SHILLONG: The plan of the Meghalaya Government to set up an embarkation and disembarkation point at Khyndailad has caught the attention of many as OB Shopping Mall has now constructed a retaining wall on the same location.

However, Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh has clarified that her department has allowed OB Shopping mall to construct a retaining wall for the safety of the building since the structure has been constructed on a tight slope of land.

According to Lyngdoh, the department together with OB Shopping mall are working on merging of ideas to ensure that the place is made beautiful.

Asked if the OB Shopping Mall had encroached on the land, Lyngdoh stated on Monday that the land would remain to be a public place and there was no way that OB Shopping Mall would encroach on the land.

Earlier, the Government had wanted to construct a bus bay at the location but the later the idea was cancelled as the land had a tight slop and it was risky for buses to be parked there.

Interestingly, there was also a plan of constructing a toilet in the same place and now Government would revise the proposal since earlier a toilet was included.

The work for the project has been kept in abeyance at the moment. Work will resume after the state is relieved from the restrictions of the model code of conduct due to the Lok Sabha elections.

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This conceptual plan of Talus Parcels 7-9 shows dozens of retaining walls that are recommended for the project. Talus residents are skeptical of the plans for Parcel 7, which would require one retaining wall that is almost 800-feet long and 48-feet high at its highest point.

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Dozens of Talus residents and concerned citizens filled Issaquah City Council chambers Tuesday night for a meeting of the Urban Village Development Commission regarding three parcels in the mountainside village.

Perhaps with the tragedy in Oso fresh on their minds, they are concerned about the number of retaining walls necessary to develop the steep slope, which is one of the last undeveloped pieces of the Talus urban village.

Lisa Milkowski, who lives in Talus, suggested the commission take a look on YouTube at Issaquah/Talus mudslide from three years ago. It is a scary video.

There is risk, Milkowski said.

Milkowski said as a homeowner she does not want to be responsible for a wall of the magnitude of the one proposed on the east side of Parcel 7. That proposed retaining wall is almost 800-feet long and 48-feet high at its highest point. Ryan Kohlman, speaking on behalf of the applicant, Triad Associates, said the homeowners association in Talus would own and maintain all the retaining walls unless a sub-HOA is created.

Geo-technical engineer Carolyn Decker acknowledged the very steep slopes of the project, but said they can build a very stable, safe wall.

The catch is these walls have a 50-year life span. She said the big wall proposed for Parcel 7 would be founded on bedrock.

The question remained, who is going to maintain these walls and put money aside to replace it in 50 years? Talus does have a master homeowners association, but its not unheard of for subdivisions within the village to have their own HOA.

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A man whose record stems back from 2010 as a violent sex offender was arrested after being at the Shining Star Family Center on Williamson Road. According to the Virginia State Police sex offender registry,

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