Agreements With Landowners OKed by Council as Alice's Road Project Proceeds

The Waukee City Council unanimously approved agreements Thursday night with a group of landowners along the route of the Alice's Road project, the Des Moines Register reports.

The votes at a special City Council meeting continue progress on the plan to pave a six-lane road leading to a planned Interstate Highway 80 interchange at Waukee.

The property easements allow the city to extend Alice’s Road on land owned by the Richard W. Giles Revocable Trust, Beasley Farms Inc. and Ashworth Properties Development Inc., the newspaper said.

In exchange for the right of way, the city will grade six lanes of road and install storm sewers, water mains, and three lanes of paved road, according to city documents.

Tentative plans are in the works to approve agreements with two other landowners — K.E. Brewer LLC and Lolowau LLC — that are key to the project, interim city administrator Brad Deets told the Register. The land is between Ashworth Road and University Avenue, to the north and west of Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines.

Approving the agreements is significant to the future of Waukee and the surrounding area, Mayor Bill Peard told the newspaper.

“This is going to accelerate that Alice’s Road corridor project like no other,” Peard said.