Keowee Circle closure

Living at the corner since 1969, she presented hand-tallied traffic counts — including 322 cars in three hours on March 10 — and described near-misses at the curve. 'This is a serious problem.'

The neighbor furthest from the surviving entrance. He concedes cut-through traffic is real and isn't against a temporary closure, but opposes permanent abandonment — especially with no plan for pedestrian and bike access to the new Old Monroe Road sidewalks.

Lives at 117 Cherokee Lane on the dangerous curve. Says a head-on collision is coming, wants trees cut back, sidewalks, or maybe a residents-only gate — and says 'doing nothing is not an option.'