Increase the total project budget of Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Project # 42037 Yuma Road, Canyon Trails to Sarival and authorize related budget amendments.

Approve a budget increase of $2.37 million for Capital Improvement Program Project #42037 Yuma Road, Canyon Trails to Sarival and related budget amendments. (Hugh Bigalk, City Traffic Engineer; Allan Smolko, Sr. Project Manager)

Project #42037 Yuma Road, Canyon Trails to Sarival, is currently programmed in the Five-Year CIP with a total budget of $3.96 million. The proposed change increases the total project budget from $3.96 to $6.33 million. The additional funding of $2.37 million is for additional land acquisition and increased construction costs associated with the general cost increases, drainage requirements and site specific requirements. The project is 100% funded by development impacts fees and unallocated funding is available in the North Street Development Impact Fee Fund.

Project # 42037 was approved by Council as part of the FY2023-27 CIP to improve Yuma Road to its ultimate cross-section between Canyon Trails Boulevard and Sarival Avenue. Improvements will widen Yuma Road to provide three vehicle lanes with a bike lane, plus median, curb and gutter, sidewalks, and drainage.

The additional $2.37 million being requested includes $390,000 for land acquisition to purchase a vacant Vanderbilt Farms residential lot to meet stormwater retention requirements. The additional $1,980,000 being requested is for construction activities to restore in-kind landscaping to properties along Yuma, landscape the retention area to meet Vanderbilt Farms landscape standards, construct the storm drainage system, provide transitional roadway improvements, and respond to cost escalation since the project was conceived. 

The Vanderbilt Farms community was originally developed in Maricopa County then annexed into the City of Goodyear. Homes exist along the south side of Yuma with well-established mature landscape. Staff developed a stormwater retention strategy that would result in the least impact to the Vanderbilt Farm community. Staff determined purchasing an undeveloped residential lot within Vanderbilt Farms on the far western edge of the project had the lowest impact to each residential lot fronting the south side of Yuma Road. The additional right of way being purchased is to accommodate lane travel and pedestrian sidewalks.

Additional project costs are derived from enhanced landscape restoration efforts to the existing mature street scape along the south side of Yuma Road and the land surrounding the stormwater retention residential lot. The restoration efforts are aimed at mitigating construction impacts to residents and to enhance the purchased lot. Costs also include transitional roadway improvements entering and leaving the original project limits east of Sarival and west of Canyon Trails. 

To remove the Vanderbilt Farms Homeowners Association’s Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) requirements the city is exercising Eminent Domain to acquire the property.