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Commissioners move downtown sidewalk project to consent; engineers say sidewalks will be widened where space allows, heated sidewalks excluded
Summary
A municipal street-improvement project that includes sidewalk work was moved to and approved on the consent agenda after the project team told commissioners side streets lack room for fully code-compliant sidewalks and that heated sidewalks are not planned.
At a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting of the Anchorage Municipality, commissioners placed a street-improvement project affecting downtown side streets onto the consent agenda after a brief technical discussion and then approved the consent agenda.
The project team told commissioners that narrower side streets have insufficient right-of-way to provide the full code-required sidewalk width without acquisitions, removal of on-street parking or lane reductions. “There’s not enough space for the vehicle in the center parking and sidewalks to be compliant of the code. So we’ll basically install sidewalks as wide as we can,” Will Webb of McKinney…
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