Some landowners refuse city's right of way request

A request from the city to landowners for extra right of way for the first phases of improvements on Greenwood Rd. and Toledo St. has received multiple denials.

Although the city did not receive any objections for creation of the street improvement districts for either of the roads, John Hehnke estimates that around 75 percent of landowners on the east side of Greenwood Rd. denied the city’s request for seven extra feet of right of way.

Toledo St. and Greenwood Rd. were originally built along county section lines. At that time law mandated that on every section line the county was deeded 66 fe...