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February 16, 1977
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES - Page 15
Front St. residents split on new paving plan
Front Street residents
are divided over Marietta
Council's plan to re-pave
their street.
Many residents of the
blocks between Perry and
Gay Streets are upset
because the paving job will
destroy big trees and wreck
meeting on the
the 110 year-old brick and
stone pavements of their
blocks. Residents of other
blocks enthusiastically sup-
port the paving plan.
Council held a public
: subject
Monday evening. About 15
citizens showed up. Most
opposed the project, but
supporters of the plan are
busy rallying support for
their point of view.
On Thursday, Council
will vote on the paving
proposal. Both supporters
and opponents are circula-
ting petitions among Front
Wants pavement
Ruth Andrews
“I'm definitely in favor
of paving the street,”’ says
Ruth Andrews of 460 E.
Front Street. ‘‘Either that
or I'll have to get a horse
and buggy for a dirt road.”
Mrs. Andrews is circu-
lating a petition among the
Council
(cont’d)
(continued from Page 8)
commission and the Mari-
etta planning commission.
Council drew up a reso-
lution providing for moder-
ate reconstructing and pav-
ing Front Street from Perry
to Waterford Avenue. The
work will cost an estimated
$29,500, to be paid for by
liquid fuel tax money.
The resolution also in-
cluded the resurfacing of
Longenecker Avenue at a
projected ‘cost of $3,800,
and of Mulberry Street, at
a cost of $568.
When the resolution is
passed, residents of Front
Street in those sections
‘where complete reconstruc-
4 tion or
major repair is
| taking place will be inform-
ed that curbing must be
] installed.
Mayor Bernard McDevitt
spoke on the possibility of
a flood this Spring, and
said the borough will send
questionaires to residents
of flood-prone areas. The
forms will ask such ques-
tions as the names of
members of the household,
presence of any handicap-
ped persons, whether the
family has shelter if they
find it necessary to move,
and if help will be needed
to move them. Completed
questionaires should be re-
turned to the borough
office.
Council noted that, in
case of emergency, housing
would be provided at River-
view Elementary School.
The Armstrong Cork Com-
pany said it would open a
¢ warehouse for residents to
store their furniture in case
of floeding.
In other business,
Council:
—Purchased a rifle for the
police cruiser.
—Approved an amendment
to an existing ordinance,
the borough tax collector at
setting compensation for
$100 per year. The amend-
aE 3 e. sffect. Janu,
the
neighbors at her end of
the street, to show their
support for the paving
project.
We talked to Mrs. An-
drews on Tuesday morning.
She had knocked on every
door within 2 blocks of her
home, and so far, everyone
she talked to had agreed
with her.
‘““Even though they have
trees,”” she said, ‘‘they
would gladly sooner lose
their trees, and have not
only a good street but
decent-looking curbs. It'll
raise the value of our
property.”
Ruth Andrews thinks
Front Street has been
neglected in the past, and
that residents deserve the
new pavement. ‘‘“We all
want it badly, at least at
this end of town,” she
says. ‘I'd even like them
to start paving at my end.”
To the sometimes-heard
objection that a flood might
destroy the new pavement,
she replies, ‘The people
and the houses got through
the last flood. We survived
it. The street will make it.”
The present paving job,
she adds, has only a 50
percent chance of weather-
ing high water.
‘I've got a new car,”
she concludes, ‘‘and I only
drive it on part of Front
Street. If the street gets
any worse, I'll have to
trade it in on a horse and
buggy.”
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Street residents, in an
effort to influence the
decision.
The main issue is the big
trees, which project into
the street. Digging up the
road will disturb the trees’
root systems, and may kill
them, even if the engineers
try to leave them standing.
Current plans call for
removal of the trees,
starightening the curbs,
and widening the street by
4 feet.
Homeowners will have to
pick up the tab for istalling
new concrete curbs. The
borough’s engineer estim-
Opposed-
Jack Shaub
“If they repave Front
Street, leave the curb-
stones, and leave the trees,
okay,” says Front Street
resident Jack Shaub. “‘If
they take all the trees
down, there will be no
more trees on Front Street,
and that’s ridiculous.’’
Like many other resi-
dents of the well-restored
first few blocks of Front St.
(roughly, between Perry
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and Gay Streets), Jack is
vehemently opposed to
Council's paving plan.
““The big issue is the
trees,”’ he says. But they
are not the only issue.
The 110 year-old river
stone curbs are crooked
and sunken, but they fit
the historic character of
Jack Shaub’s restored sec-
tion of street. The brick
cobblestones would crack
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residents will be $5 per
foot.
Homeowners will have to
pick up the tab for the new
concrete curbs. The bor-
ough’s engineer estimates
the cost to homeowners at
$S per foot.
and distintegrate, he fears,
if residents tried to re-
move, then replace them."’
The cost of the project is
another objection. Resi-
dents who live on fixed
incomes will find them-
selves facing heavy bills for
new curbs and sidewalks.
“At $S a foot,” says Mr.
Shaub, ‘‘ someone with 200
feet will have to pay
$1000.’
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