(Enlarge) York Road, seen here just south of 43rd Street, is slated for a $5 million streetscaping project starting next spring. The project includes repaving, new curbs and new sidewalks. (Photo by Nate Pesce)

A stretch of York Road near the Loyola University-Guilford area is expected to get a makeover, starting next spring.

The city project calls for road resurfacing between Cold Spring Lane and Glenwood Street and new curbs and sidewalks between Glenwood and 43rd.

Cold Spring to 43rd was resurfaced in the fall of 2008, but no curbs or sdewalks were done for that stretch at that time, said City Councilman Bill Henry, of the 4th District, who represents the York Road corridor.

The project budget is about $5 million, but residents and merchants along the mixed-use stretch of the corridor will be asked to weigh in on what they want the road to look like and what their highest and lowest priorities are because there's likely not enough money to do everything that everybody would like, from street lighting to aethetically pleasing crosswalks, Henry said.

"The community will get to do prioritizing and (decide) tradeoffs," Henry said.

A public meeting was held earlier this month, and a second one is tentatively planned for December, Henry said.

City officials are warning that the project, although slated to start next spring, might carry over into the spring of 2011, Henry said.

This is the last streetscaping project being done of York Road. Streetcaping along the road has been going on in the city and county at least since 2005, when a $6.3 million project between Stevenson Lane and Northern Parkway was completed.

Other projects included one for $1.6 million between Northern and Tunbridge Road.

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