualified Design/Build Contractor and issue NTP Late 2019/early 2020: Begin construction 2020-2023: Heavy Civil Construction 2024: Start of revenue service Project History – City of Federal Way: 2012-2015: Partnership during Alternatives Development and Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2015: Resolution 15-686 recommending I-5 alignment 2016: Partnership during Final Environmental Impact Statement 2017: City Services Agreement 2017-2018: Letters of concurrence and partnership during Sound Transit pre-engineering efforts 2018-2019: Design/Build Contractor Procurement 2019: Transit Way Agreement executed Project Overview – Stations and Alignment: Project Overview – FWTC Station: Quick Development Agreement Overview: City staff have been drafting the agreement with meaningful input from Council, City Committees, department staff, and the public Standards and guidelines are based on City Code, the City Comprehensive Plan, established past practices and acceptable Engineering Standards of Practice The agreement describes significant benefits for the City and Federal Way constituents incorporating the City’s Comprehensive Plan, City Events, and projects identified in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) The next few slides walk through the key elements of the agreement Key Project/Agreement Elements: Public Benefit to the Community A rapid, reliable, accessible, and efficient alternative for travel along the corridor and to/from other urban growth and activity centers in the region The first segment of transit connectivity in the City of Federal Way, to be followed by the Tacoma Dome Link Extension Project Will serve as a catalyst to transform our downtown Parking The project will construct a structured parking garage and small surface lot that will provide an additional 400 spaces of parking The existing parking garage has 1,190 spaces, bringing the total number of parking spaces to 1,590 Sound Transit will conduct a before and after parking study to determine impacts of the station Key Project/Agreement Elements: Infrastructure Improvements Reconstructing 23rd Ave S from S 317th St to S 320th St as a concrete roadway Reconstructing S 317th St from 28th Ave S to 23rd Ave S as a concrete roadway Constructing a new roundabout intersection at 23rd Ave S and S 317th St New grid roads between S 320th St and S 316th St between 21st Ave S and 23rd Ave S Constructing pedestrian improvements between the proposed Federal Way Transit Center Station and the existing Park and Ride at the intersection of 23rd Ave S and S 324th St Construct improvements to the City Fiber System Key Project/Agreement Elements: Infrastructure Improvements (a visual) Key Project/Agreement Elements: Infrastructure Improvements (a visual) Key Project/Agreement Elements: Code modifications Intersection spacing between the proposed S 318th St and S 319th St entrances along 21st Ave S Undergrounding requirement for electric facilities Maximum height of rockeries and retaining walls Above grade parking structures and active use requirement Permitting framework The goal of the framework is to set expectations Based on coordination with partner Cities SeaTac, Des Moines and Kent, with lessons learned from Bellevue and Redmond Final plan to be established with Design/Build contractor input Identifies submittals, review times, permits and inspections Key Project/Agreement Elements: Participation in Surplus Property Process The City is an active partner in the process Project consistency with City Comprehensive Plan and downtown planning efforts Consensus-based approach to project selection Pavement restoration 2” mill and overlay on all haul routes and repairs as needed Security Partnership Safe City security camera integration Public safety agreement Future Task Orders Design/Permitting/Inspection Project Schedule and Next Steps: Development Agreement: Public hearing and ordinance first reading at May 21st Council Ordinance second reading at June 4th Council Sound Transit Committee and Board meetings in June Sound Transit Contractor Procurement: Anticipate notice to proceed to winning firm this summer Construction Schedule: Late 2019/early 2020: Begin construction 2020-2023: Heavy Civil construction (columns, guideway, stations, parking structures, roadway improvements) 2023-2024: Systems testing and integration 2024: Open for revenue service Options Considered Approve the proposed ordinance and hold the ordinance first reading at the regular City Council meeting tonight, May 21, 2019. Reject the proposed ordinance and provide direction to staff. Mayor’s Recommendation The Mayor recommends Option 1 to approve the proposed ordinance. QUESTIONS? Good evening Mayor Ferrell, Deputy Mayor Honda and Council members. My name is Tony Doucette from the Public Works Department and I excited to be here tonight and present on the Development Agreement between the City and Sound Transit for the Federal Way Link Extension. The City and Sound Transit have been working to negotiate this agreement