Indian Trail Planning To Take Control Of Town Roads
INDIANΒ TRAIL, NC — Not many love their town like Indian Trail mayor, David Cohn.
“I’m proud to live in Indian Trail and I’m proud to say I’m from Indian Trail,” said Cohn.
Town pride led officials to create a five year plan to take over residential streets. Paving and patching their own roads instead of waiting for the state.
“It’ll be a long process and before we take any of the roads, the state has to pave those roads and bring them up to our standards so that we take them,” said town manager, Mike McLaurin.
The town already started mowing it’s own grass along Highway 74. McLaurin said NCDOT was cutting it a couple of times per year. Now, the town is cutting it a couple of times per month.
“We also mow other rights of way of NCDOT roads. Why? Because it’s important to our citizens that their town looks good,” explained McLaurin.
From a tiny town of 2,500 in the early 90s, to 43,000, it’s been a long road of growth for the largest municipality in Union County.
“If you think about the hundreds of towns that we have in North Carolina, and we’re the 27th largest, you wouldn’t think of it mainly because we don’t have that downtown,” Cohn said.
Mayor Cohn says a downtown is just what his growing town needs. They plan to build it up in the coming years right along Indian Trail Road. Hoping to keep tax revenue inside the town.
“We need to keep the money in Indian Trail. A lot of people, if they go to a white tablecloth restaurant, they have to go somewhere else,” Cohn explained.
