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Minutes of the Master Street Plan Committee meeting on August 28, 2014
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Members present: Mike Cameron, Ann Garner, Paul Hoelscher, Eugene Holloway, Ben Owens (chair), Bill Smith, Councilman John Street, Garry Tate
Members absent: Jim Abel, Josh Brown, Marvin Day and Robin Nix, Sr.
Councilman Street motioned, seconded by Ms. Garner, to approve the minutes from August 14, 2014. All voted aye.
Discussion was held concerning the Little Rock Master Street Plan. Mr. Paul Hoelscher motioned, seconded by Mr. Tate, to use the Little Rock Master Street Plan’s format. All voted aye. Mr. Smith clarified that staff will take the notes the committee has given and adapt that to the Little Rock Master Street Plan’s format and bring it back to the committee. City Engineer agreed, explaining they’ve been working with the other document, but this format lends itself better with the final plan. They just want to change the 8-page document to this format for the final report. The report will be brought to the committee for approval. It was questioned how long it will take to use the new format. Mr. Light stated it’ll probably take about three weeks to get it done.
Discussion was then held regarding the Functional Classification Map. It was explained City Water & Light just upgraded their utilities in the area around Magnolia, but didn’t move any of the lines. So, if anything is done around Magnolia then money will have to be spent to move those lines. A committee member explained he spoke to some citizens in Sage Meadows and North Jonesboro and he came up with an idea to connect Hwy 49 north of the fairgrounds to North Church Street. He noted about 60% of the property is undeveloped with 35% already having right-of-ways on existing roads. He explained the idea he had was to go down Philadelphia Road off Hwy 141 north 1 mile to Rainwater Lake and then to Sage Meadows. There is an area south of Sage Meadows that is undeveloped that connects with County Road 702. County Ro...
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