CITY SEEKS RESIDENTS' INPUT ON ROAD SAFETY.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer Designing a Borchard Road extension may be partly in the hands of residents, who are being asked to join a committee with traffic engineers to hammer out safety features for the controversial road. City officials hope the committee will resolve residents' concerns over the debated roadway to the new Dos Vientos planned community Noun 1. planned community - a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents residential area, residential district, community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences , but residents are concerned that anything shy of a lower grade will not be safe. ``It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have still too steep and nothing's going to change it,'' said resident Wayne Possehl, one of 850 residents who this past week received a packet of information from the city as follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan to a recent town hall meeting. ``That's where they should put their efforts. How do we make it not too steep?'' At its meeting Tuesday, the City Council will consider forming the committee, to be made up of representative from three traffic engineering firms and one from three residential interests - Concerned Residents for a Safe Borchard Road, Casas de la Senda Homeowners' Association A homeowners' association (abbrev. HOA) is the legal entity created by a real estate developer for the purpose of developing, managing and selling a community of homes. and environmental groups. Borchard Road, a main street across the city, has been embroiled em·broil tr.v. em·broiled, em·broil·ing, em·broils 1. To involve in argument, contention, or hostile actions: "Avoid . . . in controversy and legal problems ever since residents earlier this year began stepping up opposition to what they say will be an unsafe road extension - mostly because the city agreed to allow a 12 percent grade. The city issued a stop-work order this summer to stop grading of the road while concerns were addressed, but a judge ordered the city to allow the work to continue, saying the developer had a right to build the road. The city and the developer continue a legal battle over how to complete the road - with the city saying the developer is responsible for slowing vehicular speeds to 40 mph through various safety measures safety measures, n.pl actions (e.g., use of glasses, face masks) taken to protect patients and office personnel from such known hazards as particles and aerosols from high-speed rotary instruments, mercury vapor, radiation exposure, anesthetic and , and the developer arguing the conditions being imposed were not part of the original development agreement. While the legal battle continues, the committee will be charged with producing a report that recommends design proposals to safely accommodate traffic - such as with a lower grade or with street improvements that could include stop signs, warning bumps bumps a term used to describe a variety of papulonodular dermatoses in horses, including 'heat bumps', 'feed bumps', 'protein bumps', 'wheat bumps' and others. No specific disease or etiology has been assigned to the term and veterinary dermatologists wish it would disappear from use. in the road or caution lights to urge drivers to slow down. |
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