Soggy Bottom Project Seeks Resident Feedback
Momentum builds behind project to repair streetscape in South Hyattsville neighborhood.
Over the next 60 days, city officials will begin sorting out the finer details of what work needs to be done to address a number of issues plaguing the roads and sidewalks in the Melrose neighborhood in southern Hyattsville. Currently, along 40th Avenue, Buchanan and Banner streets, the roadways have featured scarred, pot hole afflicted asphalt paving, inadequate and poorly engineered storm water drainage, and sidewalks which are buckled and girdled by tree roots. Residents say they have been asking city officials to address these issues for years, but are only now beginning to see momentum develop behind a plan to fix their streetscape. Residents have even coined their own nickname for the neighborhood to reflect the poor state of the …
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Jenni Pompi
9:44 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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