Thank You for Your Amazing Input!
Here are the preliminary results
Thank you for participating in our Second Annual Community Meeting on May 30, 2024. We know more than 90 people attended and we are so grateful for every single one of you!
We haven’t had time to do an exhaustive review of the information you all shared, but we wanted to give you a glimpse of all the data that came out of our meeting.
What do you love most about Saxapahaw?
Where are the places and spaces you connect to in Saxapahaw?
These are roughly in order of frequency with trails and the village center showing up on every activity sheet we collected.
Trails
Village Center (Ballroom to Gen Store and everything in between)
Sellers Bldg / Post Office / Culture Mill
Saturdays in Sax / The Hill
Hawbridge School (Upper and Lower)
Lake Access / Boy Scout Cabin
Community Garden (Sax Patch)
Amphitheater
The Bridge / Gym / Yoga
Dog Park
Mote's Creek
Farm Loop
Campground
Haw Village
B Everett Jordan Elementary School
Saxapahaw Village Kids Preschool
Ballfield
Farms
Methodist Church
Terra Stay
Timberlake
What would make is easier for you to connect to the places and spaces you love in Saxapahaw?
Across the board, you all told us we need safer access to the places and spaces we love.
Sidewalks:
from Haw Village to the Village
through the Village
from the Village to BEJ Elementary School
up Moore's Chapel Cemetery Rd at least to the Campground
from the Village to Timberlake
Crosswalks:
improve safety of crosswalk at Hawbridge/General Store
add crosswalks at Paperhand
add crosswalk for better access to The Hill / Post Office
add crosswalk across Church Rd toward Campground
Bike Lanes:
from 54 to 87
up Sweps-Sax Rd
Improve entrance/exit to/from Island Park
Safer way to cross river on foot
Add roundabout in front of Paperhand
Traffic calming measures everywhere!
Better School Zone markings for Hawbridge
Better signage coming into the Village (from all directions)
Public Parking / Parking Deck
Improve handicap accessibility
Pedestrian bridge over Mote's Creek on Sax-Beth Ch Rd
A directory for visitors
Adding a trail from the Boy Scout Cabin to the Farm Loop / Motes Creek
The Saxapahaw Forward board will be meeting on June 10th to further review this data and begin planning our next steps. Thank you again for your participation! We raised over $600 at the Community Meeting – a step in the right direction! We are truly grateful for your support.
