High Point Enterprise reports ‘heated disagreements on display’ during the Comprehensive Planning Committee’s discussion of Andres Duany’s master plan to revitalize HP:
The top priority in the study is to “road diet” a portion of N. Main Street through Uptowne High Point into one lane of traffic in each direction.
…The project obviously can’t be done without the city authorizing it and likely making considerable public investment.
…During the committee’s discussion, Mayor Bernita Sims made a motion to move the proposed hiring of a consultant to perform the study to the council’s agenda with a favorable recommendation.
The motion failed when only council members Jeff Golden and Jay Wagner supported it. Council members Jim Davis, Jason Ewing, Britt Moore and Becky Smothers opposed it. (Council members Foster Douglas and Judy Mendenhall were absent.)…“I don’t think the citizens are buying into dieting Main Street. Some of the other things on this list, they have interest in,” Davis said. “Based on conversations with (city staff), I don’t think its practical, so I, for one, do not support spending $115,000 on another study.”
Good to see there’s some serious discussion about an expensive and unpractical solution to HP’s lack of vitality. Meanwhile let’s hope the most practical solution —Duany’s ‘pink code’—- gets more attention.
