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Business Owners In Carroll Get First Look At Plans For Highway 30 Expansion

Photo: Subway owner, Steve Gute, gets his first look at plans to widen Highway 30 at the Grant Road intersection

A public meeting held last night (Tuesday) in the joint jurisdictional proposed Highway 30 expansion through the Grant Road intersection in Carroll saw several affected business owners attending to get a first look at the plans. The city initiated the project, but Tony Lazarowicz, district engineer with the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) Highway Division, says the DOT was in favor of widening the highway from near Options Ink, west to Maple Street–on the west side of Casey’s. This meeting, according to Carroll Director of Public Works, Randy Krauel, is the first step in the process. Next, Lazarowicz says, they will contact property owners on the south side of Highway 30 about land assessment and easement acquisition. Only one area they are looking at, the Subway at the corner of Grant and 30, may have to be a total property acquisition instead of just an easement.

He added that part of the process could take up to 18 months, depending on how soon they are able to come to an agreement with the property owners. Steve Gute, whose family has owned that Subway for the past 26 years, says it is too early to determine what direction they will take, but he is not yet sure that relinquishing the property is the only solution.

Another affected property owner, Kim Tiefenthaler of Performance Tire and Service, had a lot of questions about how the plan will alter access to his business.

Tiefenthaler said they will take up to 10 feet of his driveway, and with trucks coming in from both directions, the curb would make it difficult, if not nearly impossible, for them to get past the parked vehicles in the lots. Krauel said moving driveways or changing the plans would be part of the negotiation process between the property owners and the city and DOT. Other affected business owners, like Todd Jansonius of Todd’s Exhaust Pros, had their fears about access during construction alleviated when told at least one lane would be left open. The identified goal of this project is to reduce accidents at the Grant Road and Highway 30 intersection with the addition of turning lanes and lights that will have turn signals for both east and westbound vehicles.

Full Map of Project: US30-Grant Public Info Exhibit 12-13-16

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