PO Box 233
Nampa, Id 83653
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North Nampa Residents Association PO Box 233 Nampa, Id 83653 |
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 NAMPA - Nothings's cast in concrete, officials contend, but a proposal to connect 3rd Street N. to E. Powerline Road will be a rough bridge to cross. Nampa officials, including Mayor Maxine Horn, received earfuls Tuesday from Nampa property owners including Wendell Gohn, who said he will never give up his property -- period -- to extend a bridge from 3rd Street across Indian Creek. "It would take a majority of that chunk of property," Gohn said of his four 14th Avenue lots. The controversy erupted at the Moose Hall, during a meeting between city officials and North Nampa property owners. It is one of several held to determine how more than $1 million in North Nampa Urban Renewal Agency funds are spent on a 30-block North Nampa target area. |
Previous meetings focused on an incentive program in which target area
property owners would receive free curbs, gutters and sidewalks for improving
their properties. Public Works Director Paul Raymond said the project has not generated the enthusiasm the city -- and the agency -- hoped. That lack of excitement -- and a stressed agency budget -- has spurred another option: The new bridge, which Horn previously contended will ease congestion when the 11th Avenue Underpass is shut down in January 2002 for reconstruction. That is not enough to sway Ron Payne, whose 14th Avenue property is adjacent to the bridge site. "It hasn't been there for 100 years," he said. "I don't see what the point would be in doing it now." |
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