CLNCC - Summer Development-Related Community Meetings Schedule

Reminder of the CLNCC May 30th Traffic Impact Workshop: 10:15AM tomorrow at the Bear Library!

Important WILMAPCO meetings scheduled for June:

Glasgow Avenue Planning Study - Community Meeting

SR 141 Transportation and Land Use Plan - Public Information Session
  
Delmarva Freight Summit
  
Fourth Street Walkable Community Workshop

Plus, from the NCC Department of Land Use -

Save the Date for the New Castle County Unified Development Code (UDC) Workshop!

The NCC Land Use Department will host the 2^nd UDC Public Workshop on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm at the Christiana Fire Hall!!

We hope you will mark your calendar to attend! We will be providing an update briefing regarding actions taken since the 1^st workshop which was held on March 26, 2015. 

Information regarding the UDC update project can be found at:  http://www.nccde.org/1067/UDC-Revisions The exact location and address for the site will be forthcoming until then, please save the date and refer back to our UDC project web site.

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Public Meeting - Claymont Steel Redevelopment - Set For 7PM Wednesday At The Crowne Plaza

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Claymont Public Meeting - Claymont Steel Redevelopment

Claymont Public Meeting Wednesday

There is a serious proposal on the table to redevelop the 425 acre Claymont Steel site. Join the CRDC and your elected officials to see the plans and a short video presentation of what this area of North Claymont could become and the project's potential to become the largest job creator the State of Delaware has seen for a while.

May 20th, 7:00 p.m.
Crowne Plaza (630 Naamans Road)

Representatives of Commercial Development Corporation of St. Louis, MO will be present to take questions from those who attend. We welcome non-Claymont residents to this public meeting because the effects of this project could be felt well beyond Claymont's borders.

For more information see:  Claymont Renaissance Development Corporation

NCC Land Use Department: 2nd UDC Public Workshop Set For Wednesday, June 24th From 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Save the Date for the New Castle County (NCC) Unified Development Code (UDC) Workshop!

The NCC Land Use Department will host the 2^nd UDC Public Workshop on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm!!

We hope you will mark your calendar to attend! We will be providing an update briefing regarding actions taken since the 1^st workshop which was held on March 26, 2015. 

Information regarding the UDC update project can be found at:  http://www.nccde.org/1067/UDC-Revisions The exact location and address for the site will be forthcoming until then, please save the date and refer back to our UDC project web site.

Saturday Morning CLNCC Workshop - Brainstorming On Traffic Impact - 10:15AM - 1PM May 30th In Bear

CLNCC Workshop - Brainstorming On Traffic Impact

A BRAINSTORMING SESSION: 

. . . . . . . . . (A Panel Discussion with Attendee Participation) 

CAN WE IMPROVE REGULATORY PRACTICES FOR DEALING WITH TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IMPACTS WHILE REGULATING LAND USE INTENSIFICATIONS?

Sponsor: . . . CIVIC LEAGUE for NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Where: . . . . The BEAR Library, Meeting Room #2

. . . . . . .. . . . Corner of Routes 7 and 40

. . . . . . . . . . 101 Governor's Place, Bear DE 19701

When: . . . . .Saturday May 30, 2015 10:15am - 1pm

Panelists: 

Professionals . . . . .  Dan Blevins (WILMAPCO)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Troy Brestel (DelDOT)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill Brockenbrough (DelDOT)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jerry Heisler (Reybold)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Janowski (retired NCC Land Use)

Amateur . . . . . . . . . Vic Singer (Civic League for NCC)

Brainstorming pinpoints diverse ideas that can fit with one another usefully. It aims at producing a total bigger than the sum of the pieces - - more than any individual participant can achieve by himself. Like solving jig saw puzzles, some ideas need to be turned to find a useful fit and other ideas fit over there rather than right here. This brainstorming session will start with introductory brief remarks about the focal point and some potentially useful facts.

The Civic League for New Castle County is very pleased to host this event and hope for a robust civic and development industry turnout.

This is an exciting opportunity to come and participate in a discussion with transportation professionals from DelDOT and Wilmapco plus representatives from the development industry and the civic arena to hash out what is what with traffic in our county and where we go from here! 

Harmony Road Improvements Workshop Set For 4:30-7:30PM Tomorrow

DelDOT Harmony Road Improvements Workshop notice

Monday May 11, 2015 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces a public workshop for proposed improvements to the SR 273 and Harmony Road intersection. The workshop will be held on Monday, May 11 at the Gallaher Elementary School at 800 N. Brownleaf Road, Newark. The public is invited to attend any time between 4:30 pm and 7:30 pm. The purpose of this project is to improve the safety and operational function of the SR 273 corridor in the vicinity of Harmony Road and the I-95 Interchange, including the weave condition along the I-95 southbound off-ramp onto SR 273. A variety of alternatives of varying scope will be presented for public comment.

