The Tucson City Council will vote Tuesday on a plan to widen Broadway between Euclid Avenue and Country Club Road.
The proposal before the council would widen the stretch of Broadway just east of downtown to six lanes and would include six-foot-wide bike lanes and sidewalks.
Expansion work would be done on the north side of the road, and use both city-owned and private land.
The project was first discussed in 1987, and one official said it is time to make a decision.
“We owe it to the community," Councilman Steve Kozachik said. "We owe it to the private property owners, the businesses all along that corridor to lock something in stone and say this is what you can count on. Now that is not going to be the end of the conversation. It’s really the beginning of the conversation.”
If passed, employees from the city's real estate office will begin work on a plan to compensate property owners who would lose land to the project.
Kozachik said he thinks the latest plan will pass.
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