The City of Lawton and Comanche County intend to jointly apply for a grant from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to help finance the paving of roads in and around Robinson’s Landing at Lake Lawtonka.
Kenny Kinder, foreman for Comanche County District 3 Commissioner Josh Powers, wrote that “for the county’s part:”
• Residential roads will be resurfaced with two layers of oil-and-chip materials.
• The oil-and-chip seal mileage total is a little over two miles.
• Comanche County will provide any tinhorns that are needed in residential areas “without expectation of reimbursement.”
• Because the county’s portion in total mileage is shortened, the estimated funding requested for chip-and-seal is $170,000.
As for the City of Lawton:
• Direct access roads from Lake Road to the doc k area on the w est, and from Robinson’s Road to the dock area on the east, will be paved with 2 inches of hot-mix asphalt.
• The dock connector area (250 feet by 50 feet) also will r eceive 2 inches of hot-mix asphalt.
• The estimated cost of the ho tmix asphalt needed for those projects is $90,000.
“Please include this information as amendments to our Lake Access Program application, as we are Collaborating with the City of Lawton in this effort,” Kinder informed Jessica Hankins, local government project manager for District 5, Circuit Engineering District 7.
According to ODOT, the purpose of the lake and recreation access program is “to provide direct access to public user facilities located within the immediate vicinity of lakes and other recreation areas operated by” a state agency or one of the state’s political subdivisions, such as a city or county.
Criteria for selection of grantees includes:
• The project provides primary immediate access between local or state road systems and existing public facilities operated as part of a lake or recreation area.
• The project provides for circulation within and between the immediate public use areas associated with the facility.
• The size of the recreational facility that will be served.
• Existing access roads serving the same area.
• Availability of local assistance in “offsetting a portion of the cost of improvements (clearing, grading and roadbed preparation by local government or agency).