Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 831]

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1967]

UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

779

Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Jones, Mr. S w a i n ; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Dr. Weatherly.

AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF URBANA FOR W I D E N I N G AND IMPROVING PARTS OF LINCOLN A V E N U E , ILLINOIS STREET. OREGON STREET, AND GREGORY PLACE (21) T h e President of the University recommends that the Board authorize its Comptroller and Secretary to execute an agreement with the city of Urbana to share in the costs of improving the following streets: Lincoln Avenue from Green Street to Nevada Street; Illinois Street from Lincoln Avenue to Goodwin Avenue; Oregon Street from Lincoln Avenue to Goodwin A v e n u e ; and Gregory Place from Illinois Street to Nevada Street. T h e city of Urbana, in a phased program and in accordance with the Major Street and Highway Plan for the Champaign-Urbana Urban Area (Harland Bartholomew & Associates, I960) has widened or is in the process of widening Lincoln Avenue in all areas north of Florida Avenue except this segment. This will complete the City's program of widening Lincoln Avenue to forty-four feet from Florida to Interstate Route F A 74. T h e widening and improving of the remaining streets will make a major contribution in serving traffic to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts now under construction, the proposed Music Building, and the Illinois Street Residence Halls as well as future developments in the area. T h e City has indicated its willingness to proceed with these projects if the University will share in the total costs of the improvements based on the ratio of University-owned property frontage to total property frontage. The total cost is estimated at $560,000, with the University's share at approximately $260,000. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University, subject to release by the Governor. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d b y the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . H a h n , M r . H u g h e s , M r . Johnston, M r . Jones, M r . S w a i n ; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Dr. Weatherly. AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF URBANA, TOWNSHIPS OF URBANA AND CHAMPAIGN, AND STATE OF ILLINOIS FOR PAVING PORTIONS OF SOUTH FIRST STREET ROAD AND SOUTH LINCOLN AVENUE (22) T h e Executive Committee of the Board at its meeting on August 31, 1967, authorized the employment of Sodemann & Associates, Champaign, for complete engineering services for the paving of South First Street Road from St. Mary's Road to the entrance of the Children's Research and Adler Zone Centers; and Lincoln Avenue from Florida Avenue to the entrance to the south right-of-way line of George Huff Drive extended. The rights of way are under the jurisdiction of the city of Urbana and the townships of Urbana and Champaign. The governing bodies have indicated a willingness for the University to undertake these improvements at its expense and are agreeable to vacating these rights of way and thereby vesting title to the rights of way in the University as the abutting owner. T h e University owns the property abutting these proposed improvements on both sides except the site of the State Office Building now under construction on South First Street Road and on which the University recently transferred title to the state of Illinois. The University has for a number of years performed most of the maintenance and snow removal on these roads. The improvements proposed will include permanent concrete streets fortyfour feet wide and will provide all-weather access to the Children's Research Center, the Firemanship Training facility, the Adler Zone Center, and the State Office Building on South First Street Road and the proposed new Small Animal Clinic and other future facilities for the College of Veterinary Medicine.