TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Karen M. McDonald, City Attorney
FROM: Kecia N. Parker, NCCP, Real Estate Manager
DATE: January 9, 2023
RE:
Title
Authorization of Condemnation of Easements on the Properties Needed for Sunbury Drive Drainage Project
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)|109|
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
Executive Summary:
On April 25, 2002, Council appropriated $3,053,718 of anticipated state and federal funding for the Sunbury Drive Drainage Project. Fourteen easements (some temporary and some permanent) are required to complete the project as designed. To date staff has acquired easements from six of the nine property owners. The contractor will soon be ready to begin the project. Staff is requesting authority to begin the condemnation process in order to start the notice period and reduce any potential project delay.
Background:
The City of Fayetteville has received $3,053,718 from the American Rescue Plan Funding from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund established in SL2021-180. The funding requires a strict acquisition process that must be followed in order to receive the funds.
The project the City has proposed involves a stormwater infrastructure improvement project along Sunbury Drive, Needham Drive, Rose Hill Road, and Pleasant Loop, in the Warrenwood Estates & Rosewood Terrace neighborhoods, to increase the capacity and capability to provide drainage to the area, and an appropriate level of flood protection. The pictures attached depict the level of flooding that is currently present in the neighborhoods above mentioned. The proposed improvements will increase the capacity of the local storm drainage system and allow it to meet the City's 10-year level of service for closed systems, and the 25-year level of service for open channel flow. The project will eliminate flooding within the City's rights of way for the designed level of service, mit...
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