Tuesday, May 25, 1999
Highway vote stalled by open-meetings complaint
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS — A transportation advisory committee has put off its vote on whether to approve a $56 million highway project in southeast Ohio after complaints that the panel did not follow the open-meetings law when it deliberated the matter.
Under an agreement filed Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, the Transportation Review and Advisory Committee (TRAC) will not vote on the highway until it conducts another public meeting with proper notice. The vote had been scheduled for Wednesday.
The project is designed to help complete the U.S. 33 corridor from Columbus to the Ohio River near Pomeroy.
A group known as the Coalition Against Superfluous Highways wants the TRAC, an agency of the Ohio Department of Transportation, to scrap plans for a 12-mile stretch in Athens and Meigs counties.
An additional 14-mile stretch would connect the highway with the Ravenswood, W.Va., bridge over the Ohio River.
The opponents say the new highway is unnecessary because it will run parallel to existing U.S. 33.
But backers say the highway is needed to spur economic development in one of the state's poorest areas.
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