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Silver Hill mayor warns proposed early learning center would push hundreds of cars onto town streets
Summary
At the April 21 Baldwin County Public Schools meeting, Silver Hill Mayor Lyle told the board no traffic study had been done for the proposed early learning center site and argued on-site queuing would be insufficient — he estimated roughly 500 daily parent drop-offs with only 64 on-site queuing spaces, potentially pushing about 436 cars onto local streets and creating emergency-access risks.
At the April 21 Baldwin County Public Schools board meeting, Silver Hill Mayor Lyle told trustees the district’s proposed early learning center site lacks a traffic plan and warned it would force hundreds of parent drop-off vehicles onto the town’s narrow streets.
Mayor Lyle said he repeatedly asked for the site traffic study after the board’s prior meeting and — after weeks of requests — was told by the project architect that no traffic study had been completed. Using a working enrollment estimate of 600 students (he said he had heard…
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