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CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2001 - 9
'Forgotten Mile' improvements (traw mixed reactions
By Michael Short
Delaware's Department of
Transportation (DelDOT) has
changed its plans and moved a
proposed traffic light from Dodd
Avenue to Bayard Avenue.
That change followed a petition
drive and considerable opposition
from residents of the Dodd Av-
enue area, who argued that Dodd
was simply not large enough to
accommodate increased traffic.
DelDOT brought its revised plans
for what is often termed the "for-
gotten mile" to the public during a
workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 17.
They were promptly told by
many of those in attendance that
they should have left well enough
alone and left the traffic light at
Dodd Avenue.
Thelocation of the traffic signal
is the most controversial element
of the plan, which calls for major
upgrades to Route 1 between the
Lewes-Rehoboth Canal to just
north of Sauisbury Street in
Dewey Beach.
The project is expected to begin
in late 2002 or early in 2003. It
will take an estimated 14 months
to complete, although that pace
could perhaps be hurried along if
DelDOT does some of the work at
night.
The plans call for installation of
pedestrian crosswalks, painted to
look like brick, along the route.
The whole roadway will be
repaved, shoulders will be made
one uniform size and sidewalks
will be installed on both sides of
Route I along the length of the
project.
DelDOT's Mike Baibierer said
the traffic signal location was
changed following public con-
cern. "There was a lot of public
outcry, so we re-evaluated," Bal-
bierer said.
Darin Dell, also of DelDOT, ex-
plained that Bayard is a wider
street and placing the traffic light
at Bayard allows traffic and
pedestrian movements to be better
coordinated. The narrowness of
Dodd Avenue was a major con-
cern of local residents after Del-
DOT moved the proposed light to
that location. "It lessens the con-
flict areas," he said.
In addition to adding the traffic
light to Bayard, the plans also call
for another major change. Under
the plans the intersection of
Chicago and Bayard, where it
meets northbound Route 1, would
be closed.
Continued on page 10
Moratorium
Continued from page 1
already developed, said Ippolito.
"Most of the threat is gone so it's
time to move on."
Ippolito said a number of the or-
dinance changes agreed to at pre-
vious canalfront workshop ses-
sions will be put on the back burn-
er for a while. "They can be resur-
rected when council wants but
there doesn't seem to be much
support for getting back into that
for now."
At previous workshops, Council
members had agreed to more re-
strictive lot coverage and setbacks
in the commercial zone along the
canal. They had agreed to lower
'the permitted height in the corn-
mercial areas along the canal -
from the present 40 feet to 34 feet
- and had mandated that new con-
struction allow room for a I 0-foot
wide public walkway between
buildings and the canal to create
more public access to canal vistas.
As a result of action expected at
the Jan. 18 special meeting, those
items are part of what will go on
the back burner.
Instead, current zoning regula-
tions for the zone known as com-
mercial core, along the canal, will
continue to reign.
The slim turnout by Council
members at the Jan. 11 workshop
followed strong moratorium criti-
cism leveled by Dale Parsons and
J.B. Walsh at the Jan. 8 Mayor and
Council meeting. Both said the
moratorium, first enacted in No-
vember of 1999, was aimed pri-
marily at their properties and was
unfair. Parsons owns the Fisher-
man's Wharf property and the
Lewes Boatyard property being
purchased by Greater Lewes
Foundation for the City.
Walsh said the moratorium halt-
ed plans by tenants of his Anglers
Restaurant to upgrade the facility
by adding a banquet room. Jim
Kiernan, who owns the Irish Eyes
at Anglers business, said it was
too late to move ahead with the
Lewes project and would look
elsewhere to start another restau-
rant..
He announced this week that
there are plans afoot to open a
new Irish Eyes in Rehoboth Beach
on the first block of Rehoboth Av-
enue.
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