Comments on: Land in hand, Davidson Day needs $5M to start new campus http://davidsonnews.net/blog/2012/05/01/land-in-hand-davidson-day-needs-5m-to-start-new-campus/ Local news in Davidson, N.C. Sun, 31 May 2015 05:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: George Berger http://davidsonnews.net/blog/2012/05/01/land-in-hand-davidson-day-needs-5m-to-start-new-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-6546 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:39:08 +0000 http://davidsonnews.net/?p=61378#comment-6546 Like Kris, I have a lot of faith (pardon) in the DDS folks that they’ll make something special at a second location. However, I would caution them about Faith Road, which is very narrow and heavily-used as a crossing connector between the Shearers Road/Hwy 3 corridor and Hwy 115 … the road is essentially one that hasn’t been widened that much since its original unpaved farm road days, and it was — DNN.Net readers will recall — where our neighbor Julie Zimmerman was almost killed two years ago in July while cycling by a distracted driver going much too fast. It would certainly help if Iredell County and Mooresville officials could work with NCDOT and the School to widen the entirety of Faith Road to the new ‘complete street’ standard, along with with appropriate facilities for bicycles and pedestrians.

A linked issue–ingress/egress and access–comes to mind because of a situation I found myself in the other day, stuck in a 30-minute-plus traffic jam at the end of the school day up at Lake Norman High School. There was a wreck on River Road, I think, and it was impossible for buses, student cars, parents with kids, and anyone else to get out of the school’s one-way in, one-way out access on Doolie Road. I wish the site plan being shown with the article was ‘zoomable,’ so it was possible to see if is/could be a second entrance, etc., for folks to use if/when Faith Road is blocked, or backed up. As suburban as the Hough/Bailey school locations are, at least they have three ways out of the area.

Again, I’m sure the school planners will do a good job; I’d just ask that they work closely with their public sector partners to fully consider the situation outside their property boundaries for the safety and convenience of their students, faculty and staff, and neighbors.

]]> By: Kris Krider http://davidsonnews.net/blog/2012/05/01/land-in-hand-davidson-day-needs-5m-to-start-new-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-6545 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:13:19 +0000 http://davidsonnews.net/?p=61378#comment-6545 I wish Davidson Day all the best in their efforts to raise funds for a new high school. They have an outstanding track record in such a short number of years. Bonnie Cotter has done a great job and I always thought they were a great group to work with, despite some significant site challenges. I do wonder if some of their enrollment success is due to the Davidson location, in particular, accessibility to the interstate, a highly visible site and the Davidson community. I wonder whether a more suburban location will fair as well. High schools are car depenedent and can eat up a lot of land. Unfortunately, that means they end up in rural areas like W.A. Hough H.S. or, as in this case, South Iredell. If anyone can make it work though, it’s Davidson Day.

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