The City of Sandusky is seeing growth that they haven’t experienced for 20 years. At their city council meeting Monday night, City Manager Dave Faber told council members according to the recent census that was taken, Sandusky grew it’s population to 2,709 as of the year 2020.
That number represents an increase of 189 people who have moved in to the City of Sandusky. The previous high mark was in the year 2000 when the Census Bureau said there were 2,745 people calling Sandusky home.
Since that time, there had been a steady decline in population for Sandusky, until the spike in numbers 20 years later. The increase in residents translates into additional funding from the State, according to Faber.
He told council despite the restrictions of COVID and all that was involved economically, there has also been permits pulled for five new housing construction projects within the city limits.
Sandusky receives just over $263,000 dollars from the Michigan Department of Treasury, based on their population. That figure is second only to Worth Township who has 1,100 more residents, as of 2019, and receives more than $380,000 dollars from the State.
In other council news, Faber told council he has received word from the Michigan Department of Transportation that street work on North Sandusky Road will be getting underway in October.
Faber said just this week, contracts had been secured for the repaving work to be done by Pyramid Paving at an estimated cost of nearly $283,000 dollars with Sandusky paying a match amount of 20 percent.
The work calls for the repaving of a stretch of the road from Sanilac Ave. (M-46) north to the City limits. Faber said the work is expected to be completed by the end of October and is part of the upcoming major reconstruction of Sanilac Ave through Sandusky where a detour of north on Dawson Street, east on Argyle Street and then south on North Sandusky will be used while MDOT crews totally reconstruct the highway through town, including the M-19 and M-46 intersection. That project is slated for 2024, unless changed by MDOT.
