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At tnat time, tne commissioners and the council found themselves bound by an ordinance which requires that any streets within a subdivision (including frontage on the state road) be built to highway department standards on a 50-foot right-of-way and be accompanied by curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Although the council agreed that it did not want those requirements met along approximately 350 feet of Piedmont Ave., it had no choice but to attach the requirement to the application.
The council recommended, however, that Rev. Scott delay construction until the revised ordinance was adopted, at which time the application could be revised and the requirement struck.
On Thursday, the commissioners decided to recommend that subdivisions have streets of roughly the same width as the existing streets in town, as well as comparable right-of-way dedications. That would leave the pavement at about 18 feet, and rights-of-way at approximately 30 feet.
“What should the streets be paved with?” Mr. Wickens asked.
“Gold!” was Mr. Frizzell’s quick reply.
More seriously, the commission suggested that paving materials be comparable to those already in use in the town; “that it shouldn’t look like that’s where the subdivision starts,” in the words of Commissioner Reinhardt Lynch.
The commissioners also agreed that all streets
See PLANNERS, p. 13
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