MAGNOLIA SPRINGS — The Magnolia Springs Town Council is considering lowering the speed limit on Magnolia Springs Highway within the town’s limits.

Council member Bob Holk originally suggested driving the speed limit on that section of roadway from 35 to 25 miles-per-hour, but the council later decided to study dropping it to 30 miles-per-hour.

Holk recommended the council begin studying the drop in speed on Magnolia Springs Highway between Village Green Drive on the town’s south side to U.S. Highway 98.

Following Holk’s initial recommendation of dropping the limit to 25, council member Dotty Johnson expressed concerns that people would start driving street-legal golf carts on the busy roadway.

“I am against it because as I understand is that these golf carts that are street ready can drive on anything with a speed limit at or below 25 miles an hour, and I don’t want golf carts going across that bridge because I think that would be asking for problems,” Johnson said.

Work — including speed tables, crosswalks and new sidewalks — is already under way to make the windy roadway safer for motorists and pedestrians.

Holk said concerns about golf cart traffic were enough for him to reconsider his original idea.

“I certainly hadn’t thought about that before, and I also wouldn’t want to have those kinds of vehicles out there on that road,” Holk said. “Regardless of what we do — 25 or 30 miles-an-hour — I think we should go ahead and have our legal council study what we need to do to get the speed limit changed.”

Holk said the decision to lower the speed limit is entirely up to the council.

“We’ve talked to the county and they have said it is strictly our call,” Holk said.

In other business;

Council member Donna Esslinger expressed interesting in forming a committee to place a ceremony to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the town being formed. The 10-year anniversary will be next June.

“I think we definitely need to celebrate that occasion,” Esslinger said. “Ten years is a nice number and it would be nice to celebrate it in such a way to include all the people of Magnolia Springs.”