City Ready To Send Out Heritage Parkway Addresses

PRAIRIE GROVE — City officials are in the process of assigning new addresses to homes and businesses along Heritage Parkway and letters will go out soon notifying residents and business owners of their new address.

New addresses will take effect 30 days after notification, according to Larry Oelrich, director of administrative services and public works.

“It’s not an easy process,” Oelrich said, adding he realizes people will not be happy having to change their address because of the work involved. “But it’s needed to just make it consistent.”

Prairie Grove City Council renamed the section of U.S. High- way 62 that goes through the city limits to Heritage Parkway in February 2015. The section is about seven miles long.

It is confusing sometimes, Oelrich said, because the city of Farmington uses Main Street for U.S. Highway 62, except for those businesses and houses that came

into Farmington as part of recent annexations. Those places still use Highway 62 as part of their address. Lincoln, on the other hand, uses Pridemore Drive for all addresses on U.S. 62 going through the Lincoln city limits.

“This makes it a lot clearer,” he said. “This will let emergency personnel know that if an address includes Heritage Parkway, it is in the Prairie Grove city limits,” Oelrich said.

West of Mock Street will have a West Heritage Park- way address and addresses will range from 0-2200 going west. Places east of Mock Street will be East Heritage Parkway and addresses will range from 0-3900.

For the most pa r t , addresses will match the grid as the rest of the city. Heritage Parkway is primarily east-west, with one section that is north- south. The section of highway that goes north-south will not match the city’s address grid.

“We did not want a northsouth section,” Oelrich said.

One thing that will not change for a residence or business is the name of the city and zip code assigned to it by the U.S. Post Office. Cutting Edge Glass & Frame, for example, is in Prairie Grove city limits but has a Farmington address. Cutting Edge will have a Heritage Parkway street address but its city and zip code will remain as Farmington.

“We only have control over the name of the street and the street number,” Oelrich said.

Prairie Grove has tried several times to get the U.S. Post Office to change the city name and zip code to match city boundaries but the Post Office has turned down its requests, Oelrich said.