Hill Place developers moving earth and grading rapidly in preparation for new infrastructure for construction of apartment buildings

Please click on image to ENLARGE view west across Hill Place student-apartment development. The yellow-dirt area leading uphill a bit to left of center in the top photo is the trail that is used frequently by the public to walk across the Town Branch (above the big culvert being considered for removal). The City Council on Tuesday set a council tour of that area for 29 or 30 September in preparation for discussion at its October 7, 2008, meeting. Should the council decide to require that the developers remove the culvert, a simple and relatively inexpensive way to maintain the public stream crossing would be to move the pedestrian bridge currently straddling the Town Branch a bit more than 100 yards to the southeast to replace the road above the stream where the culvert is now. That pedestrian bridge is to be removed from its current site and replaced by a traffic bridge as infrastructure is built for the Hill Place student apartments.