TC 05-07-02 Meeting MinutesTransportation Committee Public Hearing
May 7, 2002
Acting Chairman: Darwin S. Braden
Staff Presentation
Public Hearing:
1. Doug Dolan - Blue Ridge Board of Realtors
• Can't eliminate Route 37 without revisiting the entire road system/network
• Accident are a commonplace on the existing road network
• Existing road plan is necessary to accommodate "growth" already in the pipelines
• Don't pass along 2002 plan as proposed
2. Charles Weis - Chamber of Commerce
• Comprehensive Plan include road planning
• Safety, manage traffic: Comp Planning
• Route 37 is very ... to manage our future development
3. John Hood - Opequon District
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• Transit
• Route 37 will assist through traffic, it will help people from getting lost, its safe,
transportation
• Why improve Rt. 11 ?
• Go back to the 2001 plan, it was a well thought out plan
• Take 277 money, spend it on 37
• Community that provides safety for its citizens
• Plan without 37 is not a plan
4. Chuck Maddox - G.W. Clifford & Associates - Shawnee property owner
• 37 provides a network to bypass our urban area, et provides a network for local
people
• Mason Collection (Warr
• 1989 WATS effort -key plan
• Run models to determine necessary roads, WATS is a model that works
• Funding source
• 2°d road fund - 5yr to build Greenway
• Primary Road Fund
• Lose
• Rt.m37 limited access
• Not an ED. Tool
• County co.. Zoning
• Public Hearing: 15 yrs ...
• LOS
• Growth
• 90-01:
• RA: Stable
• RP: Stable
• Rate of Growth:
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90:4.2%
• 91: 2.4%
• Submitted Document for Records
5.
• Spend to much time on "roads", look at land or ACSO
• Build 37 and eliminate some exits on 81
• CCC sponsored Kellirco in March, use consensus, not public hearing
6. Docan
7. TY Lawson
• Opinion: include 37
• Give opinion
Close Hearing
Jerry Copp (for record)
• Need route 37, supportive of WATS
• 3781 x522
• 37 Stonewall
Bob Sager
• Not to sway TC
• Collector roads cannot accommodate traffic projections for the future
• Without 37, Tasker Road becomes a major roadway, above its intended use
• Without 37, causes to much cross traffic
• Without 37, city needs to redesign roads to accommodate Frederick County traffic
Straub
• Roads should be built first
• Build roads though farmland, not neighborhoods
• Wants setbacks, landscape medians, cloverleafs, flyovers
Chairman
• "Can't solve problem until you identify it"
• Problem: moving large volumes of traffic
Without 37, subject matters need to be revisited
Flying J Bridge - 6 lanes
277 - 5-6 lanes
- County tells CTD what concerns are, once item anniute, study, design con