To the Chapel Hill Town Council:

We, residents of the Cedar Hills neighborhood, request that the Town of Chapel Hill implement traffic-calming measures on our streets (Cedar Hills Drive, Silo Drive, and Cedar Hills Circle).  Our neighborhood is overused as a
"cut-through" from Airport Road via Piney Mountain Road to Weaver Dairy
Road. This problem will be aggravated by the development of the Horace Williams tract since Piney Mountain/Cedar Hills will be an attractive "cut-through" for vehicles traveling back and forth from there to the northeastern side of Chapel Hill.  

People currently drive on our roads well above the posted speed limit of 25
MPH, thus posing serious danger to pedestrians and school children.   Students cutting through our neighborhood to get to East Chapel Hill High School are particularly problematic.

Once or twice a year the Chapel Hill Police Department assigns an officer to attempt to catch speeders and stop-sign runners in our neighborhood.  We appreciate their effort.   However, we believe that traffic calming measures will provide a more effective, longer-term solution to the problem of speeding and
reckless driving through our neighborhood.

Name                                     Address                                                       

Mia Burroughs           110 Cedar Hills Drive

Lisa Everett               18 Wysteria Way

Charlotte Pearce       36 Cedar Hills Circle

Claudia Prose           123 Cedar Hills Circle

Karen Vanderwall     114 Cedar Hills Drive   

March 30, 2004