ARGYLE — Johnson Acres residents took a page from the playbook of residents along Sam Davis Road and actively campaigned to have their streets repaved.

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Charyl Lynn Lane in Argyle is shown Wednesday. Residents of the Johnson Acres neighborhood have been campaigning to have their road paved, and Charyl Lynn was one of several streets the City Council recommended for repair.

Residents submitted a petition to the Town Council earlier this month and went a council meeting in force Tuesday to underscore the need to repave two streets in their neighborhood, Charyl Lynn Lane and Joyce Drive.

Last year, one or two residents living on Sam Davis Road came to every meeting to remind the council that they wanted their road paved. At the time, it was one of the longest unpaved city streets in the county.

Shirley Roberson has lived in the John­son Acres neighborhood for three de­cades and has never seen the roads in front of her house repaved.

“Before I lived here, I couldn’t say, but I’ve been here 34 years and they’ve only filled potholes,” Roberson said.

About half of the 50 homes in the neighborhood were built in the 1970s. The others have been built in the past decade.

In a workshop session prior to the meeting, Public Works Di­rector Troy Norton presented the council with several recommended paving projects for 2008.

Argyle has budgeted about $300,000 to reconstruct and re­pave city streets.

Both Charyl Lynn Lane and Joyce Drive were among those recommended. Norton graded both streets a “2,” meaning they were in poor condition and re­quired base repair along with reconstruction. He gave the council preliminary estimates totaling about $83,000 to fix those two streets.

He recommended that the city not widen either of them, because it would be too expensive to move the ditches, which are several feet deep in some places to accommodate large storm flows in the area.

“That could cause flooding problems,” Norton said.

He also graded Thornridge Circle a “2” and recommended por­tions of it be repaired, estimating a $35,500 cost for that project.

Norton graded Eagle Drive and portions of Crawford Road as “3” and “4,” meaning they need patches and repairs before a major overlay. But he recommended those roads also be repaired this summer before Argyle reopens the old elementary school campus.

He estimated that project would cost about $190,000.

“That way we can get ahead of it,” Norton said.

Town Administrator Lyle Dre­sher said all the street work was planned for this summer.

Roberson said she was pleased that the town put her street on the to-do list.

“This is how a small-town government is supposed to work,” she said. “They help you and take care of what you need.”

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881. Her e-mail address is pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com .