of the road. There’s a three-foot high embankment there. There is a ditch along that
drive, so traversing from the sidewalk as it ends back onto the road would be probably not
beneficial for pedestrians and possibly dangerous in inclement weather. At -- at the end
of the road, you could possibly use the neighbor’s driveway to get back onto the
pavement, so in my opinions, the walk along Brown Station Road would be rarely used
because of the navigation to get there. Also along Green Ridge Road, it was mentioned
there’s a stream to cross, which is very expensive. The nature of this neighborhood lends
itself to having a modest home built on the proposed undeveloped lot making construction
of the sidewalk cost prohibitive. Number two, a continuation of the existing conditions of
no sidewalk in this area does not constitute a negative outcome on the area. This is a
long-established neighborhood that has been in existence since the late 1950s and early
1960s, sixty years or so. If the sidewalk is built, it will most certainly destroy the mature
trees that line the area within a foot of the proposed sidewalk location on Green Ridge
Road. In addition, the next existing sidewalk northerly of this proposed plan that would
provide connectivity is along Blue Ridge Road, which is 1,600 feet away. At the other
end of the plat, the walk would have to be extended 900 feet to achieve sidewalk
connectivity. This neighborhood was developed over 60 years ago. The possibility of any
additional sidewalk to be built because of new development in a long-standing developed
area is very unlikely, so it is highly unlikely that this sidewalk will ever connect to another
sidewalk. Number three is consistency. I wanted to bring your attention to another
almost identical design adjustment request that was approved or granted, Case No. 138-
2024, May of this year. The address is at 811 Broadway. It’s at the intersection of
Broadway and Greenwood Avenue. The neighborhood is also a long-standing developed
neighborhood of 60 years or more. Upon requesting to do a two-lot subdivision, a
sidewalk would have had to have been built along Greenwood Avenue for 200 feet along
the frontage of the plat. Greenwood Avenue has no sidewalk at all, just like this present
case we are discussing tonight. The next existing sidewalk to the north is at Ash Street,
1,000 feet away. Broadway does not have -- does have sidewalk along the road, so the
sidewalk would have had connectivity at the intersection. This 811 Broadway property
had less hardship and more connectivity than our present case that we are addressing
tonight, which is on Brown Station Road and Green Ridge Road. I think if a design
adjustment that allowed for not building a sidewalk at 811 Broadway was approved in
May, if consistency is desired, then the design adjustment request that we are asking for
tonight should be approved. I believe if you were to ask the residents of this
neighborhood the question do you think it reasonable to ask or mandate construction of a
sidewalk along the frontage of this tract for the right to divide the two existing structures
onto separate lots and the right to build one more residential home, I believe a large
majority, after considering the above information I just provided would say no. So that’s
