Summer Road Resurfacing Complete for 2012 in the 8th Ward The residential street resurfacing for 2011 has been approved and the project has been completed. The street list includes portions of Cumberland Road, Forestview Lane, Meadowview Lane, Cimarron Drive East, Cimarron Drive West, and all of the following courts: Foxworth Court, Meadowview Court, Harvest Court and Cimarron Court. Each road or portion of a road had curbs, drains and gutters repaired, any broken or uneven sidewalks replaced, the street top coat ground off and repaved.
"Let's Get Growing" Community Gardens Offered Two new community gardens in the heart of our community are ready for your green thumbs next Spring! Located at Georgetown School on Long Grove and Gombert School on Ridge, these pilot garden plots are offered by South East Villages Neighborhood, Inc, a community organization dedicated to building solid community structure in Aurora. They have partnered with the Indian Priarie School District 204 to make these garden plots available with the assistance of Aldermen Mervine and Lewandowski from Aurora's 8th & 9th Wards and the the Fox Valley Park District. Sign up today at www.southeastvillages.org where an application form is available along with full information.
Plots are 10' x 10' for $15 each with a maximum of two available per household. There are a limited munber available so get your application in today. Application deadline is April 30th.
Spring Cleanup – Two Weeks Free! Plan for this next year!
Annual unbundled brush and landscape waste pickup begins with your waste pickup day the week of April 5th. In addition, the first two weeks, from April 5th through April 16th, all landscape waste in 30 gallon kraft bags will be picked up free. After April 16th, each bag of landscape waste will require a refuse sticker and continue until December 3rd. Unbundled brush ½ inch to 4 inches thick from 2 to 4 feet in maximum length will remain free when neatly stacked with the cut ends to the curb through November 5th. Twigs less than ½ inch in diameter are to be placed in kraft bags for removal with a sticker after April 16th. All landscape and brush resulting from contractor work must be immediately removed from your property by the contractor.
Eola Road Widening Update
We have entered the land acquisition phase of this project to widen Eola Road to 4 lanes from Montgomery Road to Keating. Construction funding from sources other than the city budget are not all in place at this time but preliminary engineering is complete. More on this in the next few months as this process continues.
Traffic Calming
New traffic calming devices will be installed in the coming weeks to help slow residential traffic at key locations such as schools, parks and long stretches of roadway. Ward 8 will be installing 10 of these devices now that Spring is returning.
Police Patrols
As the weather gets better, the Aurora Police Department will focus on speed as a local roadway problem. Expect them to run enforcement actions on all of our primary roadways and our residential streets as well. The residents of this Ward have shown a strong consistent preference for speed control in our area and the Police will see that this happens. Also remember, cell phone use is now prohibited in school zones during school days and times.