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Our response: Traffic reports prepared by the developer were inaccurate, and severely underestimated the impacts to residents. The traffic study prepared by the developer was incomplete. Specifically, the developer stated, and the Selectmen parroted, that the traffic associated with the proposed development would be similar, if not better than, traffic generated by 88-single family homes. In fact, during Town Meeting, Selectmen Chair William Heitin stated that 88 single family homes would result in more traffic than the proposed rezoning (personal observation from watching tape of Town Meeting). These statements are directly contrary to the Town’s own consultant’s report, which states that the alternative of 88 single family homes would result in weekday morning peak vehicles of 72, and evening number of vehicles of 96, while the proposed senior living would result in morning peak of 111 vehicles, and an evening peak of 126 vehicles. This does not include the vehicles of 300 employees to and from work on a daily basis. It also does not include delivery vehicles.
The developer also claimed that "Motor vehicle crash data for the study area intersections and roadways were obtained from the Sharon Police Department for the research periods 2003 through 2005, the most recent three-year period for which data is available. Crash data was also obtained from the Town of Stoughton Police Department, which responded to crashes at the Bay Road intersections with Chemung Street and Plain Street" (excerpt from Brickstone’s traffic report). Residents of Stoughton repeatedly told the developer and the Selectmen that the Stoughton Police Department were the first responders to Bay Road from Plain Street south to the Easton border, yet the developer never included the relevant accident data in its reports.
The fact that the developer never obtained the pertinent traffic data, and continued to misrepresent these data to the residents, was a material misrepresentation on which the residents relied when they voted.