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Section 23: OPA Elections Subject: Candidates Forum Msg# 923933
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Thanks Joe,
I did read about the study by Salisbury folks and wondered why money was being spent for that study. I agree that a maintenance plan is needed and now. It should include all facilities and infrastructure. My back ground is Civil Engineering and when I read posts about the bridges and particularly the bridge where studies were completed and subsequently updated I was surprised to learn that nothing was done after the study. Appropriate action would have been to start the process to replace the crumbling bridge when the report was completed. It is a several year process to get the plans completed, funding/approval etc. Rather than spend money at that time on some of the safety recommendations the replacement process could have been started and the bridge replaced, brought up to current MDOT standards all in one project. I would like to OPA take immediate action to replace or rehab any bridges that have been identified as needing improvement |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Finally, I am confused as to the existence of a comprehensive plan. Is there one. Does it provide a road map for the next 10 to 15 years? OPA has made much fanfare of working on a Comprehensive Plan. Tom Terry became president in 2011 and started a new invigorated Comp plan committee. It worked for three or four years and accomplished nothing. Now OPA has hired some guy out of Salisbury University who will work a Weegie board on the available government census reports and databases of what people buy at Walmart, etc. to tell us what we should do. He says he will talk to the important people in OP to determine what needs to be done. All pure nonsense. Comprehensive Plans are generally used to control development, typically via zoning. We have little or no land to develop and the subdivision is built-out. What we do need is a decent maintenance plan for our facilities and other infrastructure. We are worrying about 30 years down the road while chunks of concrete are dropping on boats going under canal bridges. |
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