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Resident urges rethink of piecemeal frontage improvement policy during public comment
Summary
A licensed civil engineer told the council that Newcastle’s frontage-improvement policy — which places costs of undergrounding overhead power and constructing sidewalks primarily on developers or individual parcel owners — is impractical and economically inefficient when implemented parcel-by-parcel along long corridors.
Newcastle — During public comment on June 17, resident Harvinder Singh, a licensed civil engineer representing the Ventry neighborhood, urged the council to reconsider the city’s frontage-improvement policy, arguing that piecemeal implementation of undergrounding overhead power and sidewalk construction would be infeasible and costly along long corridors.
Singh illustrated his concerns with Southeast May Creek Park Drive, saying the segment inside city limits runs…
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