Plainview Road maintenance acceptance

Speaking for Plainview Road residents, he asked the town to accept the 1968-platted private gravel road for municipal maintenance, citing its deteriorating condition, emergency access, and decades of being bounced between the town and NCDOT.

She described her veteran husband with PTSD falling on the pothole-riddled road and being unable to walk for exercise, and noted the neighborhood met the ten-house minimum years ago with no follow-through.

He said residents pay taxes but don't get the benefits other town residents do, with potholes two to three feet deep, and invited council to come see the road.

She said driving the road feels like a roller coaster, it's unsafe near the bridge, and her special-needs son's bus can't come down the road so she must meet it elsewhere.

He described an incident with an ATV speeding over potholes and throwing rocks, and a garbage truck stuck in the mud at the road's end.

A resident since 1988, she recounted decades of calls to the town and state, the 1998 annexation, the 2008 stormwater culvert repair that saved the road, and asked that it be paved so buses and fire trucks can get in.

She asked whether the town has contacts for state or federal grant programs to reduce the cost burden, noting many seniors on the road live on fixed incomes.