Clemmons transportation draft targets corridors, schedules public open house and November adoption

Village staff and consultants on Monday updated the Village of Clemmons Board of Commissioners on a draft master transportation plan that lays out a long-range vision for roads, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, transit and freight connections.

Nat Haywood of Kimley‑Horn summarized the plan’s purpose and schedule, saying the draft is available for review and that staff will host a public open house from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20 at the library. The council was told the goal is to return to the board on Monday, Nov. 24 for plan adoption after a planning board hearing on Oct. 21.

Haywood described the plan as a “vision” document rather than a construction manual: it documents existing conditions, summarizes public engagement and recommends prioritized projects and policies. The draft breaks recommendations into multimodal networks and identifies three “catalytic corridors” for further development — Springfield Farm, Harper Road and Route 158 — with illustrative cross-sections, cost notes and constraints for each corridor.

The plan’s prioritization ranks projects into tiers using weighted criteria drawn from data and public input; staff said the highest-priority projects appear in the top tier shown in the draft. Consultants also proposed eight high-level policies covering neighborhood connectivity, roadway safety (including alignment with the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All work), congestion management, safe school access, regional connectivity, development-code updates and sustainability-oriented transportation improvements.

Councilman (name not specified) reported that the Winston‑Salem Area Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) met Sept. 25 and unanimously approved two regional items: an update to the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan and the 2026–2035 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The council member reported those regional plans include roughly 20 projects earmarked for Clemmons — primarily upgrades and modernization of existing roads and intersections — and that most funding cited at the TAC meeting comes from state and federal sources. The TAC report cited about $4.6 billion in state and federal funding compared with about $13.6 million in county and municipal funding for the region’s plan, figures reported to council from the TAC briefing.

Council members and staff said the village will solicit public feedback during the October open house and that consultants will use comments to refine the draft before a November adoption vote. No formal council action on the transportation plan occurred at the Sept. 22 meeting.