W. 17th Street Open Again in Dubuque
Another Bee Branch Project Phase Wrapping Up
The City of Dubuque trench drain installation at West 17th Street, near the bottom of Heeb Street is pretty well wrapped up now, and the street is open to traffic again.
West 17th was closed on May 3rd, with a target completion date of July 12th. Stormwater trench drains were installed as part of the Dubuque Bee Branch Project. Underground utility work was also completed.
The new storm sewer has a vastly greater capacity and is part of an overall effort to reduce flooding problems in the West Locust Street, West 17th Street area, part of the Bee Branch Watershed. This installation is part of Phase III of the West 17th - West Locust Storm Sewer Improvement component of the city s infrastructure improvement plan. The city reports the cost of this portion of the project to be over 10.7 million dollars. The cost of the entire Bee Branch Project is projected at over 233 million dollars. The c
With each project in her ever-winding career, Milwaukee mural artist Tia Richardson learns something new about herself.
She believes the everyday people involved in her works grow, too from articulating what they want a mural to symbolize to helping paint it. It s therapeutic; it s relaxing. It brings people together; there’s sense of unity, Richardson said. Those are all the things that I want for our community. And that s what happens when we do that work.
Richardson saw the power of community art in her years helping students paint murals in schools. Now a full-time community artist, she often involves people of all ages in projects across the region.
Opening a new neighborhood bar could become more difficult
Quad-City TImes
DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) A temporary pause on the opening of new neighborhood bars in certain parts of Davenport in an effort to crack down on nuisance establishments could become permanent.
Davenport aldermen will meet Wednesday to consider approving the first of three readings of a proposed ordinance amending various city zoning codes.
Among the recommended changes is removing bars and minor vehicle repair services as a special use in neighborhood commercial zoning districts, mainly clustered along Locust, Harrison, Brady and Washington streets and parts of Rockingham Road.
Existing neighborhood bars would not be impacted by the zoning change. They would be considered legal nonconforming grandfathered uses, said Laura Berkley, city development and planning administrator.
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