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Posted: Jan 15th, 2006 04:43 am |
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I propose a local boycott the big a gas station and keep our support going to the three current stations in Town. I know this wont hurt their business but it will support the stations already here. Thepanther is running out of habitat space I have already helped a family of misplaced rabbits find a new home and with the flood of development to come I expect to have to go into Stokes County to find a place to roam. I have also heard Macdonalds is comming to Oak Ridge.
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2006 01:40 pm |
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I don't know that has as much to do with politics as it does free enterprise. They could have asked $10 million for the property and if somebody was willing to pay it, then it would sell.
There is that piece of property in Oak Ridge at the corner of 150 and Linville Rd. that I heard they are asking something like $900,000 for a little over 3 acres (across from the fire chief's eyesore that people keep asking about in the NWO). I can't believe they're asking that or that anybody would be stupid enough to pay it, but we'll see....
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macca
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2006 01:50 pm |
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| I also heard that the Shields family originally bought that property (at the corner of Haw River and 68) as part of the effort to block the landfill expansion. Then it worked out that they were able to sell it for a good profit.... I agree w/zippy...Look around, isn't that what's going on all over this area? (Not that I'm in favor of developing every inch that can be, but .... )
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2006 01:55 pm |
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Good morning, macca.
What do you mean they bought that property to block the landfill expansion? That property's not beside the landfill.
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macca
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2006 02:03 pm |
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| Ok, I heard this second or third hand... but it had something to do with the intersection. The company needed/wanted a wider intersection for its trucks, so someone in the Shields family bought this property so the company couldn't....
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Posted: Jan 19th, 2006 02:50 pm |
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| Taco Bell anyone? Then we could eat great ,even late, as we run to the border(of Stokesdale/OR). What if someone was hit in the head with a golf ball while pumping gas and eating a taco? Who would you sue, the town for allowing the gas station/ rest., the golf course for the 9th hole going toward the road,the owners of gas station for building close to the course, the golf equipment manufactures, or your auto manufacture for not building a more economical large suv so you could go to a cheper gas station. Last edited on Jan 19th, 2006 02:56 pm by ff12
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Posted: Jan 19th, 2006 04:47 pm |
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macca wrote: Ok, I heard this second or third hand... but it had something to do with the intersection. The company needed/wanted a wider intersection for its trucks, so someone in the Shields family bought this property so the company couldn't....
I would doubt this as fact. The NC DOT is tasked with insuring the road system works for the traffic. If the intersection needs improvement, DOT would condemn the land if the owner won't sell.
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macca
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Posted: Jan 19th, 2006 04:59 pm |
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| Onthefence, It wasn't that DOT wanted to make the changes, it was that the trash company did.... In order to have larger trucks in and out, needed wider turning lane(?).... Anyway, that's just what I heard...
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Posted: Jan 19th, 2006 06:35 pm |
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Macca: I wasn’t casting suspicion on your veracity. Just that I doubt the property owners at the corner could block construction of a larger roadway if the DOT was convinced of its need.
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Posted: Mar 4th, 2006 12:15 pm |
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It seems like someone would consider widening 68 before developing it up this way! That road is a total mess at "rush hour" each day. Morning & evening traffic on 68 from where it narrows at the "Hole in the Wall" restaurant to Stokesdale is typically bumper to bumper! Does anyone know of any plans to widen that section?
It seems the town of Oak Ridge would be trying to get that done before development gets too far! If one were to take a step back and look at the area where the shopping center is, near the military academy, it would seem nearly impossible to widen it now without disrupting the land owned by the academy.
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2006 01:24 am |
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Great idea DToney......widening a road.
If you have lived here all your life, you might like to know that they had a public meeting back in the 50's to let us all know they were going to be widening 220 N and how it was going to be so great!
Well it might be done in the next 10 years......might live to see it 
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DToney
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2006 01:49 pm |
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Bubba wrote: Great idea DToney......widening a road.
If you have lived here all your life, you might like to know that they had a public meeting back in the 50's to let us all know they were going to be widening 220 N and how it was going to be so great!
Well it might be done in the next 10 years......might live to see it
Dang, Bubba! You don't mean it! 
Actually I recently moved here from SC and was not aware of that.... 68 & 220 are both overdue.... 
With the heavy growth in this area I'm afraid this is just the beginning...... our schools are overcrowded as well as our roads.... but no one is doing anything about it....
any body listening? 
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2006 11:01 pm |
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DToney wrote: With the heavy growth in this area I'm afraid this is just the beginning...... our schools are overcrowded as well as our roads.... but no one is doing anything about it....
any body listening?
Are you referring to the schools? or the roads?
There is a whole forum dedicated to NW area schools.
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Posted: Mar 6th, 2006 12:08 am |
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DToney wrote: It seems like someone would consider widening 68 before developing it up this way! That road is a total mess at "rush hour" each day. Morning & evening traffic on 68 from where it narrows at the "Hole in the Wall" restaurant to Stokesdale is typically bumper to bumper! Does anyone know of any plans to widen that section?
I'm not sure that the DOT plans to do a whole lot to Highway 68 since they have plans to build the 220-68 connector (which somewhere along the way became I-73) at some point in the future. Doing that is supposed to take a good portion of the through traffic off the road and leave primarily local traffic. Of course, by the time they get around to getting that done, the local traffic may be built up to the point that something will have to be done to 68.
They will be widening 220 through Summerfield, but I recently heard that project has been pushed back to 2012.
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DToney
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Posted: Mar 6th, 2006 12:30 am |
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so that means we will all be victims of "urban sprawl" and lack of good planning...
oh, well... just hope they don't outlaw cell phones, at least I can call my child while stuck in traffic!
I also heard it would be a long time before anyone gets to actually ride on "Future Corridor 73"
Why keep postponing the road construction? We need a fix now!
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