Title
Porters Neighborhood (B)
Explanation
The CRA is leading a multi-department effort to institute improvements in the Porters Neighborhood. Staff aims to implement an array of improvements, enhancements, and upgrades to the area and is currently undertaking activities that will provide both long term and immediate benefit to the community. Along with team members from Public Works, GRU, Codes Enforcement, Housing, Planning, and GPD, staff has identified three main corridors through the neighborhood where improvement efforts will be focused. The chosen corridors, SW 5th Street, SW 3rd Street, SW 4th Avenue, and SW 5th Avenue are physically and functionally major backbones that define the neighborhood. By targeting these important corridors, staff hopes to achieve maximum impact within the neighborhood.
One major goal is to provide large-scale infrastructure improvements within the neighborhood. In order to achieve this purpose, staff is coordinating with Public Works and GRU to conduct surveys along the main corridors in the community. The Porters area is an older neighborhood, and as such, available information regarding infrastructure and utilities is largely inadequate to support the level of improvements needed. Therefore, the first step in providing enhancements to the neighborhood is the execution of detailed surveys. Surveys along SW 5th Street and SW 3rd Street are being funded by Public Works through CDBG grants. Building on this activity, GRU has agreed to fund surveying along SW 5th Avenue, as the utility company has designated this corridor for future utility undergrounding. The Purchase Order for these surveys is being finalized and work is anticipated to commence as soon as possible.
The surveys will serve as building blocks for large-scale infrastructure improvements in the community. Working with our interdepartmental team, staff has drafted a scope for engineering feasibility studies which will build on t...
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