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Hubbard Twp. road-paving choice explained
By jeanne starmack
hubbard
Pine Grove Drive in the Township’s Kermont Heights area will be paved this year ahead of four other roads that have been damaged by sewer-line installations.
Trustee chairman Fred Hanley said residents have asked why other roads were not included for repaving with an Ohio Public Works grant. Pine Grove is the longest and has the most houses on it and the most traffic, he explained.
The project will cost more than $100,000, with the grant covering 70 percent.
The township’s share is $36,000, out of a yearly paving budget of approximately $91,000, he said.
He said the township also has other roads that need attention, and there isn’t enough money to do them all at once.
Other roads that need to be repaved, he said, include three in the Fruitland Acres area. They are John White Road, Flying J Drive and the township portion of Mount Everett Road and TransRail America rail crossing.
Other roads in the Kermont Heights area that need repaving are Cherry Lane Drive, White Oak Drive, Tamarack Drive, Ruth Street and Club Street, he said.
Hanley said the township will look for other grants for those streets.
The contractor that’s putting in the sewer lines is not obligated to repave the streets, Hanley said, because the county’s application for funds for the sewer project did not include paving.
“It looks like patchwork,” he said, with unevenness and cross-cutting made worse by subsidence and heavy equipment.
Pine Grove paving is likely to start by this summer, after the contractor is finished with the sewer project. The contractor has a six-month extension to finish that work.