Dear Editor,
I live on Berryhill Road between Stewart Street and Dogwood. I keep seeing all the opinions of the people who believe this is the best route for all of the traffic. Have these people forgotten the road on both sides has historic homes fully restored and registered with the historical society? People live in these homes. People speak about hanging onto the historic buildings along Highway 90. With the exception of the Imogene, how many of those buildings are restored much less in use?
The people in Lakewood Manor Estates, (yes, that stretch of Berryhill was once a real subdivision), have already had to deal with people speeding up and down the road for many years, completely oblivious to our kids who get onto school buses and the older people of the neighborhood who are terrified to drive out of their driveways for fear of becoming traffic casualties. They want to widen the road and route semi-trucks and all the traffic our way? If that’s the best plan they can come up with the planners in the state and county need to go back to the drawing board.
If they vote this route as the BEST route to take in alleviating traffic off Highway 90, I sincerely hope they are ready to buy us all out. I for one will not be living in this town. I will not support a town intent on saving crumbling, empty buildings and running out tax paying citizens.
Cynthia Licharowicz
Milton
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Berryhill Road not the best route for Highway 90