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Street improvements plans

Street improvements plans

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Street improvements plans

- [Instructor] Many projects will include at least some required changes to the street, the curbs, or the sidewalks located out in that public right-of-way adjacent to the private property where the project's located. And I'm going to refer to all of these things as street improvements. On this project, the street improvements are included in the existing site conditions plan, and they're also shown over here on the grading and site plan. Now if there were extensive street improvements to be done out in the right-of-way, like adding a turn lane or installing traffic signals, you could probably expect to find an entirely separate set of street improvement drawings, for example this one that is dedicated just to the road and street construction. But let's jump back to our particular project, and look at street improvements on a typical building construction job. We'll do that by starting with our existing conditions and…

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