Скачать или смотреть 090520 PLUM GROVE CITY COUNCIL CLOSES ROAD

After weeks of legal dealings, the Plum Grove City Council closed County Road 5000which is a private road owned by developer Trey Harris who developed the subdivisions being Plum Grove with close to 20, 000 lots. The City of Plum Grove is a community of about 600 people and was tucked back int he woods almost unnoticed until about 8-years ago when the developer started building roads and selling properties. The traffic has increased dramatically since then. Several roads come out of the subdivision to the main road in Plum Grove. Daily thousands of cars travel it. Loads of dirt, rock, concrete, building material, and mobile homes travel that main road. Over the years the main road has deteriorated. The City Council says that they have an interlocal agreement with the county to fix the roads where it is 50/50. They say the county hasn't stepped up to the plate as of yet. Durning Harvey part of the road washed out and that section has been closed since awaiting FEMA money for repair. The Council sid over the years all the taxes in the area go to Liberty County. Plum Grove just started collecting taxes, however non of the new subdivisions are within the city limits. The road has become very dangerous. In 2019 the developer put a concrete road from the subdivision and put private property signs on it. The City Council would not allow him to connect to the city street of Plum Grove Road. He did though on Christmas Eve of 2019 which the Council say he picked that day as no legal remedy could be taken immediately to stop him.  It has been used by property owners and construction traffic. Now Cleveland has built schools in the new subdivision and school busses must travel it. The concrete road is wide and can handle the traffic. It however dumps onto Plum Grove Road less than one-half mile from the highway FM 2090 and FM 1010. FM 2090 curves onto FM 1010. Plum Grove Road comes out in that curve. Plum Grove Road is quite narrow and has many large potholes making motorists either wait on traffic so they can drive into the oncoming lane to get around them or tear their vehicles up. In the evening traffic backs up into the curve which is a blind curve with a 55 mph speed limit. Traffic from 5000 causes a backup which extends up Plum Grove Road and into the curve. Several crashes have happened at both locations. At 8 am Saturday morning crews from Plum Grove moved in and closed 5000 with not just barricades but piles of rock to make sure the barricades were not removed. The Liberty County Sheriff's Office responded but after they were satisfied that the barricades were on city property they left the scene. Trey Harris was not on the scene Saturday morning. The fight will most likely continue as it has for some time until something can be reached between the developer, the County of Liberty, and the Plum Grove City Council.