Three more subdivisions join streetlight program

Gwinnett has incorporated three more subdivisions to the streetlight program for neighborhoods built before 1997. Commissioners agreed last year to use 2009 SPLOST funds to install streetlights if a majority of homeowners sign a petition agreeing to pay annual operating costs.

Fifty-four percent of 91 homeowners in Old Dominion off Five Forks Trickum Road between Lilburn and Snellville voted in favor. Installation of 28 lights there will cost $13,319 with estimated operating costs of $4,722. Near Snellville, a majority of the 26 homeowners in Meadow Oak Place agreed to split estimated operating costs of $1,462 for nine lights that will cost $4,044 to install. And the 74-home Dickens Creek subdivision south of Norcross will get 16 lights with installation costs of $32,786 and estimated operating costs of $2,120.