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Council adopts revised local‑street alternatives and stronger pavement standard; staff to return with pedestrian‑surface specification
Summary
The Hideout Town Council on July 10 approved changes to the town’s engineering standards that create a limited alternative local‑street cross‑section, tighten pavement minimums and allow sidewalk elimination on narrowly defined dead‑end streets.
Hideout’s council amended the town’s engineering standards and drawings on July 10 to give staff and developers an alternative local‑street cross‑section for limited circumstances and to strengthen pavement thickness requirements.
Gordon, the town’s engineering consultant, explained that the proposed alternatives are intended for streets where technical need for on‑street parking or sidewalks is demonstrably absent. Under the amendments, curb‑to‑curb widths can be narrowed if: residences do not front both sides of a block, parking can be provided on the opposite side where the developer controls both sides,…
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