2025-05-01 May 01, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting Minutes - FINAL
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May 01, 2025 6:00 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Human Resources Training Room Page 6 of 8 A. COW2025-055 Discussion regarding Windy Hill Paving request from Baldwin – Eric Randall Eric Randall, Public Works Director, explained that Baldwin Paving has asked permission to pave overnight. They sent a letter with a description of their plan, and it is as follows: Baldwin Paving would like to explain the sequencing of the paving operation when we place topping on the mainline as well as both the WB and EB local access lanes. See below. • Paving the mainline and local access roads and side streets will all take place a night until finished. • Baldwin will have traffic cops blocking the sections of road as we are paving on the local access roads. • Baldwin plans to pave the mainline lanes starting the night of May 8th, 2025. We will start with EB side starting just past Old Concord Rd toward South Cobb Drive intersection, skip the intersection and continue moving toward to Atlanta Road and flip and go WB from Atlanta Road back toward South Cobb Drive to Old Concord Rd. We will pave throughout the week until finished. We expect 4-5 nights to pave this portion. • Local Access - Will start on WB from Atlanta Rd moving toward South Cobb Drive then loop around and pave EB from South Cobb Drive toward Atlanta Rd • The first section will be WB from Atlanta Rd to Bridge #2; we will pave 15’ft wide pulls from the barrier wall • The second section will be WB from Bridge #2 to Bridge #1; we will pave 15’ft wide pulls from the barrier wall • The third section will be WB from Bridge #1 to South Cobb Drive; we will pave 15’ft wide pulls from the barrier wall • We will come back and start WB from Atlanta Rd to Bridge #2 and pave the remaining 4’ft and any side streets and continue the section sequence from Bridge #2 to Bridge #1 and then from Bridge #1 to South Cobb Drive. • We estimate that each local access road will take 3 nights to pave. • When we start on the EB side, we will pave 15’ft wide pulls like the WB side from South Cobb Drive to Bridge #1, then from Bridge #1 to Bridge #2, and last Bridge #2 to Atlanta Road. • Once the 15’ft pulls are complete, we will pave the remaining 4’ft pulls with the same sequence starting back from South Cobb Dr. to Bridge #1 and so forth. • Baldwin will have our striping sub onsite to stripe temp on final as the pave operation goes along Discussion took place regarding the timing of these road closures because it is graduation season and Mother’s Day weekend. This item will be added to the Consent Agenda. Mayor Norton discussed issues with Cobb County and the City of Mableton. Discussion took place about the street closures for the Market Village area. A reasonable compromise came forward that allowed for exit and entrance at the major openings and only closing the middle portions. This would only be during the times King Street is closed for safe access to the greenspace. The road closure item will be added to the Consent Agenda until an alternative comes forward so they are prepared for the Sundays to come. Mayor Norton also mentioned that the American Idol / Hometown Hero group contact the city to celebrate a local contestant. More information will come later. Richard Garland, Community Services Administrator, updated the Mayor and Council on the following projects: