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County, SHA reviewed traffic study for Beatty master plan; mitigation tied to corporate‑park phase
Summary
Traffic consultant told the BZA the January 2025 traffic impact study and mitigation were reviewed and accepted by Carroll County and the State Highway Administration; the study modeled a conservative (no‑connection) scenario and included an appendix analyzing the Georgetown connection.
The traffic impact study for the greater Beatty master plan — which includes the proposed Reservoir Run retirement village — was prepared by Traffic Concepts and updated as recently as January 2025. Consultant Jackie Plott told the Board the study was scoped with county staff and the State Highway Administration, covered 16 intersections and included background development and growth factors.
Plott said the primary analysis assumed the Georgetown extension would stop at the project boundary (a conservative, worst‑case assumption) and that mitigation offered by the developer covers the whole Beatty project. “The traffic impact study was prepared without all, you know, the total connection. This developer is building the Georgetown extension to the property line, but our study assumed that it would stop there and not continue through as a connection,” Plott testified. She added the county and SHA reviewed the study and the mitigation proffers as part of standard agency review.
Neighbors and some board members pushed back, saying intersection‑level analyses do not capture narrow neighborhood links, school‑bus stops, and prior EMS access issues on Longmeadow and Rolling View. Plott said link‑level ADT counts for Longmeadow are low (existing ~400 ADT projected into the 600–700 ADT range) and that county fire/EMS review and site‑plan checks are part of the remaining approvals process.
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