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By JAN LAVALLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Hoping for greater community involvement, the Rappahannock League For Environmental Protection held an open house to discuss village planning and traffic calming in Flint Hill the last week in May. The turnout exceeded their expectations.
Over 30 people showed up to hear about RLEP’s idea to help county villages plan for the future and the benefits of implementing traffic calming for U.S. 522 through Flint Hill.
RLEP feels everything possible needs to be done to preserve the rural character of the county’s villages and it is taking a proactive approach. With that in mind, they also think it’s important for residents to look at traffic calming and how it plays a large part in this.
"The meeting was well attended, “ said RLEP’s Kathleen Maier. “We started with background information on traffic calming, which many missed at our first meeting. We want to look at how to save Route 522 from truck traffic.”
At the meeting Don Audette, who has worked with the Route 50 Corridor Coalition in Fauquier and Loudoun counties, presented Ian Lockwood’s plan on traffic calming. Mr. Lockwood is a Canadian consultant on traffic calming and has worked on the issue in Canada, the United States and Europe.
“We recapped the whole idea,” said Ms. Maier. “There was really a huge diversity of age groups present which gave a good representation of the area. A lot of the residents live along the road (Route 522) and are concerned with the speed of trucks
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