Neighbors press developer, Metro staff over sight distance and flooding at Cane Ridge development

Neighbors and project representatives traded questions and assurances at a Metro community meeting about a proposed development on Cane Ridge Road, focusing on sight distance for vehicles exiting the project and on flooding the roadwork is expected to mitigate.

A resident who said she lives directly across the street from the development, identified at the meeting as Miss Hickman, told project leaders that the roadwork “is gonna help our property. It's gonna help it not to flood.” She pressed officials for a timeline and asked why the matter had taken “months and months.”

The concern about sight distance was raised by multiple neighbors. One participant described a “grade that keeps you from having a long sight distance, and that's where people are doing the fastest,”…