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Delaware City engineers highlight $6M‑plus corridor needs, pursue grants for resurfacing, safety and neighborhood projects
Summary
City engineering staff outlined major transportation projects in the five‑year CIP — an unfunded high‑priority east‑side corridor needing about $6 million, a competitive ODOT resurfacing regime, planned sidewalks/shared‑path grants, and targeted neighborhood revitalization grant applications.
City Engineer Jonathan Owen told the Finance Committee on Aug. 28 that the city’s 5‑year capital improvement program includes several large transportation projects, some funded and some unfunded, and that many will rely on competitive state and federal grants.
“I call that our top priority project on the existing roadway network,” Owen said, describing an east‑side corridor project that staff estimated at just over $6,000,000 and flagged because the corridor logged more than 100 crashes in the prior five years and 23 crashes with injuries.
Owen outlined both funded resurfacing work and a set of higher‑cost projects staff want to advance. The annual resurfacing program in the CIP relies heavily on outside grants and local matches — the five‑year totals range from about $700,000 to $2.1 million per year in the plan — and the Ohio Department of Transportation District 6 has shifted its urban resurfacing program to a competitive application process while maintaining an 80%…
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