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Blog: Expect Traffic Increases Along With High-Density Project on Oklahoma Road

Commissioner Doug Howard plans to bring 1000's of additional cars a day to Eldersburg and Oklahoma Road by allowing, supporting and promoting a high density Assisted Living Facility there.

While driving on Oklahoma Road in Eldersburg, you cannot help but notice one of the dozen or two dozen signs on the side of the road saying "Stop Development on Oklahoma Road" and directing you to noalf.blog.com. This site hosts many details about as well as detailed planning/development pictures of, the county’s plan to put 100's, if not 1000's of more residents on Oklahoma Road. In addition to those residents, there will be many visitors coming to visit residents at the planned Assisted Living Facility and many workers coming to service the residents at the planned Assisted Living Facility.

If you routinely travel Oklahoma Road, you are well aware that the road already carries far more traffic then it was designed to, between Oklahoma Estates traffic, McDonald’s traffic, Oklahoma Road Middle School traffic and those that are trying to bypass about a dozen traffic lights in Eldersburg by using the Bennett Road/Oklahoma Road route. In fact, the Bennett Rd to Oklahoma Rd traffic has increased so much; the county spent (wasted) a million dollars installing a roundabout on Bennett, as well as lowered the speed limit to 30mph.

If traffic or over development in Eldersburg is a concern of yours, you should consider writing and expressing those concerns to Commissioner Doug Howard. I know I will be writing Commissioner Howard and telling him that enough is enough, stop over-developing your district and that High Density Development has no place in Eldersburg, whether it's the Section 8 housing across from Carrolltown Center, the town homes being built by the intersection of Rt. 32 and Raincliffe Road, or this Assisted Living Facility. The last set of commissioners got the message that residents were tired of the changes occurring in Eldersburg, when during the last election, 4 out of 5 (including Commissioner Howard) were voted in as replacements.

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Status Quo should be your number 1 priority Commissioner Howard! Those that live here and pay taxes (a lot of property taxes actually) deserve to have a Status Quo lifestyle, where any decisions you make are made with existing resident Status Quo being the number one and heaviest weighted determining factor in your decision making. Any development you consider, commercial or residential, should not be approved if it disturbs existing residents. Growth can still occur with this approach, but it happens in a much more controlled, as well as less irritating manner.

 

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Please find Commissioner Howards contact information here:

http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/commiss/dist5.asp

And detailed information on the site plan can be found here:

http://noalf.blog.com

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