# Kurt Jones Kurt Jones, P.E., is an engineer in the Transportation Department at the [[City of Conway]] who served as the City-side counterparty for [[EMH&T]] on Project Stratus stormwater design coordination beginning January 21, 2025 — earlier than any other public appearance of the project in the corpus. Jones handles the City's drainage criteria and stormwater compliance authority. ## Role and affiliations - Transportation Department, City of Conway, P.E. (Professional Engineer). - Phone: 501.358.6314. - Email: `[email protected]`. ## Appearances in the corpus - **2025-01-21 onward** — [[Project Stratus Permits Sequencing and Stormwater|Project Stratus Stormwater Call Request]] thread with [[EMH&T]]'s Robert McCurnin and Mariah Anderson PE. Jones explained Conway's Drainage Criteria Manual § 7.2 detention-waiver authority and the freeboard requirement (1-foot above 100-year water surface) the project would need to meet for emergency-spillway design. - **2025-06-17** — recipient of [[Corey Parks]]'s Stratus Required Permits decision-matrix request alongside [[Anne Tucker]]. ## Notes Jones's January 21, 2025 email to EMH&T is the earliest dated Project Stratus reference in the corpus. The exchange (Jones explaining Conway's drainage criteria; EMH&T's Robert McCurnin asking questions about detention-waiver eligibility; EMH&T's Mariah Anderson sketching her interpretation of the freeboard requirement) shows the project was operationally already underway weeks before the City Council voted on the MOU. Jones's signaling on a possible detention-waiver — "our policy has historically been to grant a waiver in situations where the development directly borders a FEMA regulated flood hazard area" — is a substantive accommodation: the Project Stratus site borders C.L. Tucker Creek and is within or adjacent to the Arkansas River floodplain. The waiver would reduce on-site detention infrastructure requirements (a meaningful cost/space savings for the developer).