Saturday, February 11, 2012

February village council meeting: "Flat Rock officials size up sidewalk plans, discuss traffic study"

From the Times-News, a write-up of Thursday's monthly village council meeting:
Flat Rock Village Council continues to move forward with a sidewalk project on West Blue Ridge Road, and it discussed an easement for a piece of property at Thursday's meeting.

The property, identified as "the Nelson Property," will need to be obtained through an easement, and the cost will be about $8,000, Councilman Don Farr said. The sidewalks will run from Greenville Highway to Bonclarken Lake on West Blue Ridge Road.

The council agreed to move forward with the plan, and an engineer is working to sort out details of the drainage design.

The council also discussed funding half of a traffic study for Greenville Highway at the Singleton Centre. A median at the center's entrance on Greenville Highway prevents left-hand turns into the center, but center owner Jane Singleton would like to remove the median to allow left-hand turns. The N.C. Department of Transportation is requiring a traffic study to determine whether removing the median would be safe....

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