CC - Agendas - City Council - REGULAR - 11/28/2017

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of the Airport Connector link to SR 89A — due both to the freeway design of the Airport Connector and to limited funds. Facilitating an alternative east-west link is therefore desired. One response is to gain a trail alignment north of and parallel to the airport connector ROW, allowing bicyclists and pedestrians a safe route from Pioneer Parkway to the Peavine Trail. Another desirable east-west link is the former railroad bed that connects the Peavine Trail near Glassford Hill Road running eastward to Prescott Valley. The Town is pursuing grants for this acquisition. An improved trailhead is also desired at the existing informal parking area at Side Road and old 89A. The next segment of the Peavine Trail north of SR 89A is presently under acquisition negotiations and will require some adjustments to the original railroad bed alignment. Safety is primary for trail users in this increasingly busy area. A trail adjustment eastward will be necessary to accommodate extensions of the main and parallel runways, and is also to skirt the heavy aggregate extraction within Granite Creek wash. The trail can be included in the design of the airport circumferential road or even be realigned to the east side of the wash if plans and mining operations can ensure a safe and pleasant trail alignment. Also until the grade-separated Side Road interchange is constructed, the trail will use Airport Connector right-of-way to cross under the connector at Granite Creek and then regain the original north-south trail. The Side Road overpass will replace this detour once construction funds are budgeted. Last where Ruger Road would be extended northeastward, the trail might best go under the road through a culvert at the CVID ditch. The condition of Side Road itself has been a problem for the dozen or so homes that use this private, narrow unpaved access easement. Because of the street conditions, sanitation trucks are not able to service the individual houses, which have increased in number through metes and bounds land splitting. These homes also rely on individual well and septic due to lack of nearby water and sewer mains. The RA 9 area is less than 1 mile from the crosswind runway, and is of primary concern to the Airport Advisory Board as a residential use. Options include 1) do nothing for this area of substandard infrastructure, 2) work with property owners to create an improvement district for street/water/sewer improvements, or 3) consider a partnership between the City and the property owners whereby the city funds all or most of the improvements in exchange for (re)development that is nonresidential. If the 3rd option is pursued, it should extend to other vacant land west of Side Road known as Country Dells. The Side Road constructed to city standards within a 50-ft. wide public right-of-way (ROW) could be a combination of the existing easement, existing County ROW, and a portion of Peavine Trail 100- ft. wide ROW. Side Road would need to be improved northward to its planned intersection with the Airport Connector. Approved AIRPORT SPECIFIC AREA PLAN (ASAP) A. INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION for AIRPORT PROTECTION, A.1 Yavapai County will be relied upon to support the ASAP Goals, Objectives, and Policies by agreeing to hold to existing zoning and to not increase densities or intensities of development beyond what is already entitled. ASAP property owners under County jurisdiction will therefore need to request annexation by a neighboring municipality to acquire rezonings, central water and sewer service, and city services sufficient to support urban/suburban development intensities. If no annexation has occurred within 5 years, the County may approve developments if in keeping with the adopted ASAP policies pertaining to airport protection, open space, and water management. 20