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Hamden consultants outline 3.5-mile sidewalks, bridge near wetlands; commissioners table related application
Summary
Consultants presented a 3.5-mile bicycle and sidewalk project on four Hamden streets, including a prefabricated pedestrian bridge over a culvert near Lake Whitney; commissioners raised wetland and drainage concerns and voted to table application 20Six-twelve71 pending completion of a sidewalk.
Consultants for the Town of Hamden presented a multi-street sidewalks and bicycle facilities project and answered commissioners’ questions before the body voted to table a related application.
Paul Brand of GM2 Associates introduced the project as a roughly 3.5-mile package of pedestrian and bicycle improvements on Benham, Treadwell, Auger and Davis streets, saying it includes new sidewalks, ramps, bike lanes and a prefabricated pedestrian bridge where needed. "We are the consultant designer, for the Town of Hamden on the walkable sidewalks project," Brand told the commissioners.
The Benham Street segment includes new sidewalk runs and ramp replacements that fall within 100-foot and 200-foot wetland buffer areas but, Brand said, the work itself will remain in the public right-of-way and "we are not building anything in the wetland." East of the Cherry Hill Road intersection, he said, the…
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