Residents along Crom Street across from the municipal golf course seem appreciative the city is replacing the roughly 50-year-old chain link fence that is in constant need of repair.
The 6-foot fence will cost an estimated $140,000 to demolish and replace.
And if there is adequate funds available, it could be replaced with a less obtrusive black chain link.
Residents, though, wish the city can find a way to complete a missing gap of sidewalk along Crom Street between Zurich Drive and Silverado.
It is currently dirt.
When it rains, pedestrians that are primarily youth end up walking in the street.
Mayor Gary Singh on Tuesday suggested staff explore at least creating an asphalt path to cover the gap between where the concrete ends.
The City Council was able to persuade the developers of the 99-home Yosemite Greens neighrhorboods immediately west of the golf course to install sidewalk on the south side of Crom to Zurich on city owned property that never had sidewalk installed when the golf course was first completed.
That allowed students from Yosemite Greens to reach the crosswalk at Zurich and Crom to cross and continue their journey to Stella Brockman School on the south side of Crom.
The developers balked at extending the sidewalk to Silverado.
There wasn’t any sidewalk along the golf course until the 1990s including a section of Crom where there still aren’t any sidewalks. It is where the city allowed a subdivision to be built in the late 1970s sans sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
A Safe Routes to School grant from the State of California helped put in the sidewalk.
Crom Street has become a shortcut over the years with traffic often traveling above the posted speed limits,
The city had added stops signs at three intersections over the years in a bid to slow traffic.
One resident on Wednesday expressed concern the development of 786 homes west of Airport Way that has a street that ties directly into signals recently installed at Crom where it crosses Airport Way will lead to even more traffic on the street.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyAtt@mantecabulletin.com
