Lots in Clarksdale
Coahoma Community College sits just north of town, and Coahoma Early College High School is on its campus. Clarksdale also has the Delta Blues Museum, a long list of stores along US 61 and US 49, churches and public schools. When the Juke Joint Festival and the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival come around, lots get pushed hard. Straight Line Services stripes new or sealed asphalt and draws up new traffic layouts.
We mark fire lanes and no-parking zones, and we do ADA approved layout with accessible stalls, the symbol and a striped access aisle. The ADA requires at least 4 accessible spaces in a lot of 76 to 100 spaces and 5 in a lot of 101 to 150. Each aisle has to be marked so nobody parks in it. Minor concrete and asphalt repair can be done first so the lot takes paint.
Land work around Coahoma County
Coahoma County is flat, heavy Delta ground. MSU Extension notes that the clay takes in water slowly and that drainage is a main issue in the Delta. Around Clarksdale, that shapes every pad and yard. We haul in fill, spread it and shape house and shop pads so water moves off. We grade yards with a laser level and do grading and drainage work for drives and lots.
Out toward the river and along the Sunflower there are wooded tracts, many of them used for hunting. B&M cuts lanes and trails wide enough for a truck and trailer, clears tracts out of thick timber with the timber pushed into windrows, and select clears when you want the good trees kept. We dig ponds and dirt pits with an excavator and dump truck on site.
Permits in Clarksdale
Inside the city, Clarksdale's Public Works and Inspection Department, through its building and inspection division on Sunflower Avenue, handles building permits. If your project is inside city limits, start there. Outside town, check with Coahoma County. Every project is different, so call before work is scheduled. For property downtown, ask whether any extra review applies.
Mississippi law requires notifying 811 before excavation so buried lines get marked. Jobs that disturb 1 acre or more of ground fall under MDEQ construction stormwater rules, with one permit for 1 to less than 5 acres and another for 5 acres or more. Before burning clearing debris, check local ordinances, MDEQ guidelines and any burn ban.
