Oak Ridge North City Council will receive a draft of the city's comprehensive plan at a council meeting June 3, as the city prepares for a second public hearing and fine tunes the plan before the council's approval and 2014 budget planning later this summer.
The most recent draft of the plan will be presented at a council meeting at 7 p.m. June 3 at City Hall at 27424 Robinson Road by Jim Carrillo, vice president for Halff & Associates, a consultant which helped compile the plan over the last year. City Manager Vicky Rudy said the council meeting was originally planned for May 29, but was cancelled and moved to Monday due to a public posting error.
Rudy said not much will be changed from the initiatives presented at the most recent public meeting on April 23. Plan initiatives already include the rerouting of Robinson Road, the creation of a town center, additional studies, infrastructure improvements and possibly new parks and pathways.
However, the updated plan will likely include the possibility of a diverging diamond interchange at the intersection of I-45, Robinson Road and Woodlands Parkway. Rudy said the diverging diamond is a unique design which would force eastbound and westbound traffic to the left side of Robinson Road and Woodlands Parkway to provide motorists a designated lane to enter the I-45 feeder.
