Final Report_03.02.2000_Comp Plan Steering

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Page I of 2 Notes for Bill Scotts' 1-14-99 talk with the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee A. Thanks for this opportunity to present our concerns to the committee. I'll condense our points of concern. 576+ La Porte Residents have signed a petition to stop ALL Phases of this highway. As a benchmark of public sentiment against the road, Only 997 residents voted in the last general City election. B. Common Sense Government: I.We are a group of residents from Lomax ,Glen Meadows, and Fairmont Park that have organized to stop Phases 1,2, and 3 of a planned highway through our front yards. in some cases our homes are very close to the road as it is now. • Background on why we are at this meeting 2. We believe the increased traffic caused by the proposed Phase I road will greatly increase the danger to people and animals as they use Lomax School Road to ride horses, walk 4-H animals, jog, bike, walk their dogs, go to schools, and generally travel in the area. 3. Lomax School Road is the community travel Hub of Lomax. We believe that stacking a large amount commuter through traffic on top of the already heavy and diversified local traffic will have a large negative impact on our local community environment safety, and property values... and of course all of the commuter traffic has to come down H St. , L St., or P St. to get to Lomax School Road. 4. The well intentioned committees of the 84' Committees apparently did not realize that IN LOMAX, STREETS ARE OUR SIDEWALKS. The ditches start at the edge of the roads and are very steep and very deep. 5. Almost the same situation exists on Farrington Blvd. in Glen Meadows and Faurnont Park. 6. Some Residents in Glen Meadows and Fairmont Park that five away from Farrington Blvd. now want this Phase 1 road as a convenience because their children have been or will be moved to Lomax Elementary,or for convenient travel to recreational events. These same people bought their homes with a known existing road structure of dead ends and Tees that were intentionally designed to control traffic, maintain their property values and to help protect their environment from crime, pollution, and dangers to their children. They strongly guard their own existing road system ...but they think it is OK to destroy our existing road system for their own convenience of saving a few minutes travel time during the period that their children attend Lomax Elementary. This is a flat out violation of property rights. Any way you slice it or dice it; this is dangerous, unfair, unethical, and just plain Wrong.