Herb Schneider

Herb Schneider, Lanesville Town Council Member, 9/18/2002 top >>

Sidewalk dedication deserved coverage

Lanesville Town Council President Herbert Schneider made the request to the commissioners.

"What we're doing here is, our water piping is in serious trouble," he said."Some of it is 100 years old," and some are covered with asbestos.We're going to have to replace all of it," he said.

The town buys its water from the Edwardsville Water Co., which just passed a 13-percent rate increase, said Schneider.

Because of the pipes' age, the town can't run water at full pressure, Schneider said.
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"We can't pass the cost onto our customers or we'd be run out of town," Schneider said.

Lanesville utilities, which include water and septic service, have the highest rates in the area.

"If we have to work on the system now, we have to shut it all down," Schneider said."We have to do something; we just can't go on any longer."

"We're going to have a mess when we tear it up," Schneider said of the project.
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Schneider said money from the county wouldn't be needed until spring.

Herb Schneider, Lanesville Town Council Member, 2002-09-18

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Herb Schneider, a Lanesville Town Council member, said the town never promised it would accept Bittersweet on its system.The letters Fifer speaks of were "letters of interest," he said, not of intent.
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Schneider said the development just had too many homes on too few lots, with no open space whatsoever.

He also said the council had concerns over the nearby intersection of Smith Creek Road and State Road 62.

"There were no plans to upgrade, and there could potentially be 700 more cars at that intersection," he said.

He said when looking at how long it took to get a stoplight installed at Chapel Lane and Charlestown Road, he couldn't in good conscience vote for the subdivision.

"It took a young girl dying to get the state to install a stoplight," he said.

Council President Herb Schneider said in a previous interview that he would not consider Bittersweet in its current form, but would be willing to look at a reconfigured plan.

Herb Schneider, council president, maintained his opposition to the contract negotiations.

Schneider said in a previous interview that he would not consider Bittersweet in its current form, but would be willing to look at a reconfigured plan.
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But Schneider said no such assurances were given, only a promise that the town would consider the idea.