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Resident urges city to finish long‑delayed Edgewood Street connection to protect school access

5860520 · September 17, 2025
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Summary

A longtime resident told council that Edgewood Street remains unfinished decades after promises to extend it to a junior high school and urged the city to complete the work to ensure safe access in emergencies.

Joseph Van Dam of 801 Edgewood told the council during citizen comments that Edgewood Street was promised to be widened and completed about 60 years ago to provide safer access to a northern‑side junior high school and that the work never finished.

Van Dam said the unfinished…

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