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Duvall moves to restore maintenance and pedestrian projects to six-year TIP and pursue TIB grants for missing sidewalks
Summary
Public works staff told the council that a previously omitted maintenance/non-motorized/ADA program will be added to the city’s six‑year Transportation Improvement Plan to preserve grant eligibility, and staff said it will submit Transportation Improvement Board grant applications to fill missing sidewalk gaps on Big Rock Road.
Public works staff on July 15 told the Duvall City Council they would amend the city’s recently adopted six‑year Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) to restore routine maintenance, non‑motorized improvements and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) work that were unintentionally omitted from the adopted list.
Public works director Steve Len Shevsky said the omission made some projects ineligible for Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) and similar grants; restoring the programs to the six‑year TIP will allow the city to apply for state grant programs that require TIP inclusion.
Shevsky also presented two TIB grant submittals the city plans to pursue. The first targets active‑transportation work in the downtown area — completing sidewalk and bike facilities on segments where gaps remain. The second application targets a missing sidewalk gap along Big Rock Road: staff said the city will pursue a project to build sidewalks between the Toll Brothers development and 270 Fifth Avenue and a separate gap between addresses given in staff materials (identified in the packet as the segment between 276 and 278). Staff said the projects respond to frequent pedestrian and family use of the corridor and aim to improve safety where sidewalks are absent.
Staff said the TIB active‑transportation application includes a grant request of approximately $800,000 with a city match of about $300,000; the city noted TIB’s minimum-match rules have changed recently and that some cycles require larger local matches. Public works said the city will continue to press for favorable match treatment in future cycles.
Council members pressed staff on development status for adjacent parcels, tree impacts and whether property owners had been notified. Staff said the segments targeted for funding include private parcels with no active applications and that the city would try to minimize tree impacts by designing meandering sidewalk sections where needed.
Public works also noted the city’s current overlay and pavement schedule: staff will begin overlay work in early August as part of routine pavement maintenance.
No formal council vote to authorize the specific TIB applications was recorded in the workshop discussion; staff said they would move forward with grant applications ahead of the mid‑August deadline and return to council with contracts or grant awards when required.
