City OKs contract to build new sidewalks

The Alpharetta City Council has hired A1 Contracting LLC to construct sidewalks and close gaps on Charlotte Drive and Providence Road.

Plans call for about 1,910 linear feet of new sidewalk on the west side of Charlotte between two existing walks, from south of Old Place Drive to north of Lillian Drive, according to a staff report to the council. The project will ensure a contiguous sidewalk from Mid Broadwell to Rucker roads.

Also, two gaps will be closed on the west side of Providence: about 2,400 linear feet from the city limits to an existing walk north of Bates Road; and roughly 575 linear feet from an existing walk south of Bates to an existing walk north of Mayfield Road.

The completion of these segments will create a contiguous sidewalk from the city limits to Mayfield.

A1 Contracting’s bid of $926,423 for the Charlotte and Providence work was the lowest of seven bids received, staff said. The council also approved spending up to $20,000 to relocate a utility pole on Providence.

A measure authorizing the $200,000 study was passed by the council Nov. 26. Bodker, however, vetoed it because it called for consideration of a three-lane/ center-turn-lane alternative to the original plan to widen Jones Bridge to four lanes from Waters to State Bridge roads.

The four-lane plan was presented to voters before they approved the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax in November 2016. The three-lane concept reverses voters’ wishes, Bodker said in a prepared statement, and staff analysis “clearly shows the three-lane option will not relieve congestion on Jones Bridge Road.”

Bodker also cited a Dec. 3 courtesy review by the Georgia attorney general’s office, which he said confirmed his understanding of the law — that the city had to stick with the original plan for the project, as proposed to voters in the referendum. ing in 2007, and as sales manager for the Dunwoody Convention & Visitors Bureau starting in 2011; he later became director of sales for the Dunwoody group.

Williams, wife Ryan and their two children live in Cumming and plan to move to the Roswell area next year.