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Minutes for the MAPC meeting on November 14, 2006.
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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Minutes, November 14, 2006
Commissioners absent: Krennerich, Harpole
Staff present: Spriggs, White, Rook
Approval of minutes from the October 10, 2006, meeting. Motion was made by Mr. Day, seconded by Mr. Roberts. Minutes were approved by unanimous vote.
1. S.W. Transportation Study, June, 2006, Findings.
Mr. Spriggs reported to MAPC that the plan is being forwarded to them for final endorsement of the study to be passed on to City Council. Mr. Cameron will introduce the presenter.
Mr. Cameron came forward to state that they were the lead engineering firm on this transportation study. Carter Burgess and Peters and Associates are here to present this information. A traffic study is a general plan in trying to achieve your transportation goals. The next phase would be a thoroughfare plan. The land use plan that is being worked on would tie into a transportation plan. The City Council is looking into a capital improvement plan. The final step would be to find out which are the most needed streets. A lot of the information that you will see is 18 months old. Mr. James Arbuckle will be telling you what the traffic study tells us. One of the particular reasons that this study was requested was when the mall was going to be out on Southwest Drive.
Mr. Arbuckle came forward to discuss the study. The goals of this study was trigged in anticipation of future growth in south west Jonesboro. We also looked at current operations on current city streets. We also looked at a broad look at the thoroughfare plan where we could see gaps and where there might be east-west and north-south streets needed. The study area was basically bounded to the north by Nettleton, south was Lawson, to the east, Stadium and to the west Kellers Chapel and Woodsprings. They looked at existing demographics and network conditions. They gathered traffic counts and looke...
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