Tuesday Night BOC Meeting: banking on an unbuilt road once again?

Just in case you wish to focus more locally Tuesday evening during our historic General Election, Lee Becker once again reports about the "roadway to not here" that should hang around this new Board of Commissioners' necks as an albatross unless some serious revision and planning repair and road reformatting is done in a big hurry to the horrible curve on Daniells Bridge Road in what will be our second huge traffic congestion point without any real consideration of the impact in the adjoining neighborhoods and subdivisions.

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From: Lee Becker <lbbecker@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Subject: Tuesday Night BOC Meeting
To: lbbecker@mindspring.com


Dear Friends,

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night will vote once again on a rezone request that is linked to a roadway that does not exist.

The county's legal advisors have recommended approval of the rezone for property just east of a blind curve on Daniells Bridge Road as part of a settlement in which the county would obtain one acre of land for a proposed roadway that the county has said is at least 10 years from completion. The BOC turned down the rezone in May of 2007.

Until the new road is built, all of us who use Daniells Bridge Road will face increased traffic at a very dangerous section of roadway. Go to my blog for details and even a video showing you how dangerous the road is: http://www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com/

The public hearing on Tuesday–election night--will start at 7 p.m. in the courthouse in Watkinsville. That the county would agree to a public hearing on election night starting at exactly the same time as polling stations are closing for an election of this importance says a lot about the county's approach to the hearing.

If you use Daniells Bridge Road, please plan to attend. If you are simply concerned that development should follow infrastructure, not come before it, please come to the meeting.

If you live in Oconee County and care about this issue, please sign your name to an Internet Petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Daniells/

The petition is on a free site, so it contains advertisements and solicitations for donations that we cannot control. Just ignore them.

Please send this note and the petition to anyone in Oconee County who you think will sign it.

And please consider sending a note to the BOC members telling them how you feel about this rezone. Here are their email addresses:

Melvin Davis, (Chairman), mdavis@oconee.ga.us
Margaret Hale, margarethale@oconee.ga.us
Chuck Horton, chorton@oconee.ga.us
Jim Luke, jluke@oconee.ga.us
Don Norris, dnorris@oconee.ga.us.

Thanks

Lee

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Lee Becker

Blog: www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com

Web: http://lbbecker48.googlepages.com/




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Sincerely,

Dan J. Matthews, Jr.

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