Greenville Area Developments (coupon, apartments, hotel)

[hollabackmjjd]

Originally Posted by bikepedguy

Lots of prefab sewer lines and construction equipment sitting on the property adjacent to Arlington Crossing shopping plaza. 'Happy Trail Farms LLC' ownership -- believe this was rezoned to medical-residential (multi-family), and medical-commercial in April 2018, so expect for this to be apartment-style housing and/or duplex with medical offices and some shopping along the main thoroughfare.

I heard a traffic light will also be installed there, and a source told me that Harris Teeter was coming there but I'm not sure about that. Lol.

[bikepedguy]

From the city council minutes, it doesn't look like there will be a light (and it wouldn't be a good location for a light, would only cause further queueing at Arlington/Dickinson), but the traffic analysis had yet to be performed.

They did mention connecting through to Spring Forest Road via a stub at Gabriel Drive to give road users a connection south to Dickinson Avenue. This could improve connectivity and potentially decrease congestion in the area, but they're going to need to convert Spring Forest into a commercial road, rather than the unmarked, unsigned residential street as it currently operates.

[michealbond]

City breaks ground on new beach volleyball courts.

https://www.greenvillenc.gov/Home/Co...ews/News/1636/

Once completed, the city can potentially start hosting beach volleyball tournaments.

[bikepedguy]

Planning and zoning commission approves four rezoning requests

1. 4.122 acres near Lake Ellsworth Drive to allow for duplex development. Having lived in this exact neighborhood for a couple of years, the parcels are going to be developed into some nice duplex-style housing that caters to medical students and young families.

2. 2.5 acres on Sara Lane off Evans Street to allow for high-density multi-family. Looks like the developer intends to expand pre-existing apartments. Wish the city would required stub-out roads and interconnectivity, because there's three apartment complexes in quick succession in this area and all have driveways onto Evans (driveways always increase congestion and are a target of access management projects).

3. .18 acres on Laurel Ridge Drive to single-family residential. This appears to be correcting an error by an engineer.

4. 2.2 acres on Charles Blvd. to office-residential (high-density, multi-family). Looks like Tara Apartments and/or The Landing II.

The article also makes note of a recorded plat for Farrington Trace on Firetower Road, on the parcels that were the subject of a debate around this time last year. Appears to be the preliminary stages of a new subdivision:

The development will have 774 linear feet of streets. Sidewalks will be built on one side of all streets. There also will be a detention pond for stormwater containment...The main entrance off Fire Tower Road will be right turn only in and out of the development under the road’s current configuration and when it is widened to a four-lane highway, Fagundus said. Engineers consulted with Greenville Fire-Rescue and flexible delineators rods will be used to prevent vehicles from making left turns off Fire Tower Road

Firetower Road medianization can't come soon enough.

[jpirate]

Well Played Games is moving into the Pizza Inn building. It should be interesting to see what they do with that space.

[Richard Martin]

Originally Posted by bikepedguy

Firetower Road medianization can't come soon enough.

It only a couple/few years off. You'll still get stuck behind 2 cars driving side by side at 10 MPH under the speed limit. That drives me nuts especially since there is a law that says that you're supposed to drive as close to the right side as is reasonable on multilane roads.

[bikepedguy]

This may or may not come as a surprise -- I have no issue with cars driving under the speed limit, though it is annoying. Speed differential is the cause of accidents, but the slower one drives, the lower the likelihood of fatality in a collision.



Edit: this graph was unclear. Units are km/h, so this means that a pedestrian has a 10% risk of death when hit by a car going ~19mph, a person in a vehicle has a 10% risk of death when in a side-impact collision at ~31mph and a 10% risk of death when in a head-on collision at ~40mph (head-on collision technology having improved odds). A side impact collision at 40mph would then have an ~70% likelihood of fatality.

NACTO and Streetsblog have a similar graph, but of fatality probability for accidents at a given speed for different age groups.

Given Firetower's traffic volume (and expected increase), a neighborhood such as the one above with no median limiting left turn access onto Firetower will cause havoc with traffic as people try to turn left into queueing traffic at the Firetower/Charles light. Until the bidirectional turn lane is eliminated in this city, access management on our roads is exceptionally critical -- and why you've seen Public Works installing bollards everywhere they can.

[Richard Martin]

Originally Posted by bikepedguy

Given Firetower's traffic volume (and expected increase), a neighborhood such as the one above with no median limiting left turn access onto Firetower will cause havoc with traffic as people try to turn left into queueing traffic at the Firetower/Charles light.

Soon there will be no left turns from any direction at the Firetower/Charles intersection or the Firetower/Arlington intersection. What the state is going to do will freak people out big time.

[bikepedguy]

Anyone attend the parking meeting last night? The WNCT news story was subpar.

[GarnetAndBlack]

Originally Posted by bikepedguy

Anyone attend the parking meeting last night? The WNCT news story was subpar.

Reflector.com has a pretty detailed article up now