The Fort Oglethorpe City Council has delayed a plan for new houses after some neighbors complained about a potential traffic jam.
Developer Justin Hunt wants to put in 60 homes in the 700 block of Steele Road, across the street from Delray Baptist Church. He told the council during a meeting last week that the houses would each be about 1,500-2,000 square feet.
“They would be pretty nice homes,” he said, “a pretty nice subdivision.”
But some neighbors told the council that Steele Road has already become too crowded because of other developments in the past 20 years. First there was Briarstone, Sandra Wallace said. Then there was Applebrook and Sunrise Meadows. Now, the small road in the small town gets crowded.
“Traffic is awful,” said Daniel Riggins, who lives on Aviation Drive off Steele Road. “In the mornings, going to work, you can wait 15, 20 minutes without moving. Mack Smith [Road, at the end of Steele Road] is backed up. Steele Road is backed up.”