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Developer and neighbors clash over traffic, buffers for 280-area project
Summary
Developer Keith Owens updated the council on the 280 project and said traffic studies show summer counts exceeded school-period counts; residents from nearby neighborhoods urged closing an exit and adding traffic controls and buffering to address safety and volume concerns.
Developer Keith Owens and neighborhood residents on May 20 used the Hoover City Council meeting to update the council on the proposed 280-area commercial project and to press the developer and city for traffic and safety changes.
Owens, who identified himself as the developer of the “280 project,” thanked council members who attended a recent public forum and said the development team had met with residents and shared plans to address concerns. Owens told the council that school-period traffic counts already had been conducted and that, in the developer’s analysis, “the summer counts were more busier…
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