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Discussion of public use and maintenance of private streets as it relates to the Whispering Hills HOA
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is to provide the Board of Aldermen with an update on the issues identified by the Whispering Hills HOA, staff assessment of current conditions, collected data, and potential next steps.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning, Public Works
CONTACT INFORMATION: Zachary Hallock, 919-918-7329, zhallock@townofcarrboro.org; Trish McGuire, 919-918-7327, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org; Joe Guckavan, 919-918-7427, jguckavan@townofcarrboro.org; Tina Moon, 919-918-7325, cmoon@townofcarrboro.org
INFORMATION: This issue was previously presented to the Board of Aldermen on January 25, 1994, where the Board referred the issue back to the HOA to petition its members and conduct their own traffic counts. The agenda item and associated staff reports from this meeting has been included as Attachment B. The minutes from that meeting can be found as Attachment C.
In the spring of 2018, Town staff were informed of the issue related to maintenance and upkeep of Lantern Way by the Whispering Hills HOA. They make the argument that due to the fact that Daffodil Lane, S Peak Street, and Lantern Way form a connected route between Old Pittsboro Road and King Street, which public traffic is utilizing their streets as an alternate route to avoid any one of: traffic congestion in Downtown, traffic congestion along NC Hwy 54, or construction delay caused by the S Greensboro roundabout project.
Staff met with the HOA representatives on October 26, 2018 and began assessing what could be done to meet the concerns of residents. Traffic counts along King Street and Daffodil Lane were collected in February 2019 and April 2019, in order to assess the current conditions of traffic volumes along the streets internal to the Whispering Hills development. The traffic counts collected in April indicate that about 100 trips (out of a total of around ...
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