RTC is seeking public comment on the ongoing proposal to design a safer Lemmon Drive.

The Lemmon Drive Traffic and Resiliency Project meeting was held on Wednesday - the second time they've held this meeting besides pop-ups.  

Josh Maceachern, the Public Information Officer for RTC Washoe says, "What we want always, is a public that is engaged and informed to come at us, give us their questions we reiterate the process we took a ton of comments from the first public meeting."

During public comment, these are some of the things that were said by the community:

"We love seeing the wildlife and the birds out here and to get to that lake there's really no easy access to go off into that area, so I am absolutely thrilled, and whatever I can do to support this project and this community I will."

"What they should do is not do this project, it's ridiculous it's expensive and it's going to ruin this natural habitat and the natural cleansing of the water."

According to RTC, the current proposal realigns Lemmon Drive from Fleetwood Drive to Ramsey Way above the 100-year flood plan to help increase safety and connectivity in the area.

The proposed Lemmon Drive will have two lanes of traffic, one in each direction, north of Palace Drive. 

Lemmon Drive between Fleetwood Drive and Patrician Drive will increase to two lanes in each direction to improve traffic operations.

An elevated roadway to mitigate potential flooding impacts on the transportation network while allowing reliable access by residents and emergency services during weather events.

The project will also be a $50 million investment into the community.

RTC also says this project won't be touching Swan Lake, which was a concern during this meeting.

Maceachern says "We're not actually touching Swan Lake so this realignment puts it on the berm near Swan Lake, the flood mitigation pacts of Swan Lake are going to be the same the retention basins are going to be the same nothing changes really aside from  the fact the road will be realigned  at a higher flood elevation so that it doesn't get impacted in case of a major weather event." 

Construction could begin as early as 2026. If you would like to give your input you can click the link here.