Homewood council adopts multiple traffic and parking ordinances including compact-car spaces at Patriot Park and new crosswalks

The Homewood City Council on Monday approved a package of traffic and parking measures aimed at regulating parking adjacent to Patriot Park, replacing a loading zone in the Edgewood Business District with a no-parking zone, and installing/adjusting crosswalks at the Oxmoor Road-Saint Charles Street intersection.

An ordinance to designate two compact-vehicle-only spaces adjacent to Patriot Park passed unanimously (ordinance 2949). City staffreading the ordinance directed the chief of police to erect signs designating the spaces and warned that violations would be misdemeanors punishable under the city's code. The ordinance text requires compact-vehicle signage and provides for enforcement under the city code.

Councilors also approved a no-parking zone to replace a loading zone along Saint Charles Street and a companion ordinance to install pedestrian crosswalks across Oxmoor Road and across Saint Charles Street on the north side of that intersection (adopted as ordinance 29 51 for the crosswalks). Committee reports indicated both items were recommended by Public Safety (committee vote 5-0) before the council adopted the ordinances by unanimous consent.

Council members briefly clarified the street-side references during the reading of the Saint Charles/Stewart no-parking ordinance to ensure the written exhibit matched the signage and map on the dais.

All of the ordinances passed on unanimous votes following committee reports recommending approval; the council recorded the crosswalk ordinance as ordinance number 29 51. The measures authorize the chief of police to install necessary pavement markings and signs at the locations described in the ordinance exhibits.