Title
153rd Street Bike Path Ashburn Church Easement
History
In May 2011 the Village hired CBBEL to engineer a bike path extension from 108th Avenue and 153rd Street to Wolf Road and 151st Street. This missing section of the Village’s bike path system will connect the subdivisions on the west side of town to Centennial Park and the center of town. CBBEL has developed a conceptual path alignment within the public road right of way; however CBBEL has noted that in some locations engineering costs will be higher due to grading, utility, and sub grade constraints. An alternative is to locate portions of the bike path in easements outside of the right of way when it is cost effective and where abutting land owners are agreeable. One such portion is a 932’ segment with a wet vegetated swale that runs along the Ashburn Baptist church frontage on 153rd Street. The easement would include an approximately 40’ X 800’ area for a total area of 32,000 square feet. The right of way location option requires special sub grade preparation and a guard rail along a path that would be very close to the road bed. The proposed easement location is easier to construct, requires no guard rail, and preserves most of the vegetated swale.
Village staff met with Ashburn Baptist Church and sent a letter requesting the easement be granted for the bike path. The church has agreed to the easement subject to four conditions.
1. “That the inspection fee for the platform elevator would be waived by the Village.”
Response: According to the church, at the time of the church building construction, they were required to construct a platform elevator that they say has never been used, but still requires two inspections per year. Ashburn originally requested that the inspections be discontinued, but is agreeable to waiver of fees instead. The platform elevator inspections must continue as a safety precaution per State Statute. The Village will agree to waive the inspections for a period of te...
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