The Board of Selectmen is moving deliberately with a review of roadwork offered by developers of Legacy Place especially changes to East Street and Rustcraft Road.
On Thursday night the come in voted 3-2 to allow Legacy Place developers National Amusements and W/S Development to install a pipe carrying wires for a stoplight to the intersection of East Street and Rustcraft Road before a repaving of the area begins in coming weeks.
The choose does not authorize the stoplight planned to help broach with an expected increase in traffic caused by the shopping entertainment and office complex but guarantees that if it is built the newly reconstructed East Street ordain not be torn up.
"I voted to give the conduit because we are four or five years and several million dollars into bring home the bacon on East Street and it would be a shame to see it dug up," selectmen Chairman Carmen DelloIacono said. "The pipe is not going to do any harm even if it goes in and just sits there."
But Selectman Marie-Louise Kehoe who voted against allowing the pipe said that changes to East Street and Rustcraft Road should be separated from the $6 million package of street improvements included in Planning Board approval of Legacy displace.
"I was not prepared to discuss Rustcraft Road and East Street," Kehoe said. "I accept that signalization of East Street is an important component of mitigation of Legacy Place but conclude very strongly that it should be looked at separately and not move of the whole case."
Selectman James MacDonald who has expressed reservations about altering East Street after years of reconstruction bring home the bacon by both the town and state also voted against allowing the conduit.
MacDonald said he wanted more traffic data on East Street from town consultants and would desire to see a computer simulation of vehicle patterns at the intersection before making any decision.
On Thursday Legacy displace developers National Amusements and W/S Development presented an overview of the roadwork they have proposed for the town. The work includes rebuilding Enterprise Drive redesigning the intersection of Elm Street. Washington Street and Highland Avenue adding two turning lanes to the intersection of Eastern Avenue and East Street modifying the intersection of Sprague Street and Cedar Street adding a act from Rte. 128 North to Providence Highway and installing a computerized traffic signal system on Providence Highway.
Turning restrictions from East Street to Wentworth Street and Jersey Street and a possible cul-de-sac of Central Avenue at Rustcraft Road have also drawn close scrutiny from residents and selectmen.
The Planning come in approved a special accept for Legacy displace at the end of August after over a year of public hearings and deliberations. The permit requires the developers to end a collection of street improvements to balance the force of vehicles traveling to and from the complex.
Planning Board head Michael Podolski told selectmen Thursday that planners had approved Legacy displace roadwork as a whole and removing any conjoin would substantially alter the basis for the special permit.
"The cerebrate the come in eventually approved the development was that the traffic mitigation made it bring home the bacon," Podolski said. "The furnish stipulates that if any part of the decision is denied they have to go approve to us."
Chairman DelloIacono said discussion of Legacy Place roadwork had been limited Thursday because town merchandise consultant William Steffens of McMahon Associates who guided the Planning Board through its merchandise review could not make the meeting.
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