BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The city plans to resurface a deteriorating section of Avery Road in 2025 -- and the project might also include new storm sewers, sidewalks and a bike lane.
The resurfacing will cover about 2,500 linear feet of Avery between Ohio 82 to the north and Oakes Road to the south.
The road, with homes on both sides, is cracked and crumbling.
“Avery Road needs to be resurfaced to improve the structural integrity and rideability of the roadway,” city Engineer Ethan Neff told cleveland.com.
“There currently are many areas where the roadway is failing.”
The city has received a $150,000 Cuyahoga County grant that will pay for half of the resurfacing’s estimated cost of $300,000.
Under the grant agreement, the city will prepare construction plans and specifications and supervise the project.
The county will review the plans and specifications and inspect the resurfacing once it’s completed.
Neff said the city plans to seeks bids from contractors for the resurfacing in the spring and hopes to start construction in spring or summer.
The project’s estimated completion date is Nov. 15.
During construction, Avery south of Ohio 82 will be open only to local traffic as needed, Neff said.
That means residents heading west on Ohio 82 to the Broadview Heights Community & Recreation Center on Broadview Road won’t have the southbound Avery/westbound Oakes shortcut to get there.
Instead, residents traveling west to the recreation center will have to travel all the way to Broadview and turn south.
Neff said the city is also designing a new storm sewer system for Avery and performing a feasibility study to determine if sidewalks and a bike lane can be built on that street.
Neff said the storm sewers, and perhaps the sidewalks and bike lane, will be added to the resurfacing project, but details on costs and other factors are still being ironed out.
“This project is still in the very early design phase,” Neff said.
Neff said the city plans to seek additional grants for the sewers and perhaps the sidewalks and bike lanes.
More than 15 years ago, the city created a plan to create dedicated bike lanes on streets throughout town.
The plan’s purpose is to provide residents living on the edges of town a way to ride to the city recreation center and the town commercial center at Ohio 82 and Broadview.
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