A resident told the City Council on Aug. 6 that new curbside parking on Kala has created a blind intersection at Emery Street and asked the city to consider a 4‑way stop to prevent crashes.

The speaker, who provided a map to city staff, said that recent parking striping requires drivers to pull partly into the intersection to see oncoming traffic and that vehicle speeds have increased since the striping. “It would be a wise decision before an accident happened or somebody gets hurt, to consider putting in a 4 way stop there,” the resident said.

City Manager Tyler Fultz said staff would look into the location and report back to the council. No formal traffic-calming action or street‑engineering decision was made at the meeting; the request was handled as a public‑safety service inquiry and routed to staff for further analysis, including sight‑distance measurements and coordination with traffic engineering protocols.

Residents and council members frequently raised bus-stop maintenance and related right-of-way issues earlier in the meeting; council and staff indicated they will coordinate with the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) on bus-stop cleanup and any infrastructure such as electrical boxes that affect sight lines.