<div>Dwight and all, </div>
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<div>The Wakovia Project is in the final stages of approval. The town gave its recommendation for approval to Park and Planning several months back. We are now in the process of modifying the covenants on the property.
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<div>The council followed my recommendation and demanded that the property owner surrender a strip of land along Route 1 sufficient to provide another turn lane. This will be part of the new covenants, and once signed the developer will be free to move forward.
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<div>We are taking a very proactive stance to bring improvement to the Route 1/410 intersection of which getting the above mentioned strip of land is but one piece. State highway has a fund for improving intersections where land taking is not needed. If we can line up the ground, then state highway can provide second left turn lanes on Route One. Even casual observation of the traffic snarls there reveals that the main cause of backups is left turns.
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<div>It is my opinion (though not necessarily stated town policy) that improving this intersection is the single most important step we can take to alleviate traffic inside the town. Getting it done requires many small, rather mundane acts/steps, so it is hard to keep everyone abreast of progress, but I try to keep putting updates in the Crier as well as this list.
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Vern<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dwight Holmes</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwightrholmes@gmail.com
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Thank you for the clear synopsis -- this is all good news.<br><br>Speaking of the Wakovia project, what is the status of that? Thanks!
<br><br>On 1/31/07, Vernon Archer <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:varcher@gmail.com" target="_blank">varcher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Lastly, I'd like to share some thoughts on "mitigation" of new development
<br>> projects. All new projects of any size at all have to have a traffic impact <br>> study done, and if there is even minor impact on failing or near failing<br>> interchanges, mitigation work is required at the expense of the development.
<br>> This is true of Dumm's Corner project just as it is of the EYA and Wakovia <br>> projects. Certainly pedestrian safety is a significant part of keeping<br>> interchanges from failing.<br>><br>> Best wishes,
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