WEEK OF AUGUST 17, 2023
VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 36
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County, Parker enter IGA for $20M road extension
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BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Parker Town Council approved an Intergovernmental Agreement, or IGA, with Douglas County to share construction costs related to the ongoing Dransfeldt Road Extension Project. While still needing final approval from the Douglas County Commission, the IGA calls for the county to contribute $8 million to the estimated $20 million project. The extension involves Dransfeldt Road south of Twenty Mile Road, over Cherry Creek, connecting to Motsenbocker Road. Part of the expansion is located in unincorporated Douglas County, requiring the coordinated effort. The original agreement for the design was amended in 2019, again in 2021 and 2022 for funding to complete the project design. The extension includes improvements to Motsenbocker Road from the Todd Drive intersection to the proposed new Dransfeldt and Motsenbocker intersection as well as improvements from the new Dransfeldt and Motsenbocker intersection to the Longland Parkway intersection. Douglas County requested a new IGA for construction funding rather than continuously re-amending the existing agreement. “Both the town, staff and county staff thought that it was better if we just started a new IGA to fund the construction effort of this project,” said Director of Public Works and Engineering Tom Williams. According to a document provided to the town, this construction IGA acknowledges the town’s other agreement with the Mile High Flood District and the Cherry
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Vicinity map of the Dransfeldt Road Extension to Motsenbocker Road. The map shows the proposed Motsenbocker Road alignment and the proposed Dransfeldt COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF PARKER ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS Road crossing of Cherry Creek.
Creek Basin Water Quality Authority for the floodway improvements. As part of the expansion, crews plan to build the bridge as a three lane section. “We have designed and will construct the superstructure — which
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is the foundation of the bridge,” said Williams. “If it ever does need to be widened in the future, we can accommodate that for future expansion.”
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