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RESOLUTION R-2021-93: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, CHANGING THE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF JAMES GARNER AVENUE BETWEEN ACRES STREET AND MAIN STREET FROM A LOCAL STREET TO A MINOR ARTERIAL IN NORMAN.
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BACKGROUND: The 2016 - Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) federal transportation funding bill allocates approximately $22 Million in Federal funds per year for the implementation of eligible transportation improvements in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Ten percent of this appropriation is used to fund safety projects at 100% of their construction cost.
In order to be eligible for this funding, the roadway on which any project is located must be on the functionally classified system. Over the years, functional classification has come to assume additional significance beyond its purpose as a framework for identifying the particular role of a roadway in moving vehicles through a network of highways. Functional classification carries with it expectations about roadway design, including its speed, capacity and relationship to existing and future land use development. Federal legislation continues to use functional classification in determining eligibility for funding under the Federal-aid program.
The 2019 Bond Project to improve James Garner Avenue between Acres Street and Duffy Street was deemed ineligible for federal funding during the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) Call for Projects for the FFY 2022-2025 Transportation Improvement Program because the segment of James Garner Avenue between Acres Street and Main Street, which is a portion of the project that was being submitted for funding, is not on the functionally classified system. As such, the phase of James Garner Avenue between Acres Street and Duffy Street was removed from Norman's submittal for the 2020 Call for Projects. The James Garner Avenue project, Phase 3, will be eligible to compete again in the 2021 Ca...
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