Agenda Item: 7(e)
Prepared By: Justin Martin, P.E., Director
Business: Consent Agenda Resolution
Department: Public Works
Subject:
Title
Resolution - Approving Amendments to the City of Marco Island Construction Standards Handbook for Work Within the Right-of-Way - Justin Martin, P.E., Director, Public Works
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BACKGROUND:
This amendment of the City's "Construction Standards Handbook for Work Within the Right of Way" the ("Handbook") consists of the following changes:
1. In Section 1, update the definitions of the following terms:
22. "Invert Elevation"
44. "Sidewalk"
45. "Shared Use Path"
2. In Section 3, Paragraph 1, replace the phrase "be accord" with "be in accordance."
3. In Section 7, "Standard Requirements for Work," add items t., u., v. in subsection 1, "Standard Permitting Requirements", as follows:
* Item t. clarifies that improvements, repairs, modifications, or replacements to driveways, sidewalks, drainage, swales, irrigation, sod/ground cover, grading, or landscape planting require a right of way permit and that existing improvements within the right of way must be brought into conformance with the Construction Standards Handbook.
* Item u. indicates that gravel, stone, river rock, and artificial turf are prohibited within the right of way.
* Item v. indicates that culvert inlet box systems shall only be permitted as deemed necessary by the Public Works director.
4. In Section 11, "Storm Drainage Improvements," remove corrugated steel pipe and corrugated aluminum pipe as acceptable materials from subsection f., "Materials and Construction" and replace with "Corrugated Polypropylene Pipe," including required specifications
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5. In Section 13, "Sod and Approved Groundcover Species Placement," add "Zoysa" as an approved grass sod type.
6. Rename Section 14, "Sidewalk Construction" to "Sidewalk/Shared Use Path Construction."
7. In Section 14, "Sidewalk/Shared Use Path Construction," change the sidewalk minimum thickness from f...
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