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Planning commission presses for clearer traffic mitigation, schedule on Mountain Brook development
Summary
The Taneytown Planning Commission heard an update on the Mountain Brook development and related traffic analysis, and staff and the city attorney urged commissioners to review a draft developers' rights and responsibilities agreement before the commission’s formal review.
The Taneytown Planning Commission heard an update on the Mountain Brook development and related traffic analysis, and staff and the city attorney urged commissioners to review a draft developers' rights and responsibilities agreement before the commission’s formal review.
Planning staff said they had received a comment letter from the State Highway Administration asking the town to wait for state consensus on access to routes 140 and 194 and recommending further traffic analysis, including queuing analysis for the site accesses and the intersection around the square. Staff said they asked CDM Smith, the city’s consultant engineer, to review the submitted traffic study because the town lacks in-house transportation engineering expertise.
City attorney Jay said the developers provided a draft developers’ rights and responsibilities…
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