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City staff presents feasible cart-path connection between McIntosh High and Booth Middle; DOT input required
Summary
Engineers showed council design options for a cart-path connection to link McIntosh High School and Booth Middle School, focusing on a preferred bridge alignment that would avoid the cemetery and require easements and DOT sign-off.
City engineers on Feb. 25 presented council members with a feasibility study and conceptual drawings for a cart-path and crossing that would connect McIntosh High School to Booth Middle School, a project the city has been pursuing for several years.
The presentation by Dan Davis of Integrated Science and Engineering outlined multiple alignment options, including bridges, at-grade crossings and tunnels, and identified a preferred bridge alignment west of Robinson Road that ties directly into existing cart-paths and school property with minimal private-yard easements. Davis said the preferred alignment would require an easement across a small, vacant parcel and the acquisition or easement of another parcel owned by the city to achieve American with Disabilities Act (ADA) slopes and daylighting for the route.
The plan matters because the…
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