40. Community Need Centerville High School houses more than 3,000 students and staff members. It is only served by one major arterial roadway, East Franklin Street, which has an average annual daily traffic count of 6,300 vehicles.

The Centerville School Safety Access - Dimco Way Extension project would increase public safety access to the High School and reduce vehicular traffic. This extension would relieve congestion in the high school’s parking lot; create a safer point of access for our students, staff, and community; increase pedestrian safety; and provide a secondary link from our campus to a major arterial road.

Additionally, by providing this secondary access to a major arterial road, it is expected to relieve vehicular traffic on East Franklin Street. East Franklin Street backs up during times of school arrival and dismissal, creating a bottleneck in the City’s transportation system such that vehicles at the intersections of Main Street at East Franklin and Clyo at East Franklin experience a significant delay. This new access is expected to remove approximately half the vehicles from the East Franklin School entrance/exit, significantly reducing the delay.

The Centerville School District has partnered with the City of Centerville to conduct this School Safety Access Project. The school has agreed to dedicate the necessary permanent and temporary Right-of-Way to conduct the approximately 2,000-foot roadway extension. This extension would ultimately provide a second access point for the school on a major arterial roadway, Clyo Road. The City has additionally committed funds to conduct a future widening of Clyo Road with intersection improvements to handle the additional vehicular traffic.