Avon Hires Traffic Engineer to Review Lenox Road Housing Proposal Traffic Plan

The town of Avon hired its own traffic engineer to give a second opinion about Sunlight Construction's traffic plan for a controversial 39-unit housing cluster development proposed for Lenox Road.

Many Avon residents who complained to town officials about Sunlight Construction's development proposal worry that a new connecting road in the plan,  Stratfordshire Ridge, will become a cut-thru that increases traffic in their neighborhood. 

But Sunlight Construction's traffic engineer maintains that this will not be the case on the road, which would run from Haynes Road to Lenox Road and possibly extend to Hollister Drive. 

Some residents at a public hearing on the proposal in October asked the commission if the town could do its own traffic study as a comparison.

John Meyers Consulting will review options “to further reduce the possibility that people will use this connected roadway between Lenox Road and Haynes Road as a bypass or shortcut," Avon Town Planner Steve Kushner said. The company also worked on the traffic plan for The Fresh Market specialty grocery store on Route 44 and the upcoming LCB Senior Living facility on Route 10.

Fire and emergency officials say that a connecting road could also bring better access for emergency vehicles to Haynes Road. 

The public hearing for the Sunlight Construction housing cluster development on Lenox Road in Avon is scheduled to continue at the Planning and Zoning Committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19 in the Avon Volunteer Fire Department Company 1 firehouse at 25 Darling Dr. 

Would you support a connecting road between Haynes and Lenox Roads?