Sanger Herald 3-29-18 E-edition

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A season of building repairing and awakening
North Avenue at J Street
Indianola Avenue at Jensen Avenue
If it seems like there's lots of street construction work going on right now it's because, well, there's lots of street construc- tion work going on right now. Concrete was poured for a new manhole on North Avenue east of J Street on Monday. When that work has been completed the sewer repair project will shift around the corner onto J Street. On the other side of town at Indianola and Jensen, the construction is part of the remaining public improvements required for the Royal Woods subdivision by Lennar, said city engineer Josh Rogers. Those large con- crete pipes are for replacement of an existing Consolidated Irrigation District pipeline. The smaller plastic pipes are for po- table water pipelines to be extended along Jensen Avenue to connect to the existing line in Indianola. The on again, off again street and alley work downtown is part of a PG&E project to replace old gas lines, said public works director John Mulligan.
Bethel and Church avenues
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The long dormant traffic signals at Bethel and Church avenues seem to be awakening. There were flashing red lights on the four corners of the intersection on Wednesday morning. The overhead lights were still covered, but maybe not for long, according to city engineer Josh Rogers. The lights might be fully operational by the Easter weekend.
Planning for the future
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might be incorporated with the more elaborate strategies presented by con- sultant Karl Schoettler.
"We aren't a community. We are a family. Help your family," said San- chez, who advocated supporting HOPE Sanger and creating more homeless shelters in Sanger.
Navarrete, an artist and a high school senior, urged the city to support its homegrown talent. Those people could make existing art programs
for the city work better, rather than spending money to create new pro- grams, he said.
The need to repair Sanger side-
See VISIONS, page 6A
Marina Sanchez
Angelina Gonzalez By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Their visions ranged from creating more homeless shelters to painting traffic boxes to fixing sidewalks to supporting Sanger High School's engi- neering pathway programs.
It was part of a project called PhotoVoice presented to the planning commission at its March 22 meeting by students Marina Sanchez, Krystal Meza, Jose Almeida, Angelina Gonza- lez and Julian Navarrete.
Parts of the general plan for the city were being considered at the same commission meeting and the stu- dents obviously hoped their concepts
Krystal Meza and Jose Almeida.
Julian Navarrete
Karl Schoettler
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
"This will be Sanger's front porch to the world," said consultant Karl Schoet- tler. He was talking about
the little more than 260 acres Sanger is planning to annex along what is being called the "Academy Corridor" from Sanger's north city limits to Highway 180.
Schoettler was telling the planning commission some things it would have to con- sider when thinking about what kinds of businesses could be located in the "cor- ridor."
An agreement with the county limits the kind of de- velopment which can occur in the area, said Schoettler.
"We can only do planning for commercial, not resi- dential. It'sanarealarger than River Park in Fresno. We'll have difficulty filling it with commercial sites. We may be able to change our agreement with the county sometime in the future."
The reporter can be contacted by email at sang- erherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
• April 3 - Measure S Citizens Oversight Committee meeting at 6 p.m. at city hall, 1700 7th Street.
• April 5 - City council meeting at 6 p.m. at city hall, 1700 7th Street.
• April 10 - Senior exit interviews all day at the high school, 1045 N Bethel Avenue.
• April 10 - School board meeting at 7 p.m. the dis- trict office, 1905 7th Street.
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THURSDAY
MARCH 29, 2018
VOL 129 NO. 13
2 sections, 16 pages
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