Our View: Ordinance needed to ensure better streets

Havre City Council has considered a proposal to beautify and diversify the city by encouraging developers and contractors to build streets that are more attractive and designed with sidewalks and bike lanes.

Those actions would beautify the city and increase use of bicycles that could encourage healthy living and energy conservation.

Going into it, city officials are well aware that in a lot of cases there is no room to build bike lanes or add other attractive features that might make life a little more pleasant. But there is near unanimity that some sort of action like this is necessar...