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Selectmen authorize easements, state grants for Firetown Road sidewalk project
Summary
The Board of Selectmen authorized the town manager to execute easement agreements and allocate state LOTS grant funding so the long‑planned Firetown Road sidewalk can move into construction bidding once property rights are in place.
The Simsbury Board of Selectmen on March 10 authorized Town Manager Mark Nelson to execute easement agreements and use state LOTS grant funding for easements tied to the Firetown Road sidewalk project.
The action comes after project staff told the board design is at about 90% and that nine property owners need either permanent or temporary easements for the roughly one‑mile sidewalk from West Street to Plank Hill Road. “The sidewalk project will start almost a mile of sidewalk from West Street all the way up to Plank Hill Road,” said Adam, a project engineer with the town. He said two of the nine easements are temporary for construction and seven would be permanent rights over frontage that in some cases is only a few square feet and in others extends to several thousand square feet.
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