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City asks school board to declare narrow Walnut Avenue strip surplus so it can buy land for sidewalk and safety improvements
Summary
City of Greenfield officials asked the Greenfield Union School District to declare a roughly 3,100-square-foot strip along Walnut Avenue at Mary Chapa Academy surplus so the city can buy it, build a sidewalk, add a push-button flashing crosswalk and widen the roadway to support future interchange work; board members pressed city staff on buffer zones, impacts to a curriculum storage building and choices such as fencing or landscaping.
City of Greenfield officials told the Greenfield Union School District board on Jan. 8 that they want to purchase a narrow strip of district property along Walnut Avenue adjacent to Mary Chapa Academy to build a sidewalk, add a pedestrian-activated flashing crosswalk and widen Walnut to improve safety and to support a future interchange project.
Emily Rivera, president of the district's 7/11 committee reviewing the proposal, said the committee's recommendation "keeps the district whole while improving safety for our community." Jamie Tubel, the city's public works director, said the city has secured grant funding to plan and phase the work and that the improvements would be constructed in city right-of-way.
City engineer Doug Pike described the project as the "Mary Chapa School Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Improvement Project" and said the schematic plan calls for building a continuous ADA-compliant sidewalk on the school side…
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