Redlight Planned for Home Depot Entrance

February 19, 2004

Ken Eslava announced at the stated board meeting tonight that the city has received notice that the Alabama Department of Transportation has agreed to put a redlight on highway 90 at the entrance to Lake Forest.  Residents have been pleading for such a light for months.  Last year Mitch Davis, President of the LFPOA, went before the Public Safety committee of Daphne to ask for this light, a light at the intersection of highway 27 and Lawson Rd and for re-paving of some streets in Lake Forest.  The committee said that neither of those intersections were the responsibility of the City.  Highway 90 is a State highway and Highway 27 is a Baldwin County road.  Mitch wrote to the Baldwin County Commission to ask for help on the Hwy 27 situation and members of the Public Safety Committee said that they would ask the State to reconsider the light on Highway 90.

The decision is welcome news for Lake Forest because with the increased traffic, it was only a matter of time before there would be an accident at that intersection.  No action has been taken regarding the paving of streets in Lake Forest.