DUANE SHERRILLEditor

The city has come up with a solution to avoid having to cut into the asphalt on Cedar Lane for underground utilities. The solution is to run an easement that avoids having to break up the pavement to run the utilities across the street.

“In our street cut program we passed last year, one of the obvious things we want to do is to keep these streets from getting cut,” Quick said, noting that there is a development on Cedar Lane that is challenging when it comes to not tearing up the street for underground utilities. “Unfortunately, the new paved portion of Cedar Lane does not give them access to bore under the road, which is what we’ve always required or requested that they do.”

To solve the problem, the city has created an easement beside the road so that the lines can be connected on North Collins Street so the road does not have to be torn up. The easement is basically in a ditch area along the road.

“We’re just trying to save any cut to the road,” Quick said. “They can run along the easement and connect to the sewer from that standpoint.”

The alternative would have been a seven foot cut on Cedar Lane which would have disturbed the pavement and caused traffic issues while the cut was going on.