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Show Parrish Lane residents must wait a year By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE Residents along the east end of Parrish Lane were told that Centerville City may be able to budget street improvements improve-ments next year, but not during the current fiscal year. Nearly 20 property owners along Parrish Lane between 400 and 700 East were present during council meeting Tuesday, discussing their desire for citizen participation in getting much needed water, curb and gutter, and street improve- I JZZ ments along that stretch. Evelyn Asay presented signatures signa-tures of several property owners who support the project, though several others still had questions about the improvements and their costs. In 1986, the city attempted to get full citizen participation on a similar number of projects, but could not. Concerns voiced at that time ranged from an increased traffic traf-fic flow to those who preferred a narrow road rather than a wider street Mrs. Asay hoped that those improvements im-provements could be done this year, but city staff pointed out that funds for street projects have already been budgeted for the current cur-rent fiscal- year. Centerville currently cur-rently has a six year plan that includes in-cludes at least 40 street projects not budgeted for the current year. The project is estimated to cost $88,000, with $20,250 of that amount for curb and gutter improvements. im-provements. It is that portion which citizens along the street would have to pick up under the citizen participation format the city uses for such improvements. The residents were encouraged w by council to get signatures from all who would participate. This issue likely will not be discussed further this year. In one other item related to home owners, the council voted to adopt an ordinance defining "open type" fences, as part of the city's planning plan-ning and zoning ordinances. Responding to a previous request re-quest for the definition, open-type fences are now considered as fences "which do not substantially obstruct vision. A fence substantially substan-tially obstructs vision if it has less than 50 percent open area." |