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Urbandale council adopts 2025–2030 capital improvements plan after public debate over Aurora Avenue ‘Complete Streets’
Summary
After a public hearing with supporters and opponents, the Urbandale City Council approved its 2025–2030 Capital Improvements Program (CIP), advancing planning funds for a Complete Streets plan for Aurora Avenue and other projects. Council and staff emphasized stormwater funding details and the plan’s role as a planning document.
The Urbandale City Council on Tuesday approved the city’s 2025–2030 Capital Improvements Program, a planning document that funds design and sequencing for streets, stormwater and parks projects including a proposed “Complete Streets” redesign of Aurora Avenue and related corridors.
The vote followed a public hearing in which residents, bicycling advocates and business partners gave mixed reaction to the Aurora/70th Street Complete Streets proposal. Council member Bridget (chair of the CIP committee) told the council the CIP committee “unanimously approved the document” after detailed review and public hearings, and staff provided a new exhibit showing the portion of total construction dollars that are stormwater-related versus what the stormwater utility actually funds.
The action matters because the CIP guides bonding, debt service and the next municipal budget; the council’s approval provides staff direction to include the plan in budget preparation. Finance and city staff emphasized that the…
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