for over a year and I am pleased to say that this is a good agreement for the City as we partner with Sound Transit to welcome light rail improvements. As a quick overview of this presentation, I will: Briefly discuss project history, including how we got here and how we fit into the overall FWLE project schedule Highlight the project scope (this is the FWLE, not TDLE or OMF) and focus on the segment within City limits from S 272nd St to S 320th Step into details of the development agreement, including key elements that will benefit the community Review project schedule and highlight next steps The goal tonight is to present the final Development Agreement to Council for approval. Before jumping into the Project History the Policy question is “Should the City Council approve the Federal Way Link Extension Project Development Agreement between Sound Transit and the City of Federal Way.” This slide provides a brief overview of Sound Transit efforts on the Federal Way Link Extension to-date with the planned construction schedule. I won’t cover all of the dates, but do want to highlight six key bullets: Sound Transit 2 passed in 2008 approving the project Sound Transit 3 passed in 2016 approving the funding In 2017, Sound Transit’s Board selected the Interstate 5 Project alignment In 2019, Sound Transit will select most qualified Design/Build Contractor and issue NTP Late 2019/early 2020: The Design/Build Contractor will begin construction 2024: Start of revenue service This slide provides a brief overview of City efforts to-date – again I won’t cover all dates shown, but do want to highlight four key elements: Between 2012-2015, the City partnered with Sound Transit during alternatives development and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement In 2015, Council passed Resolution 15-686 recommending the Interstate-5 alignment 2018-2019, the City was an Agency partner and technical reviewer during the Design/Build Contractor Procurement process 2019, earlier this year the Transit Way Agreement was executed, granting Sound Transit non-exclusive rights in City right-of-way to construct the link light rail project This graphic illustrates the alignment of the Federal Way Link Extension travelling south from Angle Lake Station along I-5 stopping at the Kent/Des Moines Road Station and S 272nd St Station before entering the City. The alignment within the City parallels I-5 mostly within WSDOT ROW until S 317th St, where it curves toward the Federal Way Transit Center before heading south to the project terminus south of S 320th St. Zooming in to the Federal Way Transit Center Station, this station graphic is from Environmental Impact Statement and preliminary engineering. In comparison with a City delivered Capital Project, this is somewhere between a conceptual design and 30% design. I will note that some details shown are likely to change during the design process, but provides the starting point. You will notice that in addition to the station, new north/south and east/west grid roads, a roundabout, and parking garage will be constructed. This will be an urban station with substantial transit oriented development potential surrounding the station in our downtown core. Before providing the outline, I want to highlight that as an overview, City staff have been developing this agreement with meaningful input from Council, Committees, department staff and the public and standards are based on City Code, the City’s Comprehensive plan, established best practices and acceptable engineering standards of practice. Further, this agreement describes significant benefits for the City and Federal Way constituents. The Development Agreement is detailed and lengthy, both in content and duration of the agreement. The next few slides walk through the key elements of the agreement First, the project will provide a public benefit, a rapid, reliable, accessible, and efficient alternative for travel along the corridor and to/from other urban growth and activity centers in the region. This project is the first segment of light rail transit connectivity in the City of Federal Way, to be followed by the Tacoma Dome Link Extension Project and it will serve as a catalyst to transform our downtown. Parking improvements for the project will include a structured parking garage and a small surface kiss-and-ride lot that will provide 400 additional parking spaces. With the existing garage there are 1,190 parking spaces, bringing the total to 1,590 spaces. Additionally, Sound Transit will conduct a parking study to evaluate parking capacity on block faces before and after the station opens and will work with the City to implement parking control measures if needed. I have mentioned these infrastructure improvements multiple times and mention them again here both because they are substantial improvements to known pavement deficiencies and key mitigation elements to address increased bus traffic, multi-modal access and ridership with the proposed station. Those improvements are: Reconstructing 