Along with the hot weather has come hot issues, such as the Lochland annexation and a controversial rezoning request. That's been well-documented. Although we'd love to see periodic showers for the sake of farmers, there are some who reap benefits from the dry weather. Some summers, the local newspaper is writing reports on the construction projects that have fallen behind due to rainy weather. Not this summer.
Construction appears to be moving along at a nice clip.
Construction there is running on schedule. Each day work gets done is one fewer that businesses will have to wait to resume business as usual. Rezoning issues sometimes have the potential to grow into the most tumultuous items to come before city government. Hastings is sitting on just such an issue with a developer's request to change a small section of North Burlington Avenue from residential to commercial in order to build an auto parts store. There's still a ways to go before the issue is decided.