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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Fresno County residents are seeing accrued postulation owed to caller developments successful Clovis.
The Dry Creek Preserve is location to residents northbound of Nees Avenue and southbound of Shepherd Avenue, surrounded by the City of Clovis.
It's besides location to the family-owned 3 Oaks Vineyard since 2007.
Its owner, Steve Shoemaker, says helium is feeling the effects of the accrued postulation connected Sunnyside Avenue.
"I spell to the beforehand of the property, and it stinks retired there. It smells. There's truthful overmuch traffic. And truthful I support planting much and much vines to effort to cleanable the air, truthful to speak," Shoemaker said.
He says the postulation up and down Sunnyside is simply a origin for interest for his customers.
"People, erstwhile they crook to travel successful here, they astir get rear-ended oregon going out. They astir get T-boned due to the fact that radical are flying down this road. And if idiosyncratic pulls out, past each they bash is honk their horns and velocity up and tailgate them each the mode down the road," Shoemaker said.
Shoemaker says Sunnyside was ne'er meant to beryllium a main road.
"This is simply a residential area, and it's intended to beryllium that way. And we've got radical that are flying done here. And I inactive don't recognize the request to usage Sunnyside arsenic a large thoroughfare erstwhile we've got 2 of them, eastbound and west," Shoemaker said.
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig says the enlargement of Clovis implicit the past 10 years is impacting Sunnyside Avenue.
"You've got agrarian residential, but stacked astir it, you've got dense developments that person gone successful and virtually thousands of residents that are trying to get from location to enactment and they're utilizing the tiny region road," Magsig said.
County leaders are looking astatine ways to marque the roads safer.
"We're looking astatine a full big of postulation calming devices. I'm adjacent unfastened to restricting crook movements connected definite region roads, whether it beryllium lone close retired truthful radical can't crook near and close retired of immoderate of these roadways that would truly restrict the magnitude of postulation that's traveling connected it," Magsig said.
Magsig says helium is moving with the City of Clovis to redirect postulation to main streets similar Shepherd, Clovis and Fowler Avenue to alteration postulation connected Sunnyside.
