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Index: Crown Road Neighbors Group for Street Repairs.

Updated: Oct 24


Summary: The neighbors who live on Crown Road and adjacent Ranch House Road in Willow Park have spent most of 2024, speaking during Council Meetings, submitting petitions, and demanding attention from the City, all to restore the form and function of their properties damaged or changed by the City's Street Improvement Project.



Latest Update: updated 24 October 2024; posted 02 October, 2024

Note: Willow Park Civics is about Willow Park but is NOT associated with or managed by the City of Willow Park.





 

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Index: Crown Road Neighbors Group for Street Repairs.

The neighbors who live on Crown Road and adjacent Ranch House Road in Willow Park have spent most of 2024, speaking during a half dozen Council Meetings, submitting several petitions, and demanding attention from the City, all to restore the form and function of their properties damaged or changed by the City's Street Improvement Project.


Journal


• Results of Crown Rd Neighborhood survey on Speed Humps. Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 24 October 2024

This is an outstanding example of our what we can accomplish together." Crown Road Neighborhood Street Project. Last week, the Crown Road Neighborhood Street Project put out a call for feedback, from Crown Road residents, about the newly installed Speed Humps on Crown Road. In addition, the Project met with Mayor Moss. Here are the neighborhood feedback results and meeting notes of the discussion with Mayor Moss.


The neighbors who live on Crown Road and adjacent Ranch House Road in Willow Park have spent most of 2024, speaking during a half dozen Council Meetings, submitting several petitions, and demanding attention from the City, all to restore the form and function of their properties damaged or changed by the City's Street Improvement Project. Here are October - September 2024 emails from neighbors to neighbors, updating the City's actions. Details in linked blog.



On 26 September, 2024, the City of Willow Park posted a Road Work Notice indicating the installation of the Crown Road Speed Humps will be started and completed on 27 September, 2024. The original plan was to install seven Crown Road Speed Humps in order to calm the traffic speed to the posted 30 mph.  However, the City subsequently changed the number of Crown Road Speed Humps from seven to three, and then monitor and reevaluate as needed.


• 23 July 2024 Council Meeting, Agenda Item 6. Quarterly Department Reports / e. Public Works Streets/ Projects [in .pdf]

In the next several months:

• Driveway Approaches

• Jacob Martin and city staff met with the Crown Road and Ranch House Road residents to discuss the expansion of the driveway approaches.

• City’s expansion of the driveway approaches to meet the city’s minimum standard dimensions for drive approaches on streets with an overall width of 30 feet or more which was recommended to be 14 feet in width projected to the property line and an approach radius of 8 feet.

• Ditch Grading and Hydromulch

• The plans call for all slopes to be 3:1. Regrade the drainage channels as needed to meet the required side slopes.

• Hydromulch and water right-of-way areas to establish a uniform stand of the specified grasses.

• Speed Humps

• Install speed humps on Crown Road.


 For the fourth Council Meeting in a row, Citizens addressed the Council with their requests for the City to keep its promises made during the 2022 Street Improvement Project: to put the function of their driveways, bar ditches, and city easements back the way they were before the City's "Street Improvements." As reply, the City has developed new driveway standards, but current Willow Park private driveways are anything but standard.


• 25 June 2024 Council Meeting, Agenda Item 3.


• Brake It or Break It. New Speed Humps for Willow Park., Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 17 June 2024

The new cement streets in Willow Park are tempting drivers beyond that which they can bear -- and some bear down our 30 mph residential streets at 80 mph. Thanks to Willow Park Citizens, who keep bringing the problem to the City, the Willow Park Council has approved a new Speed Hump Policy and are starting installation of Speed Humps on Crown Road.


• 2. Discussion/Action: to consider installation of speed humps on Crown Road.

• 3. Discussion/Action: to consider maintenance on city right-of-ways on Crown and Ranch House Road.

• 4. Discussion/Action: to consider the expansion of driveway approaches for the 2022 Street Projects.

• 5. Discussion/Action: to approve a Speed Hump Installation Policy


 For the second City Council Meeting in a row, the Citizens along Crown Road and adjacent streets came before the City Council to insist the City keep its promise to leave Citizen property in the same condition or better than it was before the 2022 Street Improvement Project, which "improved" the the roads in front of their houses. And the 2022 Street Improvement Project will not be successful or complete until every resident has their property "put back the way it was" in form AND function.


• Agenda Item 2. Discussion/Action: to accept the presentations from Staff regarding the 2022 Street Projects


"My mother taught me to leave things better than I found them, but we are not experiencing that from you guys." A good summary of the issues that are plaguing many of those who live along the latest Willow Park street construction project. But this time the voices are loud enough to get the City's attention. Add your name and concerns to the list of corrections.


• 14 May 2024 Council Meeting, Public Comments


• Willow Park Street Improvement Projects, Index, Willow Park Civics Blog, 31 December 2023


• Street Improvement Projects, Crown Road, Willow Park Civics Blog, 09 May 2023




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