A special assessment district to pay for extended city sidewalks at Cook Road on the west edge of the city was approved by the Hastings City Council Monday, but it may not be needed.

Tyler Guernsey, representing Dairy Queen, said he was fully in favor of the sidewalk extension that would run past the business and offered to put it in himself without a special assessment.

City Manager Jeff Mansfield said with 650 feet of the parcel, Guernsey has a large share of the proposed work, and he will talk to the other property owners to see if they also want to do the work without special assessment. The sidewalks will be on West State Steet/M43 from Industrial Park Drive west on both sides of the road.

Agreements with property owners would call for sidewalks built to city specifications and a completion date. “If the owners want to install them, I’m all for it,” Mansfield said.