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Residents oppose Minor Road extension as county outlines traffic, budget and timeline
Summary
Palm Beach County engineers described a planned Minor Road extension now at 65% design that they say would redistribute traffic; nearby residents and homeowners associations said the project would harm property, safety and quality of life and called for the county to abandon or transfer the road to the City of Boynton Beach.
City Commissioner Amy Kelly (District 4) convened a community meeting Monday with Palm Beach County public‑works staff to discuss a proposed Minor Road extension and collect local feedback.
County engineer David Riggs and traffic operations manager Fadi Nasar described the project as a missing segment in the roadway network that would be built to carry up to 15,000 vehicle trips and — the county estimates — could shorten some trips by about two miles. “This is a segment that was missing from the roadway network,” Nasar said, and the extension “will carry traffic, but this is traffic being mostly distributed.” Riggs said the project is in the county’s five‑year program and currently at about “65%” design; he said the county plans another community meeting once the 65% drawings are finalized.
Residents at the meeting disputed the county’s traffic modeling and raised concerns about safety, drainage, property takings and noise.…
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