Last August, spokeswoman Gillean Smith said developer Roy Carroll might complete the unfinished Winding Creek Drive in 2010 "when demand for lots increases in the area."
She added, "We are highly motivated to make this connection because it makes economic sense to open up another marketing window for the company. And it helps people. It's a win-win situation. We are not uncaring. As far as the exact date, it's not tomorrow. The economy right now does play a factor. Are we going to wait 10 years?"
Carroll is responsible for completing the road as part of the Bennington Village subdivision that one of his companies built. The incomplete road cuts off the adjacent Wood Creek subdivision, which is being built by DR Horton. The unfinished state of the road adds two to three minutes for emergency responders from a new city fire station on Mount Hope Church Road.
"Three minutes may not sound like a lot," resident Jason Jordan told YES! Weekly in August, "but when someone is having a heart attack and needs a defibrillator or someone is drowning in our pool and choking on water, three minutes is a lifetime. Roy Carroll made a promise to complete that road, and I think he needs to get it done."
Then-Mayor Yvonne Johnson indicated at the time that the project was a matter of urgency for the council.
"To a person, we would be asking him to get it done," she said at the time. "I appreciate Roy. I like Roy. I want him to get this done."
Of course, Johnson is in no longer in any position to exert pressure on Carroll, one of her political benefactors, to get the job done. She was defeated by Bill Knight in her mayoral race last year.
The latest update — shocked! shocked! shocked! — is that absolutely nothing has been done.
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