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Winfield Ridge residents press council to require fire gate as developer resists
Summary
Residents of Winfield Ridge told the Newcastle City Council on April 1 that a fire gate is the only effective mitigation for a proposed through street; city staff say they have met the developer but have not reached agreement and emphasized a hearing-examiner-required traffic monitoring plan.
Residents of the Winfield Ridge and White Hawk neighborhoods urged the Newcastle City Council on April 1 to require a fire gate on a proposed through street tied to a new housing development, saying the gate is the only practical measure to prevent cut-through speeding that would endanger children.
The request matters because the council faces a choice between requiring a gate now or enforcing a longer traffic-monitoring plan required by the hearing examiner. City Manager Pingle told the council staff met with the developer but have not yet reached agreement on whether the developer will accept a gate as a condition.
Sarah Goodman, a Winfield Ridge resident, said the gate is essential to keep her neighborhood safe and to prevent the quiet dead-end street she described from becoming a shortcut to I-405. “The requirement of a fire gate as a…
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