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Ridgeville 1800 South bike path design mostly finished; council pauses to resolve right-of-way funding gap
Summary
City engineers told the council the Ridgeville 1800 South bike-path project is about 85% designed but faces a roughly $47,600 shortfall driven largely by higher-than-estimated UDOT right-of-way costs; the council voted to table action to the next meeting for further review.
City staff told the Richfield City Council the Ridgeville 1800 South bike-path project is approximately 85% complete in design but faces a funding shortfall driven mainly by larger-than-expected right-of-way costs in the UDOT process.
“We’re about 85% finished with the design,” the project presenter said, noting $76,000 had been spent on design to date (including UDOT’s time). Staff told the council the initial right-of-way estimate was $56,000 but a shotgun estimate from UDOT later increased that figure to about $81,000. That change — plus contingency and other adjustments — left the city about $47,600 short of the budget the project currently needs for right-of-way acquisition and to proceed toward advertisement.
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