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Committee forwards ordinance to establish downtown Jonesboro truck route
Summary
The Jonesboro Public Works Committee recommended Ordinance 25-016 to the full City Council to create an alternate commercial truck route that would route nonlocal large commercial trucks away from Main, Church and Union streets between Highland Drive and Johnson Avenue; the measure will go through three readings over the coming weeks.
The Jonesboro Public Works Committee voted to recommend Ordinance 25-016, an ordinance to establish an alternate commercial truck route routing nonlocal large commercial trucks away from Main, Church and Union streets between Highland Drive and Johnson Avenue, forwarding the measure to the full City Council for formal readings.
Committee members said the ordinance aims to reduce conflicts between large commercial trucks and pedestrians and to preserve the downtown streetscape. The draft ordinance references City of Jonesboro Ordinance 19-048 and Arkansas Code Annotated provisions defining commercial truck classifications (cited in the draft as ACA 27-14-601(a)(3)). The draft also includes a fine schedule listed in the ordinance text.
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