CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of RFQ 23-094, Road Improvement Plan, to Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc., for an amount not to exceed $155,220 and for a two-year term
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: William J. Novack, P.E., Director of Transportation, Engineering and Development/City Engineer
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Naperville maintains approximately 500 centerline miles of streets, including numerous arterial and collector roadways. Traffic flow and congestion on major roads have been a long-standing concern identified through past community surveys. Minimizing congestion on arterial roads and intersections also reduces travel times, lowers emissions and reduces unnecessary traffic on neighborhood streets.
Acknowledging that new development results in additional traffic on City streets and that capacity improvements were needed to accommodate the additional traffic, the City of Naperville assessed a road impact fee between 1988 and 2008. The purpose of the fee was to assess developers for the proportionate share of the costs of the improvement of the arterial road system.
A key component of the impact fee process was the development of the Road Improvement Plan. This plan consists of several road corridor and intersection capacity improvements needed to meet a minimum level of service requirements within a 20-year timeframe. A detailed traffic model was developed to identify capacity deficiencies and new improvements. The projects included in the approved Road Improvement Plan were added to the City's Capital Improvement Plan. Many were implemented over the past 15 years.
Since the impact fee program was discontinued in 2008, and the associated model is approaching the end of its 20-year traffic projection, an updated high-level analysis of current and projected traffic conditions on the City's road network is needed.
In August 2024, the Tra...
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