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4r <br />BOOK 69 PACE 289 <br />Commissioner Eggert understood that the intention is to <br />install a light where the two shopping center entrances coincide <br />on Kings Highway, and Director Keating felt that future traffic <br />counts would justify the installation of a light. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked if traffic from the multiple - <br />family area, when it is developed, could use the driveway that <br />would be built to coincide with Ryanwood's, and Director Keating <br />advised that it could. Staff would certainly look at that <br />possibility when a site plan came in and try to consolidate <br />entrances. A determining factor would be if they came in for <br />multiple family or single family, because with it being zoned <br />RM -6, they could come in with either. <br />Jack Almond, 5875 23rd -Street, stressed that the inter- <br />section at SR -60 and Kings Highway is terribly busy, and the <br />traffic backs up on Kings Highway going north past 23rd and 24th <br />Streets. He pointed out that there is no left turn signal for <br />turning onto Kings Highway from SR -60, and you have to wait until <br />on -coming traffic clears before turning left. This is hard to <br />do, and they have noticed that many people become impatient and <br />turn anyway. Mr. Almond maintained that southbound traffic <br />lining up at the intersection of Kings Highway and SR -60 would <br />stack up all the way back to a light installed at the entrances <br />to the two shopping centers. Mr. Almond stated that they have <br />seen and heard some 6 or 8 accidents on Kings Highway just where <br />the 4 lanes narrow down to 2 lanes at the entrance to*23rd <br />Street, and someone was critically injured recently when a car <br />crashed into a utility pole there. Mr. Almond realized that <br />accidents do happen, but he felt that certain things do tend to <br />create a situation where accidents are more prone to happen. He <br />did not believe he has seen that situation anywhere else on a <br />highway. In conclusion, Mr. Almond emphasized that the traffic <br />situation is horrendous now, and did not see how it would get any <br />better with these two driveways lined up within a few hundred <br />28 <br />E7 <br />