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Ordinance committee votes to add long list of existing stop signs to the city code
Summary
Committee on Ordinances approved including numerous existing stop signs in the municipal stop-sign ordinance after the administration reported many were not codified.
The Committee on Ordinances and Enrolled Bills voted March 25 to include a long list of existing stop-sign locations in the city’s stop-sign ordinance after staff reported those signs were already installed but not yet codified.
Committee members read a list of intersections into the record and moved to approve the list “as advertised.” The motion passed on a voice vote and the committee directed the law department to draft the formal ordinance language for a first reading.
Why it matters: The action brings the written municipal code into alignment with traffic-control conditions in the field, reducing legal ambiguity about which intersections are required to carry stop signs and helping to support enforcement and traffic safety work.
The list read into the record included intersections across the city (for example, Bluegrass Circle at Tremont Street; Davis Street at Tremont Street; Bow Street at High Street; East Broadway at Washington Street; Forest Street at Ware Street; Williams Ave at Hart Street, among many others). A formal ordinance will be prepared by the law department so the additions can proceed through the city’s ordinance process.
