Jul
9
Project Derenne Stumbles
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From WSAV-TV:
Project Derenne is supposed to be different. “Number one,” says Kinstler, “it is supposed to be about what to do about the entire corridor, enhance the livability of the corridor not to just widen it gratuitously for traffic.” The idea is to view the road, the homes, the businesses and the people as one organism realizing that changes to one part will affect all the others.
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Jul
7
PSN, neighborhoods to protest GDOT’s Abercorn Street turn lane on July 8
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On Tuesday, July 8 at 10 a.m., Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods and members of the Kensington and Groveland neighborhood associations are staging a one hour protest of the Georgia Department of Transportation adding a turn lane (at the City of Savannah’s request) at the southeast corner of Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue.
A number of mature pine trees have already been removed from the side yard of a home zoned single-family residential. Scheduled to be done soon, the removal of several new trees planted by the City as well as moving a large utility pole with lamp, power lines, and a crosswalk signal.
The protest is designed to raise awareness and prevent action that compromises a current $300,000 City study on the use DeRenne.
