Oconee County Comprehensive Stakeholders Committee To Get Report On Transportation and Infrastructure

The Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee working on the Oconee County Comprehensive Plan update will have a chance Tuesday night to summarize its conclusions from a two-hour meeting it held late last month.

At the end of that wide-ranging discussion, Justin Crighton said the citizens had agreed that the county “needs to find a way to move truck traffic through the county without sending it downtown.”

The Subcommittee also agreed that the county needs “to be able to strike a balance between the economic development benefits of moving goods through the county and protecting the character of cities and protecting citizens’ lives,” Crighton said.

Crighton, a planner with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, is facilitating the Comprehensive Plan update, and he offered few other hints about the report he’ll prepare on behalf of the Subcommittee for the full Joint Comprehensive Plan Stakeholders Committee

That larger group is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night at the Community Center in Oconee Veterans Park to hear Crighton’s summary of the May 25 Subcommittee meeting and continue its deliberations on the 2018 Comprehensive Plan.

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Pictured: Subcommittee meeting of May 25.