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Highland CC Update: New Traffic Plan, Demolition Delayed

Concerns about traffic were the main reason Ross Commissioners denied a preliminary plan for townhouses and single family homes on the grounds of the former Highland Country Club.

Limerick Land Partners, the developer who hopes to build 167 townhouses and 134 single family homes on the grounds of the former Highland Country Club, is working on a new traffic plan for the roads that surround the property.

Concerns about traffic were the main reason Ross Commissioners denied the developers preliminary plans on May 6.


According to Ross Township solicitor Bonnie Brimmeier, the developer is now proposing to eliminate an entrance at the intersection of Highland and Cornell Avenues, and add an entrance closer to the intersection of Highland and Wellington Drive. 

Additionally, stop signs would be added near the entrance off of Gass Road, but the biggest traffic improvements would come not in Ross, but in West View

Brimmeier said the developer is proposing an additional turn lane and other improvements at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Perry Highway in West View.

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The proposed traffic plans were revealed during a status conference before Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph James, who was assigned to hear the developer's appeal of the Ross Commissioners' decision to reject their preliminary plans.

Demolition Delayed

While the traffic plans are finalized, a final decision by Judge James is likely two months away said Brimmeier, and that will delay any demolition of the former Highland Country Club.

"A condition of the sale of the property was approval of a Planned Residential Development (PRD)," said Brimmeier. "Without that approval, the property remains under the control of the bankruptcy court, and nothing can be done."

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