The Cottonwood Shores City Council voted recently to hire a grant administration to assist our city in securing funds through the National Roadway Safety Strategy for development of a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and ultimately funding to improve and widen streets in Cottonwood Shores. I strongly support this initiative.
This funding initiative is greatly needed in our city of 2,000-plus residents, for public safety responses and general daily transportation purposes. We have approximately 12 miles of streets in the city, of which approximately 10.4 miles have improved chip-sealed surfaces and 1.6 miles exist as gravel.
The city was not built as a formal subdivision and so our streets were not designed or constructed properly. Most of our streets exist are very narrow 16-foot condition; a minimum standard would have been 20 feet (24 feet preferred). The right-ofway exists, but the streets were built too narrow from day one. The city was established in 1987.
