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West Lincoln to sell unused road
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By Evan Loree For NewsNow An undeveloped Attercliffe road on the outskirts of West Lincoln is being divvied up and sold off. After a short discussion at a planning meeting Monday night, West Lincoln council endorsed staff‘s plans to sell an unused road allowance to the owners of seven lots adjacent to the townshipowned land. “It’s good to see this,” said Coun. Jason Trombetta at the meeting. Trombetta said there are a few unused roads in the township causing problems. “We’re getting nothing but Jeep convoys going through them, abandoned burning cars and so on and so forth,” Trombetta said. Delivery drivers sometimes get stuck on the muddy paths and others use the roads to illegally dump their trash, Trombetta added after the meeting. Unused roads are owned by the township, but are not maintained like regular roads. Trombetta said roads like these get overgrown and the residents living near them try to maintain them but can only do so much. The township doesn’t have the millions of dollars needed to pave them and bring them all up to standard, he added. Some rural residents, Trombetta said, have unused roads cutting through their property. This forms a physical barrier as it becomes overgrown, making it harder for farmers to move machinery from one side See ROAD, Page 3