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^ISLANDER
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September 3, 2018
Demere
repaving hits
potential snag
By Matthew J. Permar
After the Glynn County
Board of Commissioners’
(BOC) work session on August
21, the Public Works Depart
ment was on track to start re
paving the stretch of Demere
Rd. between the stop light
at Frederica Academy and
Chick-fil-A® - but the project
has hit a snag.
By the time the BOC’s Fi
nance Committee met a week
later on Tuesday August 28,
new information had come to
light about the turn lanes that
could potentially hold up the
project.
The original plan was to
start by mid to late September
and be done by the Georgia /
Florida football game on Octo
ber 27.
The project contained three
separate parts that were bid
as one project - the milling
and repaving; new drainage
lines; and new turn lanes at
the Reserve at Demere resi
dential subdivision.
Engineering Supervisor
David DeLoach said that even
though the project was bid
as a whole, internally it was
broken up into three parts be
cause the money was coming
from different accounts.
Due to concerns about the
turn lanes, the decision by the
finance committee last week
was to recommend that the
full BOC reduce the scope of
work by removing the turn
lane portion of the project
and awarding the contract to
the lowest responsive and re
sponsible bidder, which was
East Coast Asphalt of Doug
las, Georgia in the amount of
$792,268.
What happened was...
back in 2014 Mary Wan LLC,
the developer of the Reserve
at Demere, was required by
Glynn County, as part of the
development, to construct the
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Demere repaving
Established in 1972
Vol 46 Issue 36
Intersection improvements
The proposed 'traditional intersection’ road improvements at the intersection of Kings Way and
Frederica Rd. on St. Simons Island. The design was presented by Glynn Public Works during
a recent Glynn County Board of Commissioners work session. Developed by Southeastern
Engineering Inc., the designs also included a roundabout as an option for this intersection, but
commission consensus seems to favor this version over the roundabout.
Image by Southeastern Engineering Inc.
Roundabout not likely at Kings Way / Frederica
By Matthew J. Permar
At one time, while the Glynn
County Board of Commission
ers (BOC) was planning for
the road improvements they
intend to make on St. Simons
Island with Special Purpose
Local Option Sales Tax 2016
money, they considered con
structing a roundabout at the
intersection of Kings Way and
Frederica Road on the island’s
south end.
However, while other
roundabouts are still being
considered for other island
intersections, Kings Way and
Frederica is going to remain
a “traditional” intersection
with a traffic signal. The im
provements are going to be
additional turn lanes and an
upgraded traffic signal.
A consensus to this effect
was reached at a recent BOC
work session (August 21)
when Scott Jordan of South
eastern Engineering Inc.
(SEI) presented an evaluation
of both the traditional and
roundabout options for the
intersection. The county con
tracted with SEI to perform
the evaluation and compari
son of the two options.
At the work session the
BOC told staff to move for
ward with getting a bid for
construction of the traditional
intersection improvements.
In past discussions, when
the roundabout option was
being considered, Islands
Commissioner Peter Murphy
(Dist. 2), was skeptical of a
roundabout for that particu
lar intersection. He suggested
having staff do the engineer
ing comparison of the two op
tions, which is what Jordan
presented.
According to the report,
both the traditional and
roundabout options were eval
uated using new traffic counts
that were taken during the
first full week of June.
SEI worked in conjunction
with county staff, the Glynn
County airport staff and
Sea Island Acquisition LLC
(SLA). Jordan said multiple
meetings were held with the
stakeholders.
SIA owns much of the sur
rounding property at the in
tersection, including the south
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Kings Way
Keeping Jekyll
Jekyll - a
manageable
problem
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
The Jekyll Island Author
ity (JIA) has a problem most
of wish we had, success.
But the problem success
has brought is keeping Jekyll
Jekyll; keeping the ambiance
tourists come to Jekyll to en
joy and the delicate balance
between the environment and
man / woman.
In February of this year the
JIA hired Sand County Stu
dios from Smyrna, Ga. to con
duct a ‘carrying capacity and
infrastructure assessment’
that would allow the JIA
Board to make informed deci
sions about land use, density,
development projects, and
amenity enhancements. The
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Keeping Jekyll
JIA approves One
Georgia MOU for
$2.5 million
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
During last week’s meet
ing (Aug. 28) the Jekyll Island
Authority (JIA) approved a
Memorandum of Understand
ing (MOU) with OneGeorgia
Authority to accept a $2.5
million grant which will go to
ward beach revetment infra
structure improvements.
Funds are from the FY
2018 State amended budget
and will be used to construct
and rebuild 16 beach access
structures at the end of ev
ery residential “t-street” from
Brice Lane northward to Tallu
Fish Lane as well as one more
at the northern terminus of
the revetment connecting to
the popular Driftwood Beach
area.
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JIA grant
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