8/20/2018 3:58:00 PM Residents to City Council: "no sidewalks"
Editor
A significant number of residents who filled the Stewartville Fire Hall for a public hearing on a proposed 2019 street project shared a clear message with the City Council last week, a message that could be summed up in four words: "We don't want sidewalks."
The proposed capital improvement project would include the reconstruction of water mains, curb and gutter, sub drains, and sanitary sewer, and adding bituminous overlay and sidewalks at the 400 block of Third Avenue Southeast, the 300 block of Fifth Street Southeast and the 400 and 500 blocks of Fourth Avenue Southeast.
Many of the residents from those neighborhoods told the City Council they don't want sidewalks near their homes. Mike Thompson, 519 Fourth Avenue Southeast, said he was part of a special committee that studied the need for sidewalks in the city during the 1990s...
For more on this story pick up your copy of the Aug. 21 Stewartville STAR.
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