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EOG ft�GL 11.G.1. RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSING. ABANDONMENT, VACATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF THE 71ST STREET (CEMETERY ROADI RAILWAY CROSSING AND THE INSTALLATION OF AN F.E.C. RAILROAD CROSSING AT 53RDSTREET The Board reviewed a Memorandum of January 10, 2000: TO: James Chandler, County Administrator THROUGH: James W. Davis, P.E., Public Works Director` Z„/ AND Christopher J. Kafer, Jr., P.E., County EngineerG' FROM: Robert S. Skok, Civil Engineer SUBJECT: Opening New Florida East Coast Railway Crossing at 53rd Street / Closing of Florida East Coast Railway Crossing at 71' Street DATE: January 10, 2000 Staff has initiated talks with the Florida Department of Transportation (the jurisdictional agency) in obtaining a Florida East Coast Railway Crossing at 53'd Street to provide development of 53'd Street into a rural arterial road as outlined in Chapter 4 of the Indian River County 2020 Comprehensive Plan. The FDOT has stated Indian River County is "built -out" with railway crossings and to obtain a new crossing, an existing crossing would have to be closed. At this time, closing the 71' Street (Cemetery Road) crossing appears to be the most feasible. Since 71" Street is not a through street, traffic volume is very low. The road is approximately 0.4 miles long, serving a church with a school, a cemetery, a concrete plant, and several businesses. Local traffic could be routed to 69" Street to cross the railway. ALTERNATIVES ANIS ANALYSTS Staff has researched an alternative route to 69th Street (N. Winter Beach Road) for property owners along 71' Street. Leonard Hatala's property (west of railway), connects 71' Street to the north and 69" Street to the south. Mr. Hatala would be willing to sell a seventy foot (70') wide strip of land through his property to the County for access from 715` Street to 69' Street, which has a railway crossing to Old Dixie Highway and US #1. Mr. Hatala's property is split with part being zoned residential and part zoned industrial (see attached). The seventy foot (70') wide strip of land from 7151 Street to 69" Street would require 2.0532 acres of land from Mr. Hatala, (0.76 acres of residential zoning and 1.2932 acres of industrial). His selling price for the land is $25,000.00 per acre of residential -zoned land and $50,000.00 per acre of industrial zoned land, based on recent sales of parcels similar in zoning and location. The total sales price would be Eighty Three Thousand, Eight Hundred Forty Five Dollars and twenty-five cents ($83,845.25). JANUARY 18, 2000