LIVE at Cedarday Drive Public Hearing

EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to poor Internet access, I was not able to continue live updates. Rest assured, I stayed the entire meeting and will provide video and a full update by the time you wake up, if not before you go to bed later Tuesday night. Thanks for reading and I apologize for any inconvenience.

6:25 p.m. The forum is about to go into group sessions. One of the Cedarday residents stood up and spoke out about speeding beforehand.

“The speeding is out of control in our neighborhood in Cedarday,” he said.

He claims that 29 citations were written in 90 minutes, and that only two of them were tickets.

“There was one kid in a black Camaro, you better tell him to slow down because he’s going to kill somebody. Fifty-two in a 25.”

6:22 p.m. Sheriff Jesse Bane is in attendance.

6:19 p.m. “Right now we really don’t know how many people are going to be coming down Cedarday Drive. We have some ideas, we have some guesses,” Stratmeyer said. “We really don’t know specific volumes of traffic coming down that road.”

If the volume of traffic is higher than anticipated, the county will hold another community meeting. But Cooper has authorized skipping the step of traffic “counting” and traffic studies.

A subcommittee meeting will be held to discuss the issues. Seven to nine people will be selected for the committee, Stratmeyer said.

6:18 p.m. The county has been advised that speed bumps should not be installed on Cedarday Drive.

6:17 p.m. The speed limit cannot go any lower than 25 mph.

The manual of Uniform Traffic Control devices specifies that stop signs cannot be used for speed control.

6:16 p.m. There will be a “hiker, biker” trail about eight feed wide along Cedarday Drive that leads to Cedar Lane Regional Park.

6:14 p.m. The detour route for Wheel Road is not Cedarday Drive, it’s MacPhail Road.

“Some of the locals might use Cedarday Drive, in particular, Phase II,” Stratmeyer said. “As a whole I don’t see a lot of people using Cedarday Drive as a detour route.”

The speed limit will remain at 25 mph on Cedarday Drive. On the undeveloped portion of the road past the bridge, it will be 30 mph.

6:08 p.m. “These projects have been approved by the county executive and the county council,” Cooper said.

6 p.m. Hello, neighbors. The public hearing is expected to begin shortly. FYI, my Internet connection is very slow here in Patterson Mill’s cafeteria. It’s like they wouldn’t want students to be able to use their phones during school. Weird.

Harford County Director of Public Works Bob Cooper is expected to get things started with “opening remarks,” as stated on the agenda.

Deputy Director H. Hudson Myers III is then expected to give a schedule and overview of the project.

Lastly, Chief of Engineering Jeff Stratmeyer is scheduled to discuss detour routes and traffic concerns.

Attendees are then expected to split into work groups to discuss each specific project and concern.