Snellville approves $738,000 sidewalk
The Snellville City Council approved last week a $738,000 bid for a mile-long stretch of sidewalk.
City manager Butch Sanders called the sidewalk -- which will stretch along Oak Road from Scenic Highway to Mountain View Road -- "a rather complicated project," with slope issues and drainage pipe extensions involved. Mayor Tom Witts called it "the last hurdle" to completing a park concept originally proposed more than a decade ago.
"This project is part of a bigger plan," Witts said in a news release posted on the city's website. "As most of you know, in 2003, Oak Road was promised a passive park. ... The park is coming."
Construction began on the first phase of the proposed Oak Road Park -- a five-acre "passive" concept, meaning it mostly consists of greenspace and very basic amenities -- in December 2013. Work on the new sidewalk is expected to begin in mid-May.
Sanders said the sidewalk will be paid for with SPLOST dollars. The $738,000 price tag was the lowest bid the city received and far less than the original $1 million estimate, he said.
"To me, the sidewalk has great extra benefit," Sanders wrote in an email, "as it will provide a biking/walking connection to our Towne Center development, Towne Green and municipal center."
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