Phase Two
News
06/12/09 UPDATE
Fast-forward a year! It's been unclear whether the extension of
Cloverlane Rd (Hunt Club Dr to Carpenter Rd) is open to traffic because
the various blocking materials have been being moved by work crews and
.... who knows whom. But speaking with Officer Ritchie Coleman and
others at Pittsfield, it's apparent that the road will eventually be open to traffic -
maybe even this summer. Apparently, the County is okay with the
developer making the road publicly accessible will they're working on
building houses. When the road finally opens (and before, when you
decide to sneak through) please be mindful of the fact that there are
many area children who have been using that road for bike riding and
many others who have been taking advantage of no vehicular traffic on
that road so that they can go for evening walks. The posted speed limit
will likely be 25 mph through there and, according to Officer Coleman,
that stretch of road will be under the close scrutiny of Pittsfield Twp
squad cars.
Two basements and driveways had been poured, as of early this week, and
the roundabout has now been paved with concrete. One lot has been
marked "sold" but there haven't been any improvements to the property.
Another word of caution: please beware that since the Phase Two area is
a construction site, when the carpenters start showing up to frame
houses, there are likely to be nails littering the roadway. You've been
warned!
[Note: if anyone has
photos they'd like to share, email them to the webmaster and we'll see
about getting those photos posted.]
06/09/08
If you hadn't noticed by now, a good chunk of the woods between fields
2 and 3 (field 1 is closest to I-94, field 3 sort of wraps around the
Connor Dr/Ct end of phase one, and field 4 hasn't been planted -- it's
become a haven for foxes, coyotes, skunks, 'possums, raccoons, and lots
of different kinds of birds....oh, and a campsite with a firepit....but
I digress). Turns out the county road commission apparently convinced
Livonia Builders that it would be best to go ahead and put in the road.
I haven't been able to get anything out of Danny Veri about their
plans, but judging by how poorly the housing market is doing, I'd be
shocked if they started putting in infrastructure (sewer lines,
drainage, electrical, gas, etc) this summer. My guess: that won't
happen for another year or more.
It's kinda neat seeing how they go about building a road. The first
thing we noticed were survey stakes marking travis points - that came
in March or so. Then, in May, a silt fence appeared. At the end of May,
orange plastic fencing started to appear and, finally, right at the
beginning of June, the "weapons of mass destruction" appeared. This thing can saw a tree trunk at the ground,
grab the trunk and lay the tree down in a convenient place for the next
machine to do its work. That would either be the grabber on the end of this tractor (here's the grabber), or this ginormous
chipper. The end result - deforestation. I wonder what the deer are
thinking, right about now.
I noticed that three tractor-scrapers
had arrived, today.
Still trying to find information about the building plan at the road
commission's website.
(More on that soon - I'm playing phone tag with my contact at the
county....)
Carpenter Road construction is moving along nicely. It'll be really
nice to have bike lanes on either side of the road. It takes about
eight minutes to pedal from ARCA to Meijer....it'll be much safer once
the sidewalks are complete and the Cloverlane extension is completed.
Stay tuned for more updates.
P.S. If you have any photos to share, please send them to the webmaster
at arborridge.net!
06/23/07
According to Sheryl Siddall at the Washtenaw
County Road Commission, in light
of the Carpenter Road widening project (now under way), the Road
Commission has had discussions with Livonia
Builders about coordination
options for
the Cloverlane extension to Carpenter Road. At this time, Livonia
Builders has not applied for nor obtained a permit
from the Road Commission for the extension.
Ron Torrella
Webmaster
