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Minutes for the Master Street Plan Committee meeting on April 10, 2014
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Members present: Marvin Day, Bill Smith, Josh Brown, Ben Owens and Mike Cameron
Members absent: John Street, Ann Garner, Paul Hoelscher
Mr. Day motioned, seconded by Mr. Cameron, to approve the minutes. All voted aye.
Mr. Cameron motioned, seconded by Mr. Day, to appoint Mr. Owens as chair of the committee. All voted aye.
City Engineer Craig Light handed out the ordinance passed by Council adopting the 2009 Master Street Plan. MPO Director Dr. Marsha Guffey handed out a list of differences between the current map and the proposed map. She explained the 2009 map used MPO boundaries because the MPO was going to pay for it, but the newly proposed map will use the city limits per recommendation by Mayor Perrin. She discussed other differences in the plans and noted what is in the city limits is largely the same, but there were differences outside of the city limits due to the boundary being set at the city limits. Mr. Cameron stated the reason other cities such as Bono and Brookland were included was because the original plan was to include the whole MPO area, not just Jonesboro. Mr. Light added the plan was paid for by the City without the use of MPO funds and did utilize the MPO boundary. Dr. Guffey further discussed some of the other differences between the current and proposed map as listed on the handout (see attached). She explained the primary and secondary arterials are largely the same with some differences in the collector roads. This is due to them working off the functional map they present to the Federal Highway Administration.
Mr. Day questioned the use of Main and Union Streets as principal arterials. Dr. Guffey stated that was based on the strength of the traffic counts. Mr. Light agreed, adding that it was based on how the streets functions now per the functional classification map. Both streets are currently functioning as arterials. He noted until there is an alt...
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