Part of reason we delayed having this meeting for three years is that the city went through a learning process on traffic calming issues.
By making access through the downtown area easier for local traffic, it will hopefully limit the need to excessively widen the interstate when that point comes.
Doug was merely trying to perform his duties as the city planner.
You have a center city surrounded by less dense communities. That's the place people go for employment, for major shopping. That's very likely going to continue.
The whole range of people that you would logically want involved in any development project are at the table on this, because both the city and Main Street Concord feel so strongly about this important issue.
The way I manage this department is to be fair and equitable to all of our customer base.
The broad objective is to create a more vibrant downtown.
That was probably the big learning curve for the city of Concord on traffic calming.
