Re: New East-West connector road meeting 6/16/05
My understanding is that the State is pushing us to create more evacuation routes. Also, the County is also looking ahead so that we don't have one main road running east / west, creating traffic nightmares like Destin. There will be good and bad effects of creating such a thing.
I have said for a long time that I could see Chat Holley becoming restaurant row in the future. My guess is that much of the property on both sides of Chat Holley and Churchill will change zoning to commercial. We will probably see 3 lanes of traffic instead of two (maybe later in time). I see some bulldozers at work already on property between 393 and 331, the Charles Forman property.
Obviously, on the east side of Hwy 331, there are many issues involved with making major roads through so much State Forest. Of course, Doodle Harris has just paved over a mile of road through the State Forest to access the Estuary, so I don't expect much resistance to this idea of extending the connector road through Hwy 395. For some people in the area of Point Washington, the drive to the Blue Bar and the Sea Bar will be a straight shot, so maybe that is a good thing?
Unfortunately, it seems that each time we have important meetings such as this, I am scheduled to be out of the area. I look forward to a full report from someone.