Mars Hill Road Widening Project On Schedule, Citizens Told

Construction of Phase I of the Mars Hill Road/Experiment Station Road project is on schedule, and county leaders are hopeful that construction on Phase II will begin as work on Phase I is completed at the end of May of next year.

Oconee County Public Works Director Emil Beshara gave that report to the Citizen Advisory Committee for Land Use and Transportation Planning last week.

Beshara, responding to questions from the Committee, labeled a connector between SR 15 and U.S. 441 in the south of the county as the “number one need for a road that doesn’t exist today.”

The Land Use Committee also got a brief summary of the work of the citizen Stakeholders Committee working on the revision of the county’s Comprehensive Plan from citizens who sit on both committees.

Tommy Malcom highlighted what he expects will be a recommendation in the Comprehensive Plan that development be spread around the county rather than concentrated along the Epps Bridge Parkway corridor.

For more on the story, with a complete video of the Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Beshara at the Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee meeting.