Unionville Traffic Committee to Meet With Save the Ville Leaders

The Unionville Traffic Committee will hold a special meeting tonight to talk with Save the Ville leaders and get their suggestions on a workable solution to Unionville traffic.

The committee, charged by the Town Council with soliciting input from the public and presenting solutions to the area’s major traffic problems, has been meeting since August 2010. The council formed the committee, made up of Town Council, Unionville Village Improvement Association and Unionville Business Cooperative members and Unionville residents, in response to a survey in which residents named traffic as one of their top quality of life concerns.

The traffic committee has met numerous times with the public to gather ideas and to present plans; some have already been implemented. The largest plan, the , which would have moved the busy road up the hill a short distance, was approved by the Town Council Nov. 15, 2011. But a group of local residents calling themselves protested the plan after it was passed and gathered signatures challenging it. The council overturned its earlier decision, leaving the traffic committee to come up with a way to move ahead in solving the traffic problem without creating discord in the neighborhood.

As a start, the committee invited Save the Ville leaders to tonight’s meeting. Committee meetings have normally been held Wednesday mornings at 8 a.m.

On the agenda for tonight’s meeting is an informational discussion on Save the Ville’s concerns, possible solutions and the committee’s schedule in the future.

“We want to meet with them and hear their concerns and see how we can work this out and move forward,” said Charlie Keniston, who heads the committee.

The meeting will be held today at 7 p.m. in the Jeff Yates Community Room at the . As with all of the traffic committee’s meetings, the public is welcome to attend. A public comment period will be held at the beginning of the meeting.

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