Walking children to school, riding bikes to the park or strolling with the baby – all on sidewalks -- will become a welcome luxury for residents along Fieldstone Drive and Magnolia Street, where pedestrians have been forced to hug the curb for decades.
In January, the town will use leftover grant money to lay concrete sidewalks down the entire length of Fieldstone and a portion of Magnolia.
"I say it's been needed," said Allan Eakle, who moved to Fieldstone when it was a dirt road ending at the Fieldstone Presbyterian Church.
He said he can still recall what the town told him when he bought his property. "They told us when we moved on Fieldstone if they ever decide to put in sidewalks, they have the right of way (to do so)," he said.
That was 41 years ago.
The sidewalks may be a bit overdue for an area that includes South Elementary and Mooresville High schools as well as Edgemoor and Bellingham parks. But local residents were enthusiastic about the project on display at the Charles Mack Citizen Center last Thursday evening.
The design includes plans to run a sidewalk down the west side of Fieldstone, opposite the two churches on the street, about a mile and a half in length from Edgemoor to Bellingham Park.
On Magnolia, the town will lay about another mile of sidewalk on the east side of the street from Edgemoor to Heatherly, the same side as the former Mooresville Middle School.
In addition, the sidewalk on both streets will branch off down side streets, including Edgemoor on the south side as well as Ridgecrest and Heatherly on the north sides. That will create a continuous loop of sidewalks five feet wide with a planting strip that is three feet in width, officials said.
To read this story in its entirety, see today's Mooresville Tribune.
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