Newberry Road development causing dangerous levels of traffic, diminishing quality of life

Construction crews continue work on several apartment buildings being built off SW 17th Road and Tower Road near the attached to the Grand Oaks Subdivision in Gainesville, Fla. October 1, 2021. — Development crews proceed get the job done on many apartment properties remaining designed off SW 17th Street and Tower Road close to the hooked up to the Grand Oaks Subdivision in Gainesville, Fla. Oct 1, 2021.

Gainesville and Alachua County inhabitants be aware: Continuing enhancement alongside Newberry Street amongst Interstate 75 and 143rd Avenue in Jonesville continues to maximize website traffic to unsafe ranges, destroying homes of native wildlife that live in wooded locations that are getting demolished to establish more and more multi-tale condominium complexes and businesses.

This continuing advancement not only diminishes the quality of lifestyle for people adjacent to spots currently being razed it also impacts all people who travels on Newberry Street. Traffic alongside Newberry Highway has attained a vital position. Sufficient is sufficient! Remember to join us in urging the Alachua County Progress Management office and Alachua County commissioners to take into consideration the subsequent prior to any extra growth designs are authorized on Newberry Road:

How can Newberry Street probably cope with the addition of hundreds of additional autos from apartment inhabitants and small business clients when it already is dangerously congested? It is pretty much extremely hard and progressively unsafe in the course of selected times of the day to exit neighborhoods. We urge you to perform a visitors analyze of this section of Newberry Road right before any further enhancement designs are deemed.

Construction continues at the Nobel on Newberry apartment complex, on the corner of West Newberry Road and SW 122nd Street, west of Gainesville. — Design carries on at the Nobel on Newberry apartment complex, on the corner of West Newberry Highway and SW 122nd Street, west of Gainesville.

Take into consideration how the excellent of daily life of the inhabitants adjacent to these advancement ideas will be affected. Not only will it be much more risky and hard to exit our neighborhoods, but our quality of lifestyle will be greatly diminished due to sound and mild air pollution from four-story apartment buildings a mere 50 ft from present properties in some instances.

Consider the background of Alachua County and how you can make a variation in its potential. Gainesville was at the time touted as a Tree Town. Quite a few of us moved listed here from other states mainly because we believed that Alachua County valued organic habitats for animals and a excellent excellent of existence for its citizens. Make sure you, we question you to carefully take into consideration these designs so that our record of retaining our pure attractiveness and consequently, high-quality of existence for our animal and human residents, may possibly be preserved and continue into the long run.

I urge you to stop by the websites of these more development ideas prior to you make your choices which have an affect on so numerous people who depend on you to signify us. Please safeguard our neighborhoods, our high quality of daily life and our indigenous animals that live peacefully amongst us.

Construction equipment at the site of the soon to be Mason Apartments off NW 20th Ave. in Gainesville, March 10, 2022. — Development machines at the web page of the soon to be Mason Flats off NW 20th Ave. in Gainesville, March 10, 2022.

I urge all Gainesville and Alachua County residents to get involved. If you are troubled by the destruction of woods, increasing targeted visitors accidents together Newberry Highway and diminished high-quality of life, create to our county commissioners and voice your views.

They are elected by us and are obligated to hear to our fears and make choices appropriately. Their tackle is: 10 SW 2nd Avenue Gainesville, FL 32601. The Alachua County Progress Management section can also be arrived at by mail to the same address.

Mary Jo Banken life west of Gainesville.

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This posting originally appeared on The Gainesville Solar: Mary Jo Banken: Newberry Highway overwhelmed because of to growth