Rosewood Elementary School was awarded a grant from the S.C. Department of Transportation in 2007 to address traffic calming issues near the school. Proposed improvements include sidewalks near the school, a traffic light at the intersection of Walker St. and Rosewood Drive, and increasing the length of the school zone speed limit along Rosewood Drive. Surveyors tagged trees on Prentice Street, South Elm, and South Walker recently as part of this study.
Read more at the Safe Routes website.
Rosewood Residents:
The City of Columbia is looking for your input on a plan that will guide development in the Rosewood neighborhood and along Rosewood Drive. Please plan to attend a drop-in on Thursday, October 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Edisto Discovery Park Building, 1914 Wiley Street, for the first in a three-part series to discuss land-use issues along Rosewood Drive and in the neighborhood. Also, please take this survey for planning staff.
For more information on this plan, visit the city’s website. Below are the dates of three meetings. Morning and afternoon meetings will be the same
Thursday, October 27th, 2011: 11:30am to 12:30 pm & 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 15, 2011: 11:30am to 1:30 pm & 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Thursday, February 16, 2012: 11:30am to 1:30 pm & 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Do you live near Rosewood Elementary? Some trees on Prentice Street and South Walker currently have white ribbons around them from surveyors determining the sidewalk needs of the neighborhood. See the below email for more details.
“We have received multiple calls over the last week about trees with white tags in the Rosewood area. These trees are being surveyed for a Safe Route to School Project for Rosewood Elementary. The tags on the trees do not mean anything except they are being placed on the survey for the project. According to the surveyors, the flagging should be removed when the survey is completed and the hope is to have it completed by the end of next week (Oct. 28). This project is in the planning stages and the survey is the first step. Again, the white flagging does not mean anything related to the trees.
Please let me know if you have any other questions about this.
Thanks,
Sara Hollar
Forestry and Beautification Superintendent City of Columbia 545-3860″
Please join your neighbors on Thursday, October 27, at 6:30 in the Owens Field airport conference room, 1600 Jim Hamilton Blvd. We’ll have city council candidates, information about the Rosewood Corridor study, an update about Rosewood and Valencia Parks improvements, an introduction of the Central Rosewood representative, and elections. Hope to see you there!
Update: Seth Rose, Rosewood’s county councilmember-to-be will be speaking, along with Moe Baddourah, City Council District 3 candidate.
