The Powell City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 47 Hall Street, Powell, Ohio. Business included a bridge type presentation for the Scioto Street Extension, routine consent items, three resolutions covering veterans recognition, parks master plans, and playground equipment, and a detailed discussion of the rewrite of the city's planning and zoning code.
I will call the July 21st, 2026 Powell City Council meeting to order. Elaine, will you please call the role? Yes. Thank you. Leaf Carlson? Here. Tom Count? Here. Carlos Crawford. Tyler Herman. Not present. Heather Carr? Yeah. Kevin Lester. Here. Kurt Rampe. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge Allegiance of the United States of America. And then to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So I will apologize in advance. We have a very heavy agenda this evening, so we're going to get right into it. The first item on the agenda is a presentation. It is the Scieta Street Extension Bridge Type Analysis presented by Aaron Stanford, our city engineer. Mike Murray, American Structure Point, and Sage Flanagan with American Structure Point. This is something we've been at for quite a while. Some of these plans go back over a decade. What's before council tonight is a recommendation, one of three that's been submitted for the bridge span that will become part of phase two's project. Council's action tonight is not indicative of any specific course of action. It's an assignment of a concept that will then be further driven to specific set of design, uh, land acquisition and construction. So with that, I'll turn it over to Aaron and he can do his presentation and we'll take questions at uh at the end. Thank you. Thank you, Andy, and members of council. Um, as Andy indicated, uh, we're here before you tonight as a pretty important interim milestone in our design process. When we first set um this design contract up, what we wanted to do was have a point in the phase two design where we looked at and provided three separate options for the the stream crossing that we'll talk about here in a minute, um, which is very important not only to what that structure can mean, not only to our network but to the community, but it also obviously impacts uh budget, schedule, and the design. So as we got to this point, we're gonna bring forward the analysis, the recommendation, um, and from there with the recommendation, we'll keep American structure point on their design, um, giving some guidance on what that structure should be. As we uh previously mentioned, I'm making the presentation today. We're we're joined here by Mike Murray and Sage Flanagan. They're here if we have any technical questions, they're here and available. Um, just a real brief overview of the project. So the area that we're talking about is is kind of midway in that Soada Street extension. Uh there's the Bartholomew Run is the stream that travels through there, um, which necessitates um either a culvert bridge uh being constructed as part of the project. Uh a little bit more background in the project. It's being currently designed in two separate phases. So currently we're working on the public parking area, and then the site street extension from Liberty to the western edge of this bridge. This the second phase will include the bridge, um, some of the abutments, the walls, the plaza, and the roundabout and the extension over to Grace. The bridge type study, it's a preliminary engineering report, and we use it to evaluate, compare, and select the most feasible and cost-effective bridge design in a specific site. So some of the things that we'll look for is the bridge type. We'll look at the flood weight of the floodplain we have to span if there's constraints, either financially, physically, uh, we'll look at some environmental impacts and of course construction cost.