Planners consider drainage

City planners told representatives from Carroll Electric Company that city code does require paving of Dove Road. Ken Jorgenson told planners Carroll Electric Cooperative is considering several properties, one of which is 20 acres at Dove and Blue Jay roads, on which to place a service center with a warehouse and equipment.

“We’ve been charged with conducting a feasibility study to determine whether this happens or not,” Jorgenson said, adding that the title company told him the road was not a city road.

“We do maintain that road,” Nathan See, street superintendent said.

“I told him we’d require the road to be paved. It is maintained by the city. This is a city road,” Dr. Karen Sherman, planner, said, also questioning the safety of pulling a large truck onto Arkansas Highway 72 from Dove Road.

Planners asked about traffic

to be created by the facility and were told that line trucks with trailers carrying poles would be based in the yard.

M.J. Hensley, planners, said the road has to be designed for the proper weight of the vehicles.

Planners also discussed whether a septic tank or connection to the city sewer service would be used.

In other business, planners disussed the proposed classroom addition to the Middle School and requested upgrades to the retention pond as well as changes to the crosswalk when the roadway on school property is changed.

Hensley explained that because of the number of buildings and amount of pavement on the school property, the drainage runoff has changed over the years and that a larger exit pipe would be recommended. He also recommended changing the weir.

“I’d rather see it enlarged one time,” Tony Townsend, city building official, said, responding to Hensley’s comments about the drainage pond.

With the addition of the football stadium and a proposed fine arts auditorium in a couple of years, even more runoff can be anticipated in the pond, Hensley said.