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guidance concerning how they want the projects prioritized. The Board can decide to modify the scope or specifics of a project, delay its execution timetable, or remove a project from the plan entirely.
Projects initially become part of the plan because a resident asks the Board to add it. Usually, this is due to some serious safety concern or because of structural damage to a road or bridge. Some property owners voluntarily give up their private roads so that they will be maintained at state expense. This is called “rural additions” in the project list.
Road improvements include paving gravel roads, widening roadways or shoulders and ditches, straightening curves or cutting down banks and hills to improve sight distance, installing turn lanes and traffic signals, improving intersection connections, etc.
Many of the county projects involve “reconstruction” and widening. Reconstruction requires widening the existing roadway, ditches and banks from about 10 feet-15 feet to a standard 18 feet (9
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