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Just an FYI, as I haven't seen anyone talk about it... This plan may seem rather innocuous...but for the current residents of Walworth Avenue it's a harrowing prospect. Once you take drive down our street, make it to the end and have to do a 4 point turn-around (remember the 3 point turn-around from driver's education? this is tighter!) you can perhaps understand that we have some serious concerns! None of us are against development. But don't try to squeeze 50lbs of crap into a 20lb bag! Especially when that 20lb bag is filled with gold...at least in our minds. Our street, as it is now, emptying out onto a horrible intersection (blind to the right coming off of Riverside, vulnerable to the left coming down Delta, uncontrolled traffic coming at you west on Eastern) does not have one of the safest locations as it currently stands. I beg anyone to drive down our street and picture a full-size Fire Truck trying to come down it! And you know they want access to their backend of their truck, so they have to back a hook&ladder all the way back there? Insane! It's hairy in our current situation...downright dangerous even to think about not providing an alternative route should more residences be built. You can't port all the new occupants down Walworth. Does that solve anything? Does the city/neighborhood councils want to exacerbate an already bad situation? I would think No. What needs to be done is to build another thoroughfare for this development. But, of course, the developer doesn't want to have to go through all that trouble to get the city/county/neighborhood council to sign off on it. They have to do it on the cheap and expedient. Sorry, but while I'd be excited about the thought of this development if I was on the City Council, and perhaps the neighborhood council, I can't see how it can go forward without a serious redrawing of the plans to realistically address the existing neighborhood's concerns. I can tell you one thing...the Walworth Avenue neighborhood won't allow this to go through in any way close to it's current form without a serious fight...and maybe even a lawsuit. I'm just saying... Looks pretty on paper though!