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County upholds denial of traffic-impact analysis for proposed Hwy 73 commercial center
Summary
Lincoln County commissioners upheld a staff denial of a traffic-impact analysis for a proposed retail center at Highway 73 and Little Egypt Road after staff and residents said the study failed to meet county level-of-service standards; the applicant presented road-improvement plans that staff said were insufficient under the UDO.
Lincoln County commissioners on a May meeting upheld the Development Services director’s technical denial of a traffic-impact analysis (TIA) submitted by EJG Ventures for a proposed retail center at the southwestern corner of Highway 73 and Little Egypt Road.
Andrew Bryant, Lincoln County’s director of development services, told the board the submitted TIA did not meet the county Unified Development Ordinance’s level-of-service standards and therefore could not be accepted. “The traffic impact analysis was not compliant,” Bryant said, adding that the proposed mitigation — dual southbound left-turn lanes and related restriping — improved operations but did not restore the intersection to the no-build level-of-service required by the…
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