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Planning was at the center of three discussions amidst three hours of Marietta City Council committees Thursday. Pedestrian Safety Planning
Streets Committee Chairwoman Susan Boyer focused her questions on grant administration of the Ohio Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Communities’ programmatic funding Thursday following the citizen-driven outline of pedestrian safety needs along the Franklin Street Corridor in the lower west side (Harmar).
“We were recently contacted as a neighborhood, from the county health department’s Creating Healthy Communities Coalition as part of their 2021 work plan for improving pedestrian infrastructure,” prefaced Councilman Geoff Schenkel, D, Fourth Ward (the ward in which Harmar and the lower west side sit).