Post by red on Feb 7, 2007 17:44:56 GMT -8
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AZUSA - Sierra Madre Boulevard, one of the few east-west streets that can be used to traverse Azusa north of the Foothill (210) Freeway, is expected to remain closed until September, according to an update given at Monday's council meeting.
When a mile of the road was closed last July, it was initially expected to reopen at the end of 2006. Then the estimate was pushed back to June or July, before Monday's news of another months-long delay.
Two-thirds of the closed portion, running west from Yucca Ridge Road in Glendora, will open to drivers in March or April, according to Byron de Arakal, spokesman for Azusa Land Partners. ALP is the developer of the 1,250-home Rosedale project that Sierra Madre Boulevard will run through. However, the road will continue to dead-end at Nob Hill Drive near Pioneer Park in Azusa until autumn.
"Multiple circumstances have contributed to the delay," said de Arakal, who blamed "a domino of events."
"Rosedale is a hugely complex development," he said. "Probably the largest and most complex in Azusa's history."
The first "domino" was the unexpected increase in the amount of dirt that needed to be trucked off-site, de Arakal said. That delayed ALP's ability to design the new electrical delivery system for existing houses close to Rosedale, which have power lines that ALP needs to remove.
The lines can't be removed until a new electrical system is installed. Until the lines are removed, ALP can't dig a 20-foot trench beneath the future path of Sierra Madre Boulevard. Without the trench, ALP can't lay water and utility lines, and until the utilities are in place, they can't rebuild the road, de Arakal summed up.
The delay is a disappointment, Mayor Diane Chagnon said.
"Our residents were looking forward to it being completely opened," she said. "I'm hearing from several residents that while they realized there was going to be an inconvenience in the beginning - and they were willing to live with that for the \ of the project - to hear that it's been extended, that's not sitting well with a lot of people."
The council asked ALP to develop possible alternatives, such as the earlier completion of other east-west streets through Rosedale, but Chagnon said she considers that solution a "slim" possibility.
www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_5171394
AZUSA - Sierra Madre Boulevard, one of the few east-west streets that can be used to traverse Azusa north of the Foothill (210) Freeway, is expected to remain closed until September, according to an update given at Monday's council meeting.
When a mile of the road was closed last July, it was initially expected to reopen at the end of 2006. Then the estimate was pushed back to June or July, before Monday's news of another months-long delay.
Two-thirds of the closed portion, running west from Yucca Ridge Road in Glendora, will open to drivers in March or April, according to Byron de Arakal, spokesman for Azusa Land Partners. ALP is the developer of the 1,250-home Rosedale project that Sierra Madre Boulevard will run through. However, the road will continue to dead-end at Nob Hill Drive near Pioneer Park in Azusa until autumn.
"Multiple circumstances have contributed to the delay," said de Arakal, who blamed "a domino of events."
"Rosedale is a hugely complex development," he said. "Probably the largest and most complex in Azusa's history."
The first "domino" was the unexpected increase in the amount of dirt that needed to be trucked off-site, de Arakal said. That delayed ALP's ability to design the new electrical delivery system for existing houses close to Rosedale, which have power lines that ALP needs to remove.
The lines can't be removed until a new electrical system is installed. Until the lines are removed, ALP can't dig a 20-foot trench beneath the future path of Sierra Madre Boulevard. Without the trench, ALP can't lay water and utility lines, and until the utilities are in place, they can't rebuild the road, de Arakal summed up.
The delay is a disappointment, Mayor Diane Chagnon said.
"Our residents were looking forward to it being completely opened," she said. "I'm hearing from several residents that while they realized there was going to be an inconvenience in the beginning - and they were willing to live with that for the \ of the project - to hear that it's been extended, that's not sitting well with a lot of people."
The council asked ALP to develop possible alternatives, such as the earlier completion of other east-west streets through Rosedale, but Chagnon said she considers that solution a "slim" possibility.
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