Following an at times contentious meeting, the Paradise Valley Town Council voted on Thursday to approve a series of contracts needed to start work on the long-planned, $17.5 million Mockingbird Lane-56th Street to Invergordon Road project.

Mockingbird Lane between 56th Street and Invergordon Road is an east-west collector that is striped as a two-lane roadway with bike lanes on each side and a sidewalk on the north side. The posted speed limit is 35 miles per hour, according to a staff report.