This location is accessible to persons having disabilities. Any person having special needs or requiring special aid, such as an interpreter for the hearing impaired, is requested to contact DelDOT by phone or mail one week in advance.

Interested persons are invited to express their views in writing, giving reasons for support of or in opposition to, the proposed project. Comments will be received during the workshop or can be mailed to DelDOT Public Relations, P.O. Box 778, Dover, DE 19903. When applicable, we offer the opportunity to fill out a questionnaire online which will automatically get emailed to Public Relations. For further information contact Public Relations at 1-800-652-5600 (in DE) or 302-760-2080 or write to the above address.

And more from (News Journal) robin brown ~ DelDOT tackles Ogletown traffic hazards

State transportation officials have set a Monday public workshop as they start to tackle a major road hazard in Ogletown, with 12 plans and some extreme ideas for solutions. Some of those ideas would dramatically alter the area, even eliminate some homes and businesses. Depending on how massive the final plan is, the project could cost tens of millions of dollars and take six years or more to finish. Like the problems, the plans focus on the Del. 273-Harmony Road intersection, but reach out into the surrounding area that covers thousands of homes and more than 450 businesses. “We’re hoping to get a large crowd at the workshop,” DelDOT spokesman Bud Freel said. The drop-in style workshop is 4:30-7:30 p.m. at Gallaher Elementary School, 800 N. Brownleaf Road, with overview presentations at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.

........Harmony Road has become heavily used by commuters to Christiana Hospital and the Kirkwood Highway (Del.2), complicated by southbound I-95 off-ramp’s location snug to the Del. 273-Harmony Road intersection. “When it was designed, it met the needs of the area,” Vincent said. Now, he said, it’s a highcrash zone of heavy-volume, cross-merging traffic, identified as so dangerous a spot, improvements to reduce hazards there qualify for 90 percent federal funding instead of the normal 80 percent. In a distance of just 475 feet before the intersection, substantial traffic merges left from I-95’s exit ramp in a lane that becomes right-turn only for Harmony Road. At the same time, much of the heavy traffic along Del. 273 merges right to turn onto Harmony Road. There were 175 crashes at the intersection between 2011-14, with 31 involving injuries, DelDOT engineer Joseph A. Hofstee said. Most were rearenders and side-swipes, he said.

DelDOT’s traffic study found that, in the morning when traffic peaks at about 1,425 vehicles per hour, more than 70 percent of the traffic taking Harmony Road from Del. 273 is going to Christiana Hospital, along Ogletown-Stanton Road (Del. 4) or to Kirkwood Highway, Hofstee said. The broader area of the project includes the I-95 off-ramp’s crash-prone split for east and westbound Del. 273 and covers I-95’s entire Del. 273 interchange, running east of Chestnut Hill/Ogletown-Stanton Road (Del.4), the DelDOT officials said. Some of the most dramatic options in the plans are:

­ Eliminating right turns onto Harmony Road, making the road one-way or closing it at Del. 273,

­ Totally rebuilding I-95’s Del. 273 interchange or adding lights to slow westbound traffic from the Christiana area,

­ Creating a new I-95 exit that would tie into the dead end of Samoset Drive between the Bank of America and Christiana Hospital sites,

­ Widening Del. 273, which would require DelDOT to buy properties abutting the road in the densely populated area.

DelDOT, having recognized the area’s problems for many years, has made changes aimed to ease traffic, even testing closure of Harmony Road. In 2001, to slow traffic on Harmony Road, islands and other trafficcalming devices were added, which officials say reduced vehicles’ speed 17 percent. DelDOT also installed red-light cameras on Del. 273, cutting crashes with cars running red lights, and lengthened the stacking lane for left turns from westbound Del. 273 to South Gerald Drive opposite Harmony Road, pulling more of that traffic out of the cross-merge area earlier. Last year, DelDOT added a concrete median on Harmony Road, reducing cut-across traffic of motorists on northbound Harmony Road to a gas station on the southbound side, also reducing crashes and back-ups of traffic turning onto Harmony Road.

Community Forum on the TPP/Fast Track Set For 7PM March 18th At Kirkwood Public lLibrary

Delaware Americans for Democratic Action

Community Forum on the TPP/Fast Track

Monday, May 18th at 7pm

Kirkwood Library 

(6000 Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, DE 19808)

There has been increasing public interest in Delaware on the issue of Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

At this community forum, Delawareans can learn more about this issue, share their thoughts and questions, and learn what they can do about it.

County Executive Thomas Gordon will open the forum.

We also have a panel discussion, represented by faith, labor, and good government groups.

Co-sponsors include: Delaware Coalition for Open Government (DelCOG), Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) of Delaware, and Pacem in Terris

To RSVP just click here or email Drew Serres at Drew@DelawareADA.org 

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Drew Serres

Delaware Americans for Democratic Action 

Mobile: 503-507-9135 

Email: drew@delawareada.org 

Website: delawareada.org/