NORWAY – Susan Berube gets to keep some parking area.

Doug and Donna Mawhinney and Doug Edwards get to stop a telephone pole from being in the center of their yards.

And selectmen get to keep bike lanes and some parking on other sections of Beal Street.

All in all, things seemed to work out pretty well at the Thursday selectman’s meeting.

The board invited all residents of Beal Street to the meeting to comment on a construction project that would replace water and sewer and add bike lanes, parking and a new surface to the street.

Rob Prue of Pine Tree Engineering made the presentation showing that on Beal Street from Cottage to Danforth streets and from Lynn Street to Bolster Place there would be two 11-foot-wide lanes for cars, two 7-foot-wide bike lanes, one 7-foot-wide area for parking and one 5-foot-wide sidewalk.

The road from Danforth to Lynn streets would have the same features except for the 7-foot-wide parking lane.

The road from Winter to Paris streets would have two, 12-foot-wide travel lanes and a 5-foot-wide sidewalk.

The Mahwinneys and Edwards noted that enlarging the overall road surface would push a utility pole 7 feet back, leaving it in the middle of the dividing lines of their lawns.

Berube, owner of Convenient Living Retirement Home, said parking was needed for ambulances and handicap accessible vans that pickup and drop off her residents.

The board agreed to have Prue redesign those two sections of the road and have the plans at the town office by June 3 for public viewing.

The board intends to approve the plan at its next meeting on June 5.


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