Preferred Corridor Selected
The Delaware County Engineer’s Office, following months of public discussion and technical study, has selected the Preferred Corridor for the Sawmill Parkway Extension (SPE). The Preferred Corridor parallels Liberty Road in Liberty Township, going north from the intersection of Home Road and the existing Sawmill Parkway, before moving west to link with South Section Line Road.
The Preferred Corridor is a blend of the four preliminary corridors made public last September and closely studied by the SPE Advisory Council, the SPE Stakeholder Group and the general public. An Open House to discuss the corridors resulted in hundreds of comments received via surveys and e-mail. Based on that public input, it was decided to break each of the four corridors into logical segments (for example, segments of each corridor between Hyatts Road and Clark Shaw Road) because the public saw pros and cons to individual portions of each corridor. All of the segments were then matched, providing nine “hybrid” corridors in addition to the original four.
A workshop was conducted to evaluate each of these 13 possible corridors based upon criteria originally developed by the SPE’s Advisory Council and Stakeholder Group. The criteria, which can be found on the Corridor Scorecard, were refined and then applied to each corridor to provide an evaluation of each one. Priority was given to important concerns, such as reducing the number of impacted homes and businesses.
The highest rated corridors were then studied further by the Engineer’s Office, which chose the Preferred Corridor. The Engineer’s Office strongly believes that the Preferred Corridor would maintain the anticipated land use described in the Liberty Township Comprehensive Plan if that remains the desire of the local residents. It is important to remember that the corridor is 1,000-feet wide. The alignment – where the SPE would actually go – will be about 200-feet wide. Thus, it is possible that a structure that appears to be within the corridor may not be directly impacted by the alignment.
The Engineer’s Office greatly appreciates the public input for the project and wants citizens to remain engaged as the SPE moves forward. Your comments can be sent via the Submit Comments link on this website. On the following links you will find the map of the Preferred Corridor, a Corridor Scorecard that evaluates the corridors, and a report on the Preferred Corridor Selection Process.
Report on the Preferred Corridor Selection Process
Report Exhibits
Exhibit 3 - Criteria Weighting Form
Exhibit 4 - Corridors & Corridor Segments
Exhibit 5 - Evaluation of Alternatives Form