To the Editor:
As a resident on Turkey Hill Road maybe a quarter-mile from the proposed Turkey Hill Crossing development, I and my neighbors share a unique perspective on the viability of an additional 60 bedrooms worth of people using a single ingress/egress access road, positioned directly across from the existing Turkey Hill School exit.
Here’s the undeniable truth: there couldn’t be a worse road, and a worse location, to allow the potential for children to migrate on bicycles or skateboards onto it, and to introduce 30 families’ worth of vehicle traffic. Aside from the compliance to all wetlands statutes, health codes, building codes, etc., that the developers may have met, the town of Orange needs to consider foremost the safety of the current residents, the safety of the thousands of commuters on this cut-through road, and be forward-thinking enough to consider the safety of the children (who will no doubt make their way out to this road from their contained development) and families who will be using this single access point.
In the absence of a commitment from the town to completely upgrade the road and create a regulated intersection (stop sign minimum; stop light at the extreme, plus widening), this is a disaster waiting to happen and there will be problems, beyond the reduction in property values of the adjacent residents.
Ted Bordeleau
Orange
I agree with everything you have stated.