What Regrading Has Already Accomplished for Some on Mill Road

Resident's Driveway Status Left Up In The Air
By Louise Edwards with The Citizen 7/9/2008

It's a puzzler: What do you do when the city reconstructs your road, and your driveway ends up four-and-a-half feet too high? In Centerville resident Cathy Fruth's case, she decided to bring the matter before the city council. At its regular June 25 meeting, the Centerville City Council heard that re-grading work done on Fruth's driveway leading to her property on Old Mill Road as part of a city project had left her with a seven percent grade, which she was finding too steep to navigate. "Twice I have almost hit other cars, not being able to stop because of [the steepness of the drive now]," she told council members. Fruth said that through the snow and ice of the winter, she had been unable to access her drive in her vehicle without crossing the street and "taking three runs at it." Council members resolved to send the city engineer out to inspect the property and report back at a future meeting as to what needed to be done.