The Detroit News. John M. Galloway Traffic is becoming a nightmare in Howell as sprawl reaches into Livingston County.
Grand River is the communities main thoroughfare and is often congested.
Officials predict that 65,000 people will move into the county by 2020, raising the county population to about 219,000, according to the Livingston County Planning Department. That translates into almost a 50-percent increase. Rural townships will experience most of the population growth while the county's two cities and two villages will face increasing demands on already crowded roads, said Coy Vaughn, the assistant director at the Planning Department. You may see those populated areas expand their boundaries to capture the growth. The Planning Department is trying to devise plans to funnel more of the growth into the already populated areas, Vaughn said.