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A portion of Springdale Avenue may be getting some much-needed work in the coming weeks.
According to the agenda for today's City Council meeting, Mark Roetzer, city DPW director, has determined Springdale Avenue can be milled and paved without a full reconstruction of the street while also creating water retention areas in city-owned rights of ways to address water runoff and snow removal problems.
Springdale Avenue residents had petitioned the city to proceed with the work, which will be paid for with state Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding. The road will remain an unconstructed road under the City Charter. At least 10 Springdale Avenue homeowners have responded to the city's request thus far.
"This month, our staff met with a number of homeowners from the unconstructed portion of the dead end of Springdale Avenue to discuss the possibility of a street reconstruction," Roetzer wrote in a letter to Springdale Avenue residents. "As that portion has never been officially constructed by the city, the City Code requires the property owner shares in the cost of the reconstruction. However, we can make structural changes to the road that will allow us to pave the road and add drainage. This would be funded using state roadway funds. The street would remain unconstructed and would not include curbing or sidewalks."
The council's Housing Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the police training room on the fourth floor of City Hall followed at 7 p.m. by the Finance (mayor's conference room), Public Safety, police training room) and Public Works committees (Development Department conference room).
Finance Committee members are also expected to discuss the proposal to give code officers the ability to ticket property owners for quality of life code enforcement violations as well as a bond for municipal building work.
If adopted, Crystal Surdyk, city development director, said the local law will allow code enforcement officers to immediately issue tickets "upon inspection" for animal maintenance, junk and debris, high weeds and grass, dangerous trees, unauthorized motor vehicles and illegal burns. She said there will have to be some "procedural things that are put in place" with the adoption of the local law, including the collecting of fines and addressing potential impacts to the court clerk's office. On the other end, fines will be discharged for violations that are "remediated" within 48 hours of being issued.