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Published Monday, February 06, 2012 in Local

Commission to hear plan to fix railroad crossing at Walt Sanders

By Sarah Fay Campbell

The Newnan Times-Herald

A proposal to move forward with improving one of the railroad crossings at Walt Sanders Road and U.S. 29 North is on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of the Coweta County Board of Commissioners.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. and will be held in the county commission chambers on Perry Street in downtown Newnan.

The proposal is to improve the northern crossing, while closing the southern crossing. The project is expected to cost $69,500, if work is done by county forces.

The development and engineering department is recommending that the commissioners approve the expenditure and schedule a public hearing on the closure and abandonment of the southern crossing.

Everything is contingent upon the railroad company, CSX, approving the plans.

Other items on the agenda include:

• A possible bid award for clean-up of the dump site at 64 Ishman Ballard Road.

The low bid, from Horton's Inc., is $11,400. That includes demolishing and removing the four existing structures on the property and hauling all debris, removing tires to a tire recycling facility and paying the fee for tire disposal, smoothing, seeding and straw-covering all disturbed areas, filling in and closing the well, and installing 200 feet of silt fence.

With that bid, clean-up of the area will be much less expensive than initially estimated.

This summer, some were estimating the clean-up could total $75,000 or more.

An asbestos assessment cost $3,000, and the asbestos removal cost $7,875.

• A vote on amendments to the county's tree protection ordinance, designed to simplify the ordinance.

• A request from the city of Newnan to annex 0.78 acres of land on Poplar Road, and de-annex 0.6 acres. The plan is to zone the property General Commercial District for medical and commercial development across from the future Piedmont Newnan Hospital at Poplar and I-85.

• Recommendations regarding an unsafe structure at 95 Armco First Street.

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