ATTACHMENT 1

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Mayor and Town Council

FROM:

Terry Blalock, Chair, Parks and Recreation Commission

SUBJECT:

Draft NC 86 / Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Town-Wide Pedestrian Safety Evaluation Study

DATE:

March 21, 2007

The Commission voted unanimously (9-0) to recommend that the Council adopt the Study as presented. The Commission also recommended that implementation of the plan be prioritized such that the following intersections be given priority as a group. These were selected because they would provide access from the east side of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Homestead Park and the future Aquatics Center. The intersections are also prioritized in order of preference in the event that funds are insufficient to construct all three improvements:

 

  1. Homestead Road
  2. Stateside Drive
  3. Dixie Lane (with the addition of warning lights and a crosswalk)

 

Present: Terry Blalock, Chair; Faith Nager, Vice-Chair; Betsey Anderson; Neal Bench; Bob Broad, Cory Brooks; Eugene Farrar; Joan Guilkey; and Diane VandenBroek

Absent: Pete Schwartz and Andre Wesson.      A quorum was present.