Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Street fight is over
Gravel road will be paved
BY CINDY SCHROEDER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LAKESIDE PARK — A years-old struggle to get a street paved in this suburban Kenton County community of manicured lawns and upscale homes has ended.
Within a month, the short, dead-end gravel lane known as Williams Avenue should be transformed into a two-lane concrete roadway, a contractor said.
Last week, Lakeside Park City Council called an emergency meeting to award a contract to Spartan Construction Co. of Burlington.
Just feet from Williams Avenue, the firm is wrapping up the $1.7 million widening of Dixie Highway from Arcadia Avenue south to Carran Drive.
Homeowners will pay
Spartan's $56,954 contract calls for replacing the 373-foot gravel lane with a two-lane concrete roadway, and relocating and upgrading the existing waterline. The cost will be assessed over the next 10 years to the eight homes on the street, with each paying about $7,119.
“We're going to try to start Wednesday, and (the project's) probably going to take three to four weeks,” said Dianne Brossart, president of Spartan Construction Co. “Hopefully, within a month, we'll have it done.”
For Williams Avenue residents, who plotted strategy as they picnicked on one another's front porches, the announcement was welcome news.
“This is great!” resident Patty Neugent said. “This is the first council and the first mayor that would work with us. Even though we have to pay for it, (the city is) handling all the costs up front, and is taking care of the plans.”
For the first time since moving in, Mrs. Neugent said, she and her neighbors will finally have clean windows.
13-year struggle
“It's going to make the whole area look so much nicer,” said Mrs. Neugent, who added residents of nearby streets are also excited about the project.
When she and her husband moved to Williams Avenue 13 years ago, they wrongly assumed it wouldn't take long to get their street paved, Mrs. Neugent said.
However, the city maintained the paving wasn't its responsibility because the road wasn't a city street. While Williams Avenue was within city limits and received city services, the roadway was never officially dedicated to Lakeside Park.
“The original developer never put in an improved road,” City Engineer E.J. Foltz said. “It was always a private road. It will now be a dedicated road upon completion.”
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