Kathleen Penney, a deputy chief engineer, said in an interview yesterday that the department had budgeted $18.4 million to widen and repave roads, repair curbs, add traffic lights and signs and plant trees near the ballpark.
Stamford spends around $50,000 a year on asphalt for the kind of repair work Mr. Lent and Mr. Candito perform, which is mostly filling potholes but also repairing curbing and driveway aprons often damaged by winter plowing.
Others complained that they are being charged for repairs to curbs, gutters and sidewalks although they live on private roads that have none.
He came under intense criticism last month for presenting an assessment district plan that would have levied yearly fees of up to $96.67 against the owner of an average single-family home to pay for repairs to curbs, gutters, street lights and sidewalks.
The area also will see new trash cans and benches, plus sidewalk and curb repairs.
Officials pledged to repair ties with Greece, curb human rights abuses and launch ambitious privatization and inflation-fighting programs.
Targeted for repair are sidewalks and curbs that had been damaged by the roots of large ficus trees that line the street.
In early April an emergency high-tension electric wire that now runs across the property is to be removed, clearing the way for repairs to streets, curbs, sidewalks and the esplanade along the river, as well as the restoration of normal north and south pedestrian traffic within Battery Park City.
They are charged with repairing sidewalks and curbs damaged by tree roots.
The district would levy annual fees ranging from $60.11 to $96.67 for an average single-family home over a 10-year period to pay for $17 million worth of repairs to sidewalks, curbs, gutters and street lights.
