Central Huron council has approved the creation of a website to keep business owners and resident up to date on the reconstruction on Albert Street in Clinton through this summer.
Mayor Jim Ginn says the site would be a way to keep businesses informed of everything that's going on and, in particular, a schedule of when their front entrances would be accessible.
He says they're hoping front entrances would be accessible all but a few days and then customers would have to enter the stores through the back doors.
"We're hoping to keep it to just a few days that people's front entrances aren't available and they'll have to take their customers in through the back doors,” said Ginn. “With the county re-doing the road this year, this is when we have to do it. The road will be paved all the way out to Base Line, so that'll make it nice and we're going to improve the aesthetics of the downtown in those two block areas.”
Ginn adds they understand that this summer, after a year and a half with the pandemic, isn't the best time to be tearing up the main street. But he points out, with the county re-doing the paving this year, it had to be done now.