Seven Villages, Janet Joakim

Rt 28 and Lumbert’s Mill 

It happened again - right on cue. 

Seems most serious accidents in that intersection happen when Continue reading rt 28 and lumbert’s mill rd …. contact info for mass highway…

I have had little time lately to post on this blog, and there are several issues that I need to update.

This post is regarding the notorious Rt. 28 and Lumbert’s Mill Rd. - there has been a renewed discussion about the traffic lights at the intersection of rt 28 and lumberts mill.  While we were away, there was yet another bad accident at that Continue reading route 28 and lumberts mill … still waiting…

We have been dealing with this issue for years …..

more tomorrow…..

 State gives crash course on bureaucracy - 3/29/2008

CENTERVILLE — Red tape has held up Continue reading rt 28 and lumberts mill and red tape…

Been gone for almost two business weeks.

It will take some times to catch up. Got several messages about Continue reading sand in our shoes…

With the house and dogs in good and watchful hands (a true concern these days) we have taken some time off to visit family and friends in the sunshine state — we have already visited the boys of summer for two games and we are now on the east coast.

 very little access to the internet on this trip …

 Check out two blogs that are doing a good job with recent issues

 http://barnstablebeat.blogspot.com

http://precinct3truth.blogspot.com/

 Will be home soon with sand in our shoes!

I watched a replay of a special Zoning Board of Appeals hearing the other night that had been set up to hear an ongoing issue.  The owners of Blanchard’s Liquors, currently located at the edge of the Mall on Rt. 28, purchased the old Knights of Columbus Hall on Rt. 28 in Centerville; two lots down from the newer CVS on the corner of Rt. 28 and Strawberry Hill Rd. an already busy and dangerous intersection. (shown in pink on the map the large green area is the school owned property that includes the middle school and the high school)

They must appear before Z.B.A. because this use, a 9600 + sq foot liquor store, needs a special permit. They plan to knock down the current building and build this new store, pave for the necessary parking and create the curb-cuts needed to accommodate over 1500 trips to and from a package store that will be open seven days a week.

Three town councilors from Centerville see this as a major burden on an already troubled traffic area, and will voice their concerns in a letter to the Z.B.A.

Often, these projects are approved and local residents don’t find out they can speak out against it until the developer is actually building the business. That is when councilors start to hear from local residents. We need to address this project BEFORE it’s approved, and that decision is drawing near.

In this recent televised Z.B.A. hearing the project was presented as supported by Barnstable Middle School officials. This is not true. The school committee reacted to portrayals that they supported the project by voting unanimously to oppose a liquor store on that property so close to both middle school and the high school. 

Currently this store is operating at the Cape Cod Mall with rear access through the mall and with the option of a traffic signaled intersection. It empties out onto Rt. 28 where the road is wider, allowing traffic to merge into moving traffic.  At the location in Centerville, the traffic would simply be turning in and out onto Continue reading a 9600 square foot liquor store on an already burdened route 28?…