By Heather Collins
The Town of Zionsville has been awarded more than $486,000 in matching funds through INDOT’s Next Level Roads: Community Crossings Initiative to fund five local projects.
The funds will be used for the following projects:
- Repairing and resurfacing CR 950 E from approximately the north edge of the Courtyards subdivision to Whitestown Road (joint project with the Boone County Highway Dept.)
- Repairing and resurfacing Oak Street from Quail Run Drive to C.R. 950/Sheets Road
- Reconstructing Parkway Drive
- Reconstructing Brendan Way
- Repairing and Resurfacing Maxwell Lane
Contractors are expected to begin working on all five project in the spring of 2018.
Lance A. Lantz, superintendent of the Zionsville Street & Storm Dept., said the initiative introduces an additional funding source for smaller, maintenance type projects that could not typically be fully funded locally.
“This program continues to be a very viable method to get more money to the local level in a responsible manner without the tremendously complex programs to receive federal funding,” Lantz said. “It allows small communities to fund smaller projects.”
Last year, Zionsville received the maximum amount of $1 million through the program. Those funds went toward the new roundabout at Ford Road and Mulberry Street, repair and resurfacing of the Oak Street, 1st Street and Sycamore Street corridor and repair and resurfacing of Old 106th Street and Templin Road.
“Superior local roads are a key factor in maintaining Indiana’s reputation as the Crossroads of America,” Gov. Eric Holcomb stated in a press release. “I am encouraged that a record number of communities applied for and received funds this year, and I’m grateful to lawmakers for increasing the funding to sustain the community crossings initiative.”
Nearly 400 Indiana cities, towns and counties were awarded $150 million in state matching funds through the initiative this year.
