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Residents of Point Grey Road already upset with Vancouver’s seawall project are concerned they could be on the hook for $80,000 per household for an optional improvement to widen the sidewalk.

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Vancouver is doubling the width of the sidewalk to three metres as part of a $6.4-million project to complete the 28-kilometre seawall around the city.

City hall said last week that it had received feedback from residents who support the idea of putting up their own cash to relocate power lines underground. Currently, they’re carried by utility poles.

On Tuesday, however, the city said it had tallied a survey and only one block of residents support the idea. The city said those residents are going to finance the design and then decide whether to fund the remainder of the under-grounding of the poles.

The city had said that if there is enough interest from a majority of residents, it would move ahead with plans to relocate the poles. The move would also require B.C. Hydro to place transformer boxes on private property every two to three houses on the north side of Point Grey Road.