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All quiet on the eastern front? Noise barrier wall under construction on east side of U.S. 220 in Summerfield
residential communities to the east of the highway, which is under construction to expand the roadway from two to four lanes with a median.
by JESSICA WATERS
The sound-reducing wall will extend on both sides of Joseph Hoskins Road, which serves as the entrance to the Elmhurst Estates subdivision.
SUMMERFIELD – Construction is well underway on the noise barrier wall in Summerfield, located between the northbound lanes of U.S. 220 and the
NCDOT district engineer Bobby Norris
Construction is well underway on the noise barrier wall along U.S. 220 near the entrance to Elmhurst Estates. The wall extends both north and south of Joseph Hoskins Road on the east side of the highway, where NCDOT is currently working on a construction project that will expand the highway from two to four lanes with a median.
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Town, CrossFit reach compromise The fitness facility will have up to 30 days to comply with a settlement agreement signed on Sept. 22 by PATTI STOKES OAK RIDGE – It’s been a long and tough road to hoe, but the Town of Oak Ridge and CMT Commons, owner
of CrossFit Oak Ridge, have negotiated a compromise that both parties hope will end their longstanding dispute. In 2011 CMT Commons requested that property next door to Oak Ridge Town Hall on Linville Road be rezoned to CU-LB (Conditional Use – Limited Business) in order to construct a 12,350-square-foot, single-story, “barn-type building” for a multipurpose sports training facility. The
agreed upon conditions for that zoning were that use of the property would be limited to an athletic field, martial arts instruction, physical fitness center, sports instructional school and indoor sports and recreation club. Since the building was con-
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