HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 1986-013 RESOLUTION NO. 86-13
A RESOLUTION �F THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, PROVIDING THAT THE CITY
OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS ENDORSES THE DESIGN
CONFIGURATION OF STATE HIGHWAY 121 PREPARED
�'° BY TFiE STATE HIGHWAY 121 PLANNING COMMITTEE;
AND PROVIDING COMMENDATION TO CERTAIN
INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE PREPARATION OF
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WHEREAS, State Highway 121 traverses or is adjacent to the
cities of Grapevine, Texas, Flower Mound, Texas and Coppell,
Texas; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Highways and Public
Transportation has indicated that it plans to upgrade current
State Highway 121 to freeway status; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Grapevine, Flower Mound, and Coppell,
as sister cities, recognize the need to provide equal and
adequate access to each respective city; and
WHEREAS, in an attempt to analyze each city' s needs, and to
develop a plan that would provide access agreeable to each city,
Grapevine, Flower Mound and Coppell created the State Highway 121
Planning Committee consisting of the City Manager of each city,
the City Engineer of each city, a representative of each City
Council, and the Chairman of each city' s Planning and Zoning
Commission to analyze and develop a design configuration that
would accommodate each city and a design configuration upon
�" „ which each city would agree; and
�,.� WHEREAS, in a cooperative effort the State Highway 121
Planning Committee developed the design configuration more
particularly described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a
part hereof and which design configuration was uninamously
accepted by all members of such committee; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Grapevine, Flower Mound, and Coppell
now desire to revise their respective master thoroughfare plans
to accommodate a common intersection and access points along the
proposed freeway; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Grapevine, Flower Mound, and Coppell
have agreed to and support the desiqn configuration more
particularly described on Exhibit "A" ;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE,
TEXAS:
Section 1. That the City of Grapevine, Texas hereby
endorses and supports the design configuration described on
Exhibit "A" and hereby respectfully requests that the State
Department of Highways and Public Transportation adopt the design
configuration described on Exhibit "A" as the official plan of
the State of Texas for that portion of State Highway 121
described on Exhibit "A" .
� Section 2 . That the City of Grapevine, Texas commends the
State Highway �21 Planning Committee, the work of Mr. Bob
Yielding, and the work of its sister cities for the cooperation,
conception and preparation of the design configuration presented
on Exhibit "A" .
Section 3 . That this resolution shall take effect from and
after its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this 15th day of A,pril , 1986.
APPROVED:
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Secretary
• APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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Attachment to Resolution
No. 86-13 per Council action
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COMMISSION STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ENGINEER-DIRECTOR
ROBERT C. LANIER,CHAIRMAN AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION MARK G.GOODE
THOMAS M. DUNNING P. O. �OX �H�H �
RAYSTOKER,.,R. Fort Worth� T2XdS �EII�J
April 23, i986
IN REPLY REFER TO
FILE NO.
SH 121 North of SH 26 and
Proposed FM 2499
Mr. J. R. Baddaker, P.E.
Director af Public Works
City of Grapevine
P. 0. Box 729
Grapevine, Texas 76051
Dear Mr. Baddaker:
We have reviewed the prelimir�ary geometric for the above location which you
submitted to me on your recent visit to my office. The location for the exit
ramp to the proposed FiN 249g and SH 26 is satisfactory to this District.
Should yo� have any questions concerning this subject, �iease feel free to
call me.
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Yours very truly,
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Billy A. Hardie
District Design Engineer
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