The $1.8 Million Driveway at Taxpayer Expense

Editor:

The City of Hancock is moving forward with constructing a road on a narrow easement between the DNR trail and the PLCA garages on the West end of Navy Street. The construction plans viewed by condo co-owners and townhouse residents showed a vertical, steel piling wall that would be used as a retaining wall for $750,000. That is a totally unacceptable retaining wall and will result in failure. The second alternative is an 18′ high concrete vertical retaining wall built without being tied into the 30-45 degree bank for an estimated cost of $1.8 million. How is this even safe without substantial tiebacks?

These are taxpayer dollars with a token return on investment from building the road. Why not invest in downtown redevelopment? There

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