HARMONY — With unanswered questions about its downtown redevelopment grant, borough council Tuesday decided to ask for a return visit from the company that helped devise tentative plans.

Downtown Redevelopment Services sent Harmony its final recommendations last month for use of a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant it received jointly with Zelienople.

After reviewing the presentation, council briefly discussed the recommendations Tuesday and decided it wanted to make DRS President Ben Levenger available to Harmony residents.

At November's council meeting, multiple residents commented they were opposed to a part of the plan that, should council accept it, may gradually curtail traffic on Main Street north and south of the borough's center square, with one resident saying many in the neighborhood thought it was “crazy.”

Eric Pierce renewed opposition to that part of the beautification plan.

“Right now, there's way too many questions that have yet to be answered (and) there's two main issues that have yet to be brought up,” Pierce said. “For example, how is it going to impact the traffic?”

Greg Such, council president, said the proposal of closing portions of Main Street is a possibility and that the borough would consider traffic impact studies when the time comes.

“If you're here to talk about closing the square, that's probably five miles down the road,” Such said.

Council members also had questions about the project.

Councilman Don Simms questioned whether the portion of the RACP grant Harmony is receiving — about $166,000 — would fully fund both the ambitious project and smaller ones, like beautifying sidewalks.

“I think we should prioritize doing things like sidewalks or some roadwork, maybe not the cobblestone,” he said.

Mayor Cathy Rape said one qualm she had about the project was the funding, saying she doesn't want to burden the borough with a need to continually apply for grants.

“We do what we can with the money, and I would like to see electric outlets in the lights, or cluster boxes,” she said.

By the end of the discussion, council agreed the best next step would be to have Levenger address council on the recommendations and to answer questions and concerns, both from the residents and from council members.