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A building permit for a new high school along Winchester Road will be issued Thursday morning.
Officials
from the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Fayette County
Public Schools met Wednesday afternoon to iron out issues surrounding
traffic flow into the school, and they came to an agreement.
"We
had a successful meeting with school representatives this afternoon, and
we have general agreement on needed traffic improvements," said Derek
Paulsen, the city's planning commissioner.
The city issued a
stop-work order Aug. 12 after discovering that a plan review had not
been completed for the high school even though construction had begun.
As
part of that plan review, different city departments must sign off on
key parts of the plan, including traffic engineering. Traffic
engineering had not approved the plan because it needed more information
about how students would access the high school, which will have a main
entrance on Winchester Road and an access road that leads to Sir Barton
Way, city officials said Monday.
The school system previously had
been issued a land disturbance permit. Contractors were allowed to
continue to do limited site preparation work this week while the school
district and the city worked out how traffic was going to enter and exit
the school.
The main entrance for the high school is on
Winchester Road, but school officials say many people will enter and
exit the property via a new access road — Meeting Street — that connects
with Sir Barton Way.
But city officials said they needed to know more about traffic flow before a permit could be issued.
At
the Wednesday meeting, the two sides agreed capacity would be increased
in the turn lane from Sir Barton Way to Meeting Street. There will be
continued discussion on improving access to the school from Winchester
Road, city officials said late Wednesday.
D.W. Wilburn Inc. has a $62 million contract with the district to build the school.
The
total cost of the school is expected to be more than $81 million. The
school, scheduled to open in fall 2017, is being built on 65 acres at
2000 Winchester Road. It will serve about 1,800 students.
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/08/19/3996165_after-meeting-on-traffic-concerns.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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