The Sweet Home City Council approved a motion to pave Juniper Street between 35th Avenue and 31st and open the street at Juniper and Hawthorne Way, near Hawthorne School.
In November 1998, the council passed a resolution placing a barricade at Hawthorne Way until such time as the gravel street was improved.
Since then, Public Works Director Mike Adams said, the area has continued to develop with housing and storm drainage improvements. A number of…