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Putnam County Planning Commission Approved the preliminary plat for a new subdivision off of Medline Road that would create some 54-lots on 63 acres.
The item had been tabled at the last meeting so the county’s attorney and the developer’s attorney could reach an agreement for needed road improvements before the development was approved. Putnam County Attorney Jeff Jones said they signed and notarized the agreement just hours before the meeting.
“There is going to be a point from up where the subdivision joins Medlin Road where it’s gravel,” Jones said. “That is going to be a surface width increased to 20 feet with a three-foot shoulder on each side of the road at the entrance of the subdivision where the asphalt starts on Medlin Road.”
Two residents spoke out after the meeting had adjourned saying the planning commission had not given the residents in the area an opportunity to speak. Some 15 residents were in the audience because the preliminary plat was being considered.
While commissioners said they had been down the road several times to see it in person, one resident said it is different when you live there. She said the potential for more than an additional 100 cars could pose serious safety concerns.
“There’s 17 houses on that little road,” the resident said. “Every house has someone that goes to work every day, they have kids that go to school every day. That road has to be passable at all times, in and out, emergency vehicles, there are people that live back there. We have to be safe back there.”
