Elmwood Township Board held a special meeting last week to approve an almost $80,000 contract with civil engineering company Wade Trim, to survey and design a multi-use trail going from the township offices to the M-22 intersection.
Leelanau Enterprise readers should already be familiar with the state’s plan to turn the intersection of M-22, M-72, and Bay Street into a roundabout in 2026. The stoplight there presents a bottleneck for people trying to get in and out of the peninsula via Traverse City, but construction of the roundabout may cause even greater disruptions for people working — or building — in the area.
The Elmwood Township board wants to complete the new multi-use trail off Cherry Bend Road before that happens, and to do that, they need funding. To that end, the board approved a contract with Wade Trim for a topographic survey and 30% of the preliminary design engineering for the Cherry Bend Road sidewalk project.
