The far western section of Muller Parkway gets some use as that part of Minden is built out.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Neither of the top projects on the Douglas County Five-Year Transportation Plan have funding attached.
The $3.5 million reconstruction of Johnson Lane from Heybourne Road to Vicki Lane will wait at least two years while the county seeks the money to conduct the work.
Design on the project is 90 percent complete.
Regional Transportation commissioners are scheduled to discuss the five-year plan 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1616 Eighth St.
The Johnson Lane project is at the top of the list for 2023-24 fiscal year, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s when it will be done.
Johnson Lane and the rest of northern Douglas County has been in the Carson Area Metropolitan Planning Organization since 2003, which makes it eligible for funding from state grants.
Included in the draft five-year plan is $300,000 to update the regional travel demand model in conjunction with the planning organization.
It will also be at least two years before the county breaks ground on two lanes of the $12 million Muller Lane Parkway project.
The Parkway project, which has been on the books in some fashion since the late 1980s, requires the county to build 2.4 miles of the parkway across Park Ranch Holdings land.
The county approved a $1.3 million contract with CA-Group to do the engineering last year
According to the draft plan, the road is scheduled for 2024-25. Under the agreement with the Parks, it must be completed by January 2026.
The county is also responsible for construction of two lanes of a half-mile of the Parkway just north of Toler Lane. An agreement splits the $1.8 million cost of the former Ashland Park subdivision segment between developers and the county.
Even if the county finished Muller Parkway next week, there are still several sections that are due to be completed by developers.
The section of the Parkway from where it ends just under a half-mile east of Highway 395 to the county’s section was supposed to be built by developers last year but has yet to see any work.
Developers of the Monterra subdivision are supposed to complete four lanes of the road, which the county estimates will cost $5.1 million. According to the plan, the former Ranch at Gardnerville may also have some responsibility for that work.
More than a mile of the parkway between where it ends south of Toler to Grant Avenue is subject to construction by the developers of Virginia Ranch “as needed.” That section of the road would be four lanes and is estimated to cost $6 million. Unlike other segments of the Parkway, that final segment is subject to a 2009 settlement agreement between the county and the owners of the Sierra Nevada SW Enterprises.
Approved in 2004, Virginia Ranch consists of 1,020 units on 126 acres located behind the Gardnerville Walmart. The settlement extended the life of the project to 2039.
