Staff recommends that the City Council accept the Sidewalk Easement with Josephine Corner Apartments, LLC. and the Traffic Signal Fixtures and Sidewalk Easement with the Roman Catholic Bishop of Great Falls.

W.O. 22-07 Mullowney Lane Improvements will be constructed in 2023 pending Council approval of the bid award. During the design process, Staff pursued two easements needed to place sidewalk, traffic signal fixtures, and ADA improvements. The first sidewalk easement with Josephine Corner Apartments, LLC. was intended to be recorded in 2017 for the Josephine Corner Townhomes Phase 2 Site Plan, and never was completed. The sidewalk improvements are in-place and 7.5 feet of the sidewalk path is on the private side of the right-of-way. The sidewalk easement will allow the public use of the 7.5 feet of the concrete sidewalk path on Mullowney Lane along the frontage of Josephine Corner Apartments as intended.

The second easement from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Great Falls provides space at the southeast corner of the intersection of Mullowney Lane/Elysian Road Intersection to install traffic signal fixtures and construct a corner curb radius with ADA ramps.

City Council may:

• Accept the sidewalk easement with Josephine Corner Apartments and the traffic fixtures and sidewalk easement with the Roman Catholic Church; or,
• Do not accept the sidewalk easement with Josephine Corner Apartments and traffic fixtures and sidewalk easement with the Roman Catholic Church. If the sidewalk easement is not accepted, part of the multi-use path in front of the Josephine Corner Apartments will be on private property. If the traffic fixtures and sidewalk easement is not accepted, the improvements at the southeast corner of the intersection of Mullowney Lane/Elysian Road cannot be completed to ADA standards.

There are no fiscal impacts.  The property owners provided the easements at no cost to the City.