Industrial park access road gets committee green light

26 Jun 2018


Polk

Two of the Amery City Council’s standing committees gave approval to take the next steps with construction of an access road into the new 20-acre industrial park on the south end of town.

The Public Works and Finance committees met on April 24 with engineer Erik Henningsgard of Short Elliot Hendrickson (SEH) to discuss timelines, cost estimates and other details of the road.

Henningsgard’s timeline had 13 steps, ranging from wetlands jurisdictional determination with the Army Corps of Engineers up to construction. The timeline had best and worst-case scenarios for completion of the process. 

Legislation that goes into effect July 1, 2018 will change the way the wetlands are dealt with in this project. Preliminary designs for the access road curved to deal with wetlands in the development. The legislation provides exemption for projects in wetlands up to 10,000 square feet for wetlands not regulated by the Army Corps of Engineers or considered a high-quality wetland.

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