23rd Ave S from S 317th St to S 320th St as a concrete roadway Reconstructing S 317th St from 28th Ave S to 23rd Ave S as a concrete roadway Constructing a new roundabout intersection at 23rd Ave S and S 317th St New grid roads between S 320th St and S 316th St between 21st Ave S and 23rd Ave S Constructing pedestrian improvements between the proposed Federal Way Transit Center Station and the existing Park and Ride at the intersection of 23rd Ave S and S 324th St Construct improvements to the City Fiber System This graphic should look familiar, and it is a great way to highlight the project and delineate proposed infrastructure improvements with the project. This graphic shows the preliminary new grid road layout and improvements Continuing with Key Agreement Elements, the project required a few modifications to our development standards and code requirements based on practical design and Sound Transit is able to meet or exceed the design intent with alternatives. Select examples include: Intersection spacing on new grid roads: Sound transit will meet or exceed the design intent by restricting access with c-curbs to minimize turning conflicts or reconfigure driveways on the west side of 21st Ave S with future development Undergrounding requirement for electric facilities: the City is not requiring Sound Transit to underground the existing aerial facilities that span I-5 because it is impractical to cross under I-5 with this project. Maximum height of Rockeries and retaining walls: The height restriction is six feet and over six feet requires terracing the structure. This restriction is impractical for a guideway section on fill and would require more right-of-way takes. Sound Transit will mitigate with landscaping as shown in the letter of concurrence in the agreement. Our community design standards require active use in the first floor of the parking structure: In lieu of an active use at the parking garage Sound Transit will construct fiber optic improvements that will benefit safe city security cameras Permitting framework: The goal of the permitting framework is to set expectations between the City, Sound Transit and the Design-Build contractor to inform the schedule and establish reasonable turnaround times. The draft plan shown in the agreement is based on lessons learned from Redmond, Bellevue and SeaTac and includes coordination with Federal Way Link Extension partner Cities SeaTac, Des Moines and Kent. The final plan will be developed in close coordination between the City, Sound Transit and the Design/Build contractor. Participation in the Surplus Property Process: Sound Transit staff presented an overview of the surplus property process to Council at the April 2nd study session. Recall the conclusions at this stage are that the City will be a partner and the project selection process requires consensus to move forward. The RFP process will include input from the City’s planning efforts to establish project criteria. I will take this opportunity to encourage additional planning efforts in our downtown prior to the start of surplus property planning efforts. Pavement restoration: the agreement clearly identifies approved haul routes and requires that any damage to the haul routes is mitigated with a 2” overlay Security partnership: Sound Transit and the City will work to share feeds between City owned and Sound Transit owned cameras to improve security operations. Additionally, as I mentioned earlier in the presentation, prior to the start of revenue service, Sound Transit and the City will enter into a public safety agreement outlining cooperation between Sound Transit Security and the Federal Way Police Department. This will cover a variety of operational details, ranging from communications, incident response, and patrol details to be negotiated by the City’s Police Department and Sound Transit Security staff. The last bullet “Future Task Orders” is included because the substantial design review, permitting and inspection effort identified on the previous slide will require additional task orders under the City Services Agreement. I only bring this up because City staff time spent on the project will continue to be reimbursed through the duration of the project design and construction. The Mayor recommends option 1 to approve the proposed ordinance. Before I take questions, I would like to again take a moment to thank Council for their time and interest with this project - it will have a monumental impact on the future of our downtown. Additionally, thank you again to City staff in public works, community development, police, information technology, and law for the substantial effort put into this agreement. I would also like to thank our Sound Transit Partners who are in attendance tonight – they approached this agreement with a diligent problem solving attitude and have made consistent efforts to inform residents, City staff and Council to support the project. At this time I am happy to answer questions and phone a department friend if needed.