(KLZA)-- Following a public  hearing Monday night on the proposed 1 & 6 Year Street Plan, the Falls City Council approved the plan presented by Olsson Company.

On the One-Year plan are six projects which includes approximately 15 blocks of street paving with the City cost for the projects estimated at $922-thousand. 

Included in the plan is building 33rd Street from Old Highway 73 east to an intersection with Highway 73.  The cost is estimated at $422-thousand with private funds used to pay that cost. 

Another $257-thousand would be for extending 33rd Street from Highway 73 east for approximately 600-feet. Another $259-thousand is for milling and overlaying an existing private Road from Highway 73 east approximately 1,100 feet to Fulton Street.

The costliest project included in the one-year plan is $437-thousand to extend Abbott Street from 28th Street north 900 feet to meet the new 31st Street. 

Hard surfacing of the Airport Road from Fair Avenue to the City Limits remains on the six-year plan with the city portion of the project now estimated at $518-thousand.  If the project were to be done, the cost to Richardson County is now estimated at $777-thousand. 

Council member Mitch Merz suggested a portion of 14th Street from Highway 73 west be considered for hard surfacing on future plans.  Merz noted traffic has increased with the opening of a new grocery store and said it is one of the first streets visitors use going to the ballpark for games and tournaments.  Merz said the brick street carries many heavy loads of cement and feed trucks from businesses on West 14th Street.  

Possibly adding the south section of Fulton Street that is not in the city limits, but meets up with Highway 73 near the wastewater treatment plant was also discussed for future inclusion.