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'4 • REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 8/09/10 Item No.: 11 . a Department Approval r~ Acting City Manager Approval G+lyx.t ~.~k Item Description: Conduct a Public Hearing and Consider a Request to Extend Working Hours for the Rice Street/ TH 36 Interchange Reconstruction Project 1 BACKGROUND 2 Lunda Construction, Inc. is the general contractor for the Rice Street/ TH 36 Interchange Reconstruction 3 Project. This project includes the reconstruction of Rice Street from County Road B to a point several a hundred feet north of County Road B-2. It also includes the reconstruction of the Rice Street/ TH 36 s interchange. This construction is currently underway. The City has received a request from them to s perform a portion of their work outside of normal work hours. z Their request requires a variance to City Code Section 405.03 HOURLY RESTRICTIONS OF CERTAIN s OPERATIONS which permits construction activities to occur between the hours of seven o'clock (7:00) • s A.M. and ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. on any weekday, or between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00) A.M. and 1 o nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. on any weekend or legal holidays. 11 -They are seeking the following variances for August 10 through November 30, 2010. 1z Weekdays: Start work at S:OOAM 13 Saturdays: Start work at 7:OOAM 1 a A variance to this section of code requires a Public Hearing before the City Council, per code section 1 s 405.04. The code requires that we send our Public Hearing notices to all properties within 500 feet of the 1 s corridor. Any comments that we receive will be shared with the City Council as a part of the Public 1 ~ Hearing. 1 s The corridor has a number of residential units located on it. The most concentrated is the 49 units at 19 Callibre Ridge Townhomes in the northwest quadrant of the interchange 20 POLICY OBJECTIVE 21 This construction project is expected to take two construction seasons. The Contractor is asking for the 22 variance so that they can work two back to back shifts on weekdays and a normal length work day on 23 Saturdays. This will allow for certain portions of the project to be completed by the end of this 2a construction season decreasing the impact to the areas north of Minnesota Ave. for the 2011 construction 2s season. 26 FINANCIAL IMPACTS 27 None identified. 28 STAFF RECOMMENDATION • 2s Consider a variance to extend the working hours for this project. 30 REQUESTED COUNCIL ACTION 31 Approve request to extend working hours for Rice Street TH 36 Interchange Reconstruction Project. Page 1 of 2