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EDITOR: While I praise Supervisor Knight and the Board of Supervisors for their efforts to improve traffic conditions in El Dorado Hills, I also challenge them to think.
Traffic is merely a symptom of the larger problem of overwrought development in El Dorado Hills, primarily along Green Valley Road and Silva Valley Road.
The Silva Valley Exchange, providing another EDH/50 interchange and connecting El Dorado Hills and Highway 50 to Elk Grove and Highway 99, will likely turn Silva Valley Road into a traffic nightmare. Particularly, if the proposed developments along Green Valley Road are approved by the board: Dixon Ranch, Wilson Estates, the Green Springs Equestrian Center, the Winn Commercial Center, to name a few.
Anyone who drives Silva Valley Road during the school year understands the congestion caused just by parents picking up, dropping off their children. Now, add existing and increasing traffic emanating from Green Valley Road, from expanded developments, headed for the new exchange.
The board needs to think: cause and effect. And be a bit more circumspect in approving traffic spawning developments. Boasting about adding right turn lanes is OK; but the board needs to stop the bleeding where it starts: unmitigated development.
BILL WELTY
El Dorado Hills
Bill, Praise is a strong word for Supervisor Knight and the Board of Supervisors for a job less than half done in El Dorado Hills and for that matter, El Dorado County. The BOS obviously thinks about Cause and Effect when voting. Not sure their thoughts are about the cause and effect to the people they represent as much as the daily special interest lobbyists. Knight was defeated for re-election in spite of special interest money. Demand all elected officials vote in the interest of the residents they represent. This could be the beginning where the residents have turned the corner.?
Ernie Louis
El Dorado
Develop these empty areas. Put in large factories and business parks. Tear down the city halls and run the bureaucratic fools out of town. Build baby -Build!
I agree with Sean Osullivan. Liberals like Welty want to control what people can do with their property. I say, if you own land, you should be able to build whatever you want on it. Too bad about traffic and crowding. The free market will sort that out. The people of ED Hills don’t get to say anything about anything except within their own land. Anything else is just communism. We have got to stop electing democrats. These people believe in things like community planning which takes away property rights.