Government
Conceptual Plan, Funding for Elm-to-Irwin Sidewalk Discussed
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Should New Canaan pursue installation of a sidewalk between Elm Street and Irwin Park, the town likely would look hard at bonding the project and bringing stop signs to the intersection at Weed and Elm, officials say. Conceptual plans for the approximately $130,000 project have been drawn up, though no funding exists for it, Department of Public Works officials confirmed at the March 19 meeting of the Town Council, held in the Visitors Center at the New Canaan Nature Center. There, asked by council members which side of Weed Street the sidewalk would run along, DPW Assistant Director Tiger Mann said the western side (the same as Irwin itself). “The original plan had it going from Elm Street to the second driveway, the northern drive,” Mann said. “But since the new trail was installed across the great lawn, now it stops at the southern driveway.”
The discussion arose during the department’s presentation for this budget season.