For City Council Meeting [September 13 ,2022]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Marcus Fuller, City Manager
FROM: Marcus Fuller, Acting City Engineer
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Request City Council to Authorize the Release of Request for Bids No. 23-012 for the Traffic Signal Modification and Median Reconfiguration at Riverside Avenue and Senior Way, City Project No. 230806.
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BACKGROUND
On November 8, 2021, the City Council, acting in its capacity as the governing board of the Successor Agency to the Rialto Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") and in its capacity as the City Council of the City of Rialto ("City"), approved the Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA"), by and between the Agency, the City, and NewMark Merrill Companies, Inc. ("Developer"), relating to the sale of 15.09 acres located west of Riverside Avenue and North of Valley Boulevard (the "Property").
On January 12, 2022, the Planning Commission of the City of Rialto approved Precise Plan of Design 2021-0059 for a new commercial-retail shopping center ("Rialto Village") on the property to be constructed by the Developer. The entitlement includes construction of various commercial retail buildings, drive-thru fast-food restaurants, and an automated car wash. The main access point into Rialto Village will be from the existing intersection of Riverside Avenue and Senior Way, which is currently a 3-way intersection with traffic signal control.
On March 8, 2022, the City Council approved the First Amendment to the Purchase and Sale Agreement (the "Amendment"). The Amendment obligated the City to, at its own cost and expense, design, construct and install a modification of the existing traffic signal at Riverside Avenue and Senior Way to add the west leg into the property, adding a northbound left turn phase and modifying the existing signal poles, mast arms and/or signal heads as necessary to make the traffic signal system fully operational, and modifying the existing raised/landscaped median on Riverside ...
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