Blue Water Bridge Plaza Hearing Certification Comment Summ…

BLUE WATER BRIDGE PLAZA STUDY SAMPLE COMMENTS FROM HEARING TRANSCRIPT General Comments, Issues and Questions • Provide a drive (possibly one-way) from proposed Welcome Center north to west Water Street to circulate visitors back to Port Huron and Fort Gratiot businesses. • You are taking my neighbor’s home, but not mine, and I am concerned what it will do to my property value. th• The plan is unsafe because Pine Grove and 10 Ave. could be blown up. • Work closely with Port Huron and St. Clair County planners to make corridor “friendly” for transiting traffic to easily get off in our community. Use signage to direct motorists. • We don’t want more noise, traffic and pollution in our community. • Spend the money on people, not on big business. • We local people need ID cards. • There needs to be a visitor’s center on northbound where people can stop for essentials and obtain information on Port Huron and points of interest. • There should be a 25-cent per toll fee from all vehicles passing over the bridge to offset the loss of tax base the city will be incurring. • Commit in writing the verbal pledge to not divert any bridge bound traffic off of I-94 on to local streets at any time during construction. Offloading truck traffic alone would virtually paralyze transportation and commerce in the city of Port Huron. • Reconsider cancellation of the fast track policy, but allow city to collect property tax on properties acquired for time it would take ...