Transportation project list on the lean side
by Doug Walker
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A draft Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) for Rome and Floyd County will be pitched to the local Transportation Planning committee today.

“I wish it looked fatter, but it doesn’t,” said Sue Hiller, Rome-Floyd planning director. “We don’t have a lot of projects in the TIP right now.”

City Commissioner Kim Canada expressed concern to members of the Joint Oversight committee about House Bill 277, legislation that passed in April, which provides for regional transportation funding. If a region were to choose not to put forward a transportation sales tax package, all local governments within the region would have to provide a 50 percent match to get state road assistance.

If a package was put to voters and the voters rejected it, local governments would have to put up a 30 percent match to get certain state highway aid. If voters approve a transportation tax, local governments would only have to contribute a 10 percent match.

The Director of Planning at the DOT would have to provide advance approval to all projects that would be put on the list submitted to voters.

Also on Wednesday:

  • Hiller told Rome and Floyd County commissioners that the planning office would be conducting a survey of housing conditions across the community this summer. Hiller said the survey would be of a “drive-by” nature, not particularly in depth, but something to give leaders a snapshot of housing conditions across the county.

  • Building Inspection office chief Howard Gibson told the committee that a demolition permit for the Johnny Carino’s building was issued Tuesday. Developers Wayne Robinson and Brooke Temple will build a new Steak ‘n Shake on the Carino’s site in the Village Shopping Center on Turner McCall Blvd.

  • Environmental planner Eric Lindberg told the committee that plans to reconfigure the parking area at the new ECO Center in Ridge Ferry Park should be completed next week.

    “I’m still concerned with handicapped accessibility of that building. It’s not acceptable,” said City Commissioner Buzz Wachstster. Lindberg said that specially designated handicapped parking is being located at the top of a driveway ramp, adjacent to the building.

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