Crown Point picks design company for Stillwater work
By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune correspondent February 8, 2012 5:28PM
It’ll be your roundabout
It soon will be time to find out if Crown Point drivers take more kindly to a planned roadway roundabout than their neighbors to the east.
The roundabout will be at the L-shaped intersection of 93rd Avenue and Chase near the Lake County Government Center and the Erie Lackawanna Trail.
Wednesday the Board of Works and Public Safety agreed to hire Butler, Fairman & Seufert to provide the environmental document and produce the conceptual layout of the trail head for the Erie Lackawanna Trail at 93rd Avenue that will include the roundabout for an amount not to exceed $46,500.
Jake Dammarell, project engineer for BF&S, said the city has about $720,000 dedicated to the project in Transportation Enhancement Grant funding. Work will included finishing the trail heads and transforming the intersection into a three-legged roundabout.
Mayor David Uran said the city will have to contribute about $160,000, or 20 percent local match, to the project. He plans to go before the Redevelopment Commission Monday to discuss including the trailhead in the tax increment financing district for the local funding.
“It’s a very dangerous intersection,” Uran said.
He said the city both Lake County and the town of Merrillville are in favor of the project and will cooperate.
Updated: March 11, 2012 8:37AM
CROWN POINT — Officials are taking steps to move forward with a plan for replacing the crossings that have been removed in the Stillwater subdivision.
Wednesday the Board of Public Works and Safety approved Thomas Burke with Christopher Burke Engineering for the design build services for the work.
Wednesday also was the start date for work on removing the final of the three crossings Greenview Place. Work removing that crossing should be complete by Friday. Crossings at Crooked Creek Trail and Stillwater Parkway have been removed.
Christopher Burke Engineering has been helping the city with permitting and design for the removal of the crossings, according to Tris Miles, director of engineering.
“In order to keep the project moving forward as quality as it possibly can, we need to expand their scope of work,” Miles said.
The city will not be able to apply for a Indiana Department of Natural Resources permit to reconstruct the crossings until the existing crossings are completely removed. Christopher Burke has helped the city work with the DNR to come up with hydraulic modeling the agency is likely to approve.
Mayor David Uran said the engineering firm has been helping the city resolve an outstanding issue it inherited when subdivision became part of the city. Uran said ever since Christopher Burke came on the board has been discussing solutions. Prior to hiring the company, the board did not even know what the solution was.
He said at this time it is necessary to remove the crossings to keep the city in compliance with the state and the DNR mandate to do so.
“The ultimate goal is to install some type of roadway passage, but first things first,” Uran said.
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