The council approved the Arrowhead Redevelopment Plan, which encompasses a largely commercial/industrial area east of the intersection of McKee Road and Verona Road.
City planner Tom Hovel said it was the first time the city had tackled such a detailed plan for redevelopment.
The plan calls for warehouse and industrial uses to limit traffic on McKee Road, which a consultant said would be severely congested during peak traffic, even after when a new interchange is built at Verona Road and more lanes are added to McKee Road.
The city finally has a master plan for McGaw Park, located on Lacy Road about halfway between Fish Hatchery Road and County Hwy. MM.
As a community park, it’s expected to rival McKee Farms Park in the scope of its amenities, although it will provide a different mix of experiences.
The council asked for a master plan more than a year after rejecting a proposal to demolish the existing park shelter and replace it with one costing about $550,000. The plan will be phased in when funds become available as the surrounding area is developed.
A family in the area was the reicipent of Pearle Vision's "Complete Glasses Give Away," which includes full exam and complete lenses and frames pair of glasses.
A second-place finish in a health and wellness grant contest will help a local charity group teach Spanish-speaking farmers how to store foods over the winter.
Fitchburg Fields, which runs a 4,000-square-foot organic teaching garden at Lacy Road and Fahey Glen, found out in November it won a $2,500 grant after several competitors tried to rig the online-voting portion of the competition.
Officials are organizing a new style of summer school that, in part, hearkens back to the early 1990s, when more than 1,000 local kids would annually sign up for “enrichment” courses that went beyond remedial classes in math or literacy.
