Westover Acres residents press City of West Columbia to revisit stop signs, short-term rentals and safety measures

Terry Mosley, a West Columbia resident, told the mayor and city council that stop signs installed last October in the Westover Acres neighborhood have caused driveway blockages and division among neighbors and that the process used to install them was based on inaccurate claims.

"You have one of the stop signs that's three or four feet from one of these individual's driveway, and in the morning and in the afternoon, there's four or five cars deep. She could not get out of her driveway if she had to," Mosley said during the meeting's public comment period. She also said a requester had claimed on email and in a community meeting that pets had been hit and people hospitalized — claims she said were not true.

The council discussed next steps and several council members asked staff to request that the South Carolina…