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Falcon Heights gears up for improvements SUSAN MAAS hearing; only two spoke. One resident came with questions and the other, who After a relatively quick and painless pub- lives on Autumn Street, came to reiterate lie hearing, the Falcon Heights City Coun- that he didn't feel his street needs recon- cil approved plans and started the bidding struction and he doesn't want to pay for it. process for the 1993 street improvement That resident had participated in earlier process. meetings and discussions with the city. The improvements, slated for the Falcon The streets in the Grove area to be com Woods area and the Grove area of the city, pletely reconstructed are Folwell from Ful- are expected to be started in June and com ham to Coffman, and Vincent, Northrup, pteted in September. FALCON HEIGHTS /Page 4 Ahmit 20 -25 oeonle showed up at the C, Burton and Coffman from Hoyt to determined to be in poor shape, Moore to Howell, and Prior, from Folwell. and the city will determine how to Roselawn to Summer. Storm sew The city also will replace some address that after seeking bids. ers, discussed earlier in the deteriorating sewer lines, improve The Falcon Woods area process, will not be replaced in storm sewer drainage and add a improvements include reconstruc- the Falcon Woods neighborhood. pedestrian pathway from Folwell tion of Autumn from Roselawn to The city presented at the hearing to Larpenteur. Prior. They also include street estimates for costs on both neigh Also, watermains on Folwell, overlay and the addition of curb borhood projects: $747,400 for Northrup and Burton have been and gutter to Summer, from the Grove area, and $176,700 for the Falcon Woods area. The council voted unanimously to go ahead with bond sales, not lok to exceed $1.075 million, for the two projects. k Residents of the affected neigh borhoods will be assessed 40 per cent for street repairs; the rate was changed Trom 50 percent in land- k City Engineer Terry Maurer L estimated a typical lot assessment in the Grove area to be about k $2,715. In the Falcon Woods area, he 4. estimated a typical assessment for reconstruction to be $2,400, and for a street overlay with a new kr curb and gutter to be $1,712. Those assessments will be k spread over an undetermined amount of time; probably seven to 6, 10 years, council members said. Mayor Tom Baldwin said he believed, the street improvement process was going 7moothly, in L part because of neighborhood C meetings Ianuary -with residents I ��fro m m Bch proJecarea. 't v a_ t k r Most questions,an. concerns ;i had' been addressed by the time of kr l ast week' hearing 0 A 'public�'heanngleahng with assessments for the projects yvill %t a ser for later m the spring j k m....m.i..mmimimmmimmi••••mmimmmim......m-