DRMP aided the City in the selection of property for the public works facility, fire station, water ground storage tank, and wastewater pump station, and performed a due diligence for the subject property. After the City purchased the property, DRMP was involved with the Master Planning efforts of the 20-acre parcel and associated development. The Master Planning effort involved incorporation of the needs of the surrounding community to buffer the lights and noise from the public works yard.

The existing Keller Road ballfield property and the newly acquired Public Works/West Side Fire Station/Ground Storage Tank/Wastewater Pump Station site was combined into one parcel of approximately 20 acres, and rezoned to a Planned Development to allow for public/semi-public use. A master site plan was included with the Final PD submittal to illustrate the proposed development.

The development includes the construction of the Public Works Yard consisting of a Grounds Maintenance Building, Fleet Maintenance Building and an Office/Shops 2-story Building. The Office/Shops Building is connected to the existing Water Building by a covered-bridge walkway spanning an 18-inch raw water line that is buried between the buildings. In addition to the Public Works Yard, the site includes the West Side Fire Station, a new 750,000-gallon potable water ground storage tank, the restoration of the existing 750,000-gallon ground storage tank, a 160 gpm, 10 horsepower submersible wastewater pump station, as well as general park/recreational areas. A regional pond was also designed on the west side of the site for stormwater treatment for the proposed development as well as off-site construction.

The offsite construction included the Keller Road and Fennell Street widenings with a traffic signal at this intersection. Typical sections and limits of the proposed widenings were illustrated on the roadway plan sheets included in the PD submittal package. Existing roadside swales and on-site retention ponds were filled, with the stormwater piped to the regional pond system. The traffic signal is fully signalized at this intersection. Additional offsite construction also includes the milling and resurfacing of Keller Road south of the widened section to the approximate southern City limits. Once the City acquires the additional right-of-way on the west side of Keller Road south of the intersection, the roadway can eventually be widened to the southern City limits. This future widening was not included in this contract.

With the rezoning of the site, the existing property boundary will be modified on the southern limits by additional right-of-way required for the Fennell Street widening. Therefore, the 20-acre site is reduced to approximately 17 acres due to the dedication of additional right-of-way. Setback lines and buffer zones are measured from the proposed property boundary to account for the additional right-of-way on the southern boundary limit. The northern, eastern and western existing property boundary lines will not be revised. However, some site development does encroach within the northern right-of-way limits outside the property boundary for the purposes of site buffering and site constraints.

The site plan and data sheets included in the plan set provided information on the proposed development as described above. Parking requirements were coordinated directly with the City to account for existing and proposed equipment as well as personal vehicle parking spaces. Special landscaping requests by the City were addressed by buffering the surrounding residences from the Public Works Yard with landscape buffer zones by use of the natural site conditions as well as added landscape material. Fountains in the pond will provide an amenity to the site development creating a park atmosphere. Meandering sidewalks as well as bike paths along the roadways provide a pedestrian/bike 'friendly' site.