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Monday, May 02, 2005

Next phase of U.S. 50 widening coming

I guess this is in anticipation of the people that are going to be swarming to buy the $250,000 - $400,000 houses that are being built here. In this article it states “Traffic studies have shown about 10,000 cars a day coming into Fallon at Leeteville Junction. That is up from about 6,600 in 1994. The study estimates Churchill County's population will jump to 38,000 by 2010 and to 50,000 by 2020, bringing more vehicles.”
According to a TECHNICAL REPORT UCED 2002-03/11 “ESTIMATION OF ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND LINKAGES OF CHURCHILL COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ON THE CHURCHILL COUNTY ECONOMY” from the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO
Population for Churchill County increased from 17,938 in 1990 to 23,982 in 2000 another report has it estimated at 26,247. My question on this is what jobs are being created to support the increased population estimates or is this increase in population coming from 10-34,000 supposed California retirees that want to live here in Churchill County. If the population is to increase that much then we need to in crease all of the services that will be provided not just a bigger road. The hospital will have to be increased in size along with other similar types of services. Is there a plan to expand city services? Water, sanitation, police/sheriff & fire departments will all need to be expanded. With the influx of retirees will that affect the property taxes of those who already own homes like it has those in Washoe Valley. There is an election for City Counsel up coming but I hear nothing from the current candidates on this subject. I guess they will just wait till the last minute and pay through the nose for it instead of using foresight and planning. I may be incorrect on this and it may have been discussed but I do not think the general population of the county knows of it. Ok I am done ranting till next time.

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