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Clayton aldermen table parking ordinance, direct staff to draft plan removing four Gay Avenue spaces and run speed study
Summary
After engineers recommended removing up to 10 parking spaces to meet sight-distance standards, residents opposed large-scale removals. The board voted unanimously to table the ordinance and asked staff to prepare a revised bill to remove four spaces and to collect traffic-speed and volume data.
Clayton aldermen on Feb. 25 paused consideration of a staff-drafted ordinance that would change parking on Gay Avenue near University Drive and directed staff to prepare a revised ordinance removing four parking spaces and to run a speed and traffic study of the street.
City engineers told the board that intersection and driveway sight-distance standards are not currently being met at University Drive and at a north driveway for a recently completed townhouse development on Gay Avenue. Engineering calculations presented at the meeting showed that fully meeting intersection sight-distance standards for the posted 25 mph speed limit would require removing roughly 5 parking spaces…
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