Avon looks for money to widen Nagel Road

The City of Avon will pursue funding for the widening of Nagel Road in 2019.

In a Monday work session, Avon City Council discussed a resolution in support of an application to the Ohio Public Works Commission in September.

City of Avon Engineer Ryan Cummins said the city will seek $250,000 in grant funding and $250,000 in loan funding for the estimated $1.1 million project to widen the two-lane section of Nagel Road between Middleton Road and Detroit Road to three lanes.

“I think the traffic flow there is getting greater as time moves on and the ability to make those left-hand turn movements is fewer and far between,” Cummins said.

Cummins said the Ohio Public Works Commission provides annual opportunities in September for cities to get grant funding and zero-interest loan funding in order to improve municipal infrastructure,

If the project receives the go ahead, the city would aim for construction to begin after July 1, 2019.

Mayor Bryan Jensen said the widening would assist traffic, especially the Nagel Road Dunkin Donuts location and Discount Drug Mart in providing better left-turn capabilities and foresees upgrades to the intersection at Nagel Road and Detroit Road in the near future.

“The intersection itself is going to be a really big project. And so we’re trying to break it up so we get one section done first and then the second section coming in after,” Jensen said. “It gives us time to talk about what we want with that section in the middle but I think everyone realizes the widening needs to go all the way up.”