Civil Municipal View Feb2023

55 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 HARR I SON, OH of the I-74 interchange at the city’s Dry Fork Road. Neyer remarks, “That’s actually a 2024/25 project. Funding is in place and we’re beginning the engineering on it now because it is a state project. It’s a very long process.” Other road work includes reconstruction and safety improvements on Harrison Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, which extends from the eastern edge to the western boundary, through the main business district. “That road has two large sections scheduled for reconstruction and some safety improvements. There is an overpass halfway between exit one and exit three. The interstate bisects the city, east-west, from the north side and the south side, and that is one of the three major areas to cross over. That overpass does not have sidewalks currently on it, and so we have a safety project that will occur in 2023 to add sidewalks,” says Neyer. Improvements along the Campbell Road industrial area will provide better access for transport, while also making it safer for pedestrians and other traffic. Greenspace and parkland are treasured and protected in Harrison, where a process has been initiated to ensure developments leave natural areas for residents to enjoy. Neyer elaborates, “We encourage new residential developments to use that process so that we can save green space within the community, and then we trade off some other things in