Free Oak Avenue
(from speeders)
There are a lot of times in local government when a group of citizens gets up before a board of elected officials and says, “If you had to approve this today, you wouldn’t.”

So, Oak Avenue residents were right to remind the board of aldermen Tuesday that they wouldn’t allow a developer to build a 21-foot wide road (17 feet, not counting the curbs and gutters) with no sidewalks if the traffic count was upwards of 1,000 trips a day.

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