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The corner of Pine Street and North Street.

Granville’s Pine Street residents will be receiving new numbers to their residences next month.

Washington County Real Property director Laura B. Chadwick on Dec. 6 informed the Granville Village Board that the 25-30 residences on Pine Street will be receiving new address numbers with the catalyst for the change being a new residence at the end of the street requesting a 911 address change.

“At the far end of Pine Street, we had a request for a 911 address. Our office at Washington County Real Property issues 911 addresses, mailing addresses with a subdivided property. When they’re getting ready to build, they call our office for a new address,” Chadwick said.

All residents will be notified of the address change after Jan. 1 and will be sent a notification of a new address on Jan. 20 after filling out an address change form in the mail.

Chadwick informed the board that back in 1998-1999, Washington County Real Property assigned numbers to streets for all town residences, not village, because most villages were “pretty good” with uniformity and numbering addresses in sequence (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 etc.).

However, the situation on Pine Street gets complicated because there are open lots in between residences where owners of the lot could subdivide. With the new address at the end of the street, this could create issues with the numbering of addresses if subdivisions in those open spaces were to occur.

For example, with the current sequencing of addresses, if the new address was hypothetically located at 60 Pine Street, and the owner of the lot on 58 Pine Street decided to subdivide, there would be two 60 Pine Streets in the 911 system.

“We’re going to give this guy right here a new address who is at the very end when we don’t know what’s going to happen here (before that address),” Chadwick said.

Chadwick used town supervisor Matt Hicks, who was in attendance, as an example to explain her point of the uneven spacing.

“If you look at 9 Pine St. where Mr. Hicks lives, it goes from 5 to 9 to 13 to 15, 17,19 (Pine Street). We don’t like that, that’s too confusing,” she said.

The 911 system isn’t equipped to measure half-residences, as is the case with 14 ½ Pine Street. Chadwick called this something that is overdue and was last seen in Whitehall but is not a common occurrence.

Hicks and Chadwick both said that it’s okay for the people familiar with the town and the village and know where people live, but it can be difficult for a first responder on their way to an emergency who doesn’t know the area.

Chadwick said Washington County Real Property will be notifying the Granville Post Office and Google of new addresses while it will be up to the Pine Street residents themselves to change their addresses when making online purchases and on their identification cards.