The Central West End Midtown Development Infrastructure Committee is going back to the drawing board after St. Louis city officials nixed its choice of the
Providence pedestrian lighting fixture for the Taylor Avenue lighting project. The chosen fixture will first be installed on Taylor between Lindell and Forest Park Avenue, with plans to eventually install the lights on residential streets throughout the CWE South as funds become available.
At the March 2009 CWEMD Infrastructure Committee, members chose four fixtures from the city’s list of pre-approved pedestrian lights. CWEMD staff will research pole options and photometrics for each fixture for review at the next Infrastructure Committee meeting, while committee members will view the lights in the neighborhoods where they are currently installed.
The lights currently being considered by the committee:
Kim
Lumec
ELA/Sterner
King Luminaire
CWEMD lighting consultant Ron Kurtz recommended the Kim Lighting Solitaire as the fixture that best follows the committee’s lighting standards, followed by the Lumec and the ELA/Sterner.
CWEMD Executive Director Dan Krasnoff informed committee members that the Euclid Streetscape Project did not receive funding from the East-West Gateway as part of the economic stimulus package. Members discussed options to raise funds for the project.
The committee also approved the following infrastructure projects to be funded from the 17th Ward city infrastructure account:
Active projects
Taylor pedestrian lighting, Lindell-Forest Park Avenue $176,417
CWE pedestrian fixtures $10,000
Alley repaving, Lindell/West Pine/Newstead/Boyle $12,105
Previous unfunded projects
Countdown signals at Kingshighway/West Pine and Kingshighway and Laclede $20,000
Cutoff cobrahead lights Laclede/South Court & Newstead between Forest Park Avenue to Laclede $15,000
Euclid Streetscape $70,000
New projects
Nine North streetscape $50,000
Duncan street repaving, Newstead to Boyle $40,000
Spring street repaving, Forest Park Avenue to Laclede $20,000
Laclede street repaving, Kingshighway to Euclid $30,000
Cutoff cobrahead lights Laclede/South Court & Newstead between Forest Park Avenue to Laclede $10,000
Irrigation, West Pine at Sarah & 44XX Laclede $14,000
Forest Park Avenue median planters $15,000
Draft 3.31.09 CWEMD Infrastructure Committee Minutes