Published: November 15, 2007 11:25 am      

New Albany's Mount Tabor Road opening by Thanksgiving?

The final phase of the Mount Tabor Road renovation is targeted for completion by Nov. 26, a city contractor said Wednesday.

Tom Schellenberg, a traffic engineer with the firm Jacobi, Toombs and Lanz, said the previous deadline of Nov. 8 was not met when utilities relocated too late. The road is closed between Green Valley Road and Lancaster Drive in New Albany.

“We’re hoping by Thanksgiving, but we really don’t know at this point,” Schellenberg said, citing the prospect of rain interruptions.

Schellenberg estimated the final cost of the four phases will amount to about $3 million. Under a federal matching program, the city would be responsible for $600,000 of that.



Zoning meeting canceled

A lack of a quorum on the five-member New Albany Board of Zoning Appeals scuttled Tuesday night’s meeting, pushing nine items to next month’s agenda.

Two of them are businesses hoping to move to a vacant barn at 409 Mount Tabor Road, at the south end of New Albany Industrial Park South.

One is Quick Cash Jewelry & Pawn, the other is an auto-sales business called Go for Less, New & Used Transportation and Fun.

The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 in the City-County Building’s third-floor assembly room.



Daisy Lane plans include bridge replacement

The Redevelopment Commission hopes to renovate Daisy Lane between State Street and Roseview Terrace next year. Though the project originally called for widening the road’s bridge over Falling Run Creek, a contribution from Floyd County will instead cover a replacement of the bridge.

Schellenberg said the county has pledged up to $300,000 for that component of the project, an amount he expects will be about the same as the cost. Widening would have cost the city about $100,000.

The Daisy Lane project slowed when the first phase, between Roseview Terrace and Graybrook Lane, took longer and was costlier than expected.

About 15 of 70 parcels of planned public right of way have been acquired for the next phase, Schellenberg said.