The City of Greensboro has big plans for improving the 2.3-mile stretch of Randleman Road between I-40 and I-85 and other sections of the road – by making a vast number of changes.
And, if you want to offer your input on the best ways to upgrade the corridor, you have two final chances to do so.
The City of Greensboro is holding two “Public Engagement Events” regarding its Randleman Road Corridor Plan. The city is seeking public input two last times as part of the final stages of the second phase of the plan. To that end, the Greensboro Planning Department staff is holding two drop-in sessions for those interested in the project.
The sessions will be at New Goshen United Methodist Church at 3300 Randleman Road on Tuesday, Sept. 10 and Wednesday, Sept. 11. Both events will run from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. You can drop by anytime during those hours on either day to see a draft of how the city plans to improve the corridor and surrounding areas.
City planning staff will be all ears when it comes to your advice, and they’ll also provide details on how the plan will be implemented and answer questions regarding the plan.
Earlier this summer, city planning staff held a picnic for residents who wanted to share their advice about what the future of the Randleman Road corridor should entail. The city held another input meeting in March and has been putting together the plan for much of 2024.
Randleman Road is a focus for the city because it is “a significant entrance into Greensboro [and] is home to a diverse array of commercial businesses surrounded by established neighborhoods.”
City officials also note that the road is a “key transportation route” for Greensboro.
Some major concerns on the table are traffic safety, a lack of proper lighting making business owners feel unsafe, and abandoned and unattractive buildings.
The new plan is wide-ranging and includes things like providing “aesthetically pleasing elements such as plantings, public art, and wayfinding tools.”
Some other likely changes include updating the timing of traffic signals, installing more “bike and pedestrian facilities” and upgrading signage and gardens.
City planners also intend to use a trail network to connect Randleman Road to various nearby neighborhoods as well as improve conditions for bicycle riders, and, “where feasible, widen sidewalks to accommodate bicycles and/or implement bicycle lanes as future conditions permit and the community supports the change.”
The City of Greensboro is also planning to use new “Code Compliance software” to track and enforce code violations by repeat offenders.
The draft plan calls for the city to increase funding for – and expand programs for – the demolition of abandoned and dilapidated buildings along the corridor.
Incentives will be used to increase retail recruitment to the area, and the city will also implement “strategies to foster reinvestment on vacant and underutilized land to keep up with changing markets and provide goods and services to area residents.”
You may also see some attention directed to the area by “short-term pop-up events” in public spaces that are made available for event rental.
Other parts of the draft plan include the following:
- Install additional LED street lights in areas without sufficient coverage.
- Work with private parking lot owners to help brighten up particularly dark lots.
- Install license plate readers in targeted areas that are identified through a comprehensive crime rate analysis.
- Work more closely with commercial landowners and their private security firms for enhanced communication sharing and collaborative remediation of safety issues.
- Work with landowners to install prohibitive signage on parcels, and within parking lots – such as Trespassing Letters of Intent, No Littering, Parking Lot Closing Hours, etc.
- Incorporate and encourage public art opportunities within new developments or on city-owned land.
- Consider strategic purchases of land to add public spaces to the corridor.
- Develop wayfinding and signage infrastructure that directs visitors and residents to historical resources, prominent businesses and recreational space.
- Increase fines or other financial penalties for illegal truck parking.
- Work with public health partners in the local area to explore the possibility of introducing more health institutions along Randleman Road.
- Coordinate with the Guilford County Division of Public Health to ensure that temporary outdoor vendors adhere to food safety guidelines.
If anyone has questions about the plans for the corridor or the two September events, they can visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/RandlemanRoad or contact Kelly Larkins by calling 336-412-5739.
Thanks for the chuckle! Citizen input…nah!
License plate readers won’t help with the many cars driving around the city with either no tags at all or pasted inside the back windows.
I see this almost every day.
(This goes for the red light cameras they are talking about reinstalling next year.)
The only purpose cameras & readers serve in this location is to read our stolen license plates, counterfeit paper tags & to harass the hard working folks who have legitimate tags. Liberals spending our money to implement something that will only cost more money and serve no real purpose.
Exactly like the whole public health idea. The city and county are afraid to address the real problem for fear of sounding “racist.” Well boys & girls, it’s high time you stop being afraid of the truth and actually try enforcing the laws rather than let the thugs run the streets. Your socialist Utopia is never going to happen, so please stop spending our money trying to build one. Here’s an idea: Give us our money back & let us take care of the problem without interference. I can guarantee you the armed citizens can handle it better than the police the way the politicians tie their hands at every turn nowadays. Let us have free reign in there for about 24 months & it will look like Disneyland. You run a city by dealing with problems, not creating them. The kinder-gentler feel good approach isn’t working. Bring a bigger hammer! Look at every democratic controlled cesspool in America. Learn from their mistakes. The mess you mentioned isn’t a way to fix anything but elections and the bank accounts of the folks supplying labor & materials to build it. It will be destroyed again within 4 years.
All this is just cover to continue the agenda of the Left.
So they want to install ALPRs on Randleman Road (Automatic License Plate Readers). Within 5 years they’ll be everywhere. Big Brother really will be watching.
And they want to make Randleman Road more “bike and pedestrian friendly”. That’s LeftSpeak for choking the road with bike lanes and installing Road Ragers like speed humps and unused pedestrian crossings. These measures will do nothing but frustrate and annoy motorists (who are the customers of these businessess) and drastically reduce the motor vehicle carrying capacity of the road.
It’ll kill the street, and make it even more desolate and derelict. And they’ll wonder why….
If our leaders and planners had brains they’d ponder why High Point Road became such a commercial success back in the day. It was very wide, with a huge vehicle carrying capacity, relatively few stoplights, and loads of free parking everywhere. Accessibility was seamless, swift and easy – the opposite of what they’re trying to do to Randleman Road.
We are led by fools – or cynical anti-car activists. Or both.
Just get rid of the riff raff.
Bingo Fedup! That will be an impossible task. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.
. . . said hitler ? careful !
They just want to waste some taxpayers money and jack up the (Property) Extortion Tax.This to force out property owners.
Same type comments were made about the Gate City Blvd. Plan. I grew up in Hillsdale Park and my parents still live in that neighborhood. Their home value went from 65k to 200k. Our inner city neighborhoods need to be revitalized to the benefit of everyone
Not with my hard working Christian dollars
Big city. I know you read this What’s your solution to the problems on Randleman Road. You always seem to have the answer. What say you
many closed/abandoned businesses on that stretch – covid casualties?
No, Bidenomics casualties.
What a waste. There always will be crime, murder, homeless, empty dilapidated buildings and closed businesses on Randleman Rd. It’s always been that way. Seems like the new sidewalks, trees, etc will be a better place for the many homeless already there. Randleman Rd has always been the road to nowhere and always will be. It’s too far away from Toyota to experience any influence from that area.
‘the road to nowhere’ ! randleman ! liberty ! RICHARD PETTY ! recant !
You never see these projects anywhere but the east side. What about the rest of us, the majority of the taxpayers