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[email protected] SIXTY CENTS Westfield to Bag On-Street Meters From Thanksgiving to New Year’s By PAUL J. PEYTON enue, which bagged 100 on-street said Scudder Road qualifies as a Specially Written for The Westfield Leader meters for a day last year, received a neighborhood access road and re- WESTFIELD — Westfield shop- great deal of good feedback from that quires the street be widened from 18 pers will have the opportunity to park marketing decision. to 24 feet in width to allow sufficient for free this holiday season. “You can’t measure that impact,” space for on-street parking and for As part of a recommendation by Ms. Cronin said. cars to pass. the Downtown Westfield Corpora- In other business, the council re- Mr. Gildea said all 14 residents on tion (DWC), the management entity moved Scudder Road from the list of the street would be notified of the for the downtown special improve- various road projects being completed town’s decision to widen the road- ment district, and the Westfield Area by Schifano Construction Corp. of way. He told The Westfield Leader Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Andy Middlesex. The town hired the com- that the road is not consistent in width Skibitsky and the town council signed pany to mill and pave Scudder Road due to the curbing and brush.