It is hard to believe that the city of Georgetown did not learn anything after the fiasco of constructing a connector road between Sun City and its 10,000 homes and Woodland Park, an older community with large lots and relatively few homes. The anger and acrimony that was generated was fierce and continues to this day. It could have all been avoided if the Apache Mountain Lane - Majestic Oak connection were disapproved when the subdivision map was originally submitted.
Now the city is going down the same path by preparing to approve two connector roads between a new 940 home development called The Madison and the existing Shady Oaks development. There are two major roads planned out of The Madison, one to Hwy 195 and one to Ronald Reagan. Clearly there is no need to connect to the narrow Shady Oaks streets.
The same old tired excuses of public safety and mobility are trotted out as justification. If public safety is so important to The Madison, then maybe a fire house should be included in The Madison's development plans. The police will have quick and easy access from their headquarters down Shell Road and then up Hwy 195 to The Madison or a substation could be included in The Madison's plans. Certainly many other solutions to mobility and public safety exist that do not require disrupting old established neighborhoods.
It is also reported that the city's development code requires that a development connect to nearby existing rods. If this is true, it is time to revise the development code and allow common sense to prevail.
It is time that the city learn from past experience and consider the desires and needs of the current citizens as it plans for future growth.
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