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Votes at a glance: Chelsea Traffic & Parking Commission, September 2025
Summary
The commission recorded several formal actions including tabling Article 13 amendments, denying one speed-hump request, approving Vision Zero pilot paint treatments, approving a Second Street RRFB crosswalk, creating a veteran-designated parking spot, confirming a visitor-pass revocation and approving one handicap sign reinstatement.
The Chelsea Traffic and Parking Commission recorded the following actions during its September 2025 meeting. (Where a roll-call tally was not read into the record, the transcript records only that motions were made, seconded and carried.)
• Article 13 (citywide parking program): Motion to table to next meeting for revised text and improved public notice — outcome: tabled.
• Pine Street speed-hump request: Motion to table pending fire-department review of impact on apparatus/response times — outcome: tabled.
• 100 Stockton (Creekside Commons) speed-hump request: Motion to deny on engineering/safety grounds — outcome: denied.
• 140 Essex Street speed-hump request (near bus stop): Motion to table to next month to obtain fire-department input and consider alternative designs — outcome: tabled.
• Stop sign: Request to install a stop sign on Central Avenue at Shamet Street (eastbound) — motion to approve — outcome: approved.
• Handicap placard / sign at 8 Reynolds Ave (Rafael Manjiva): Motion to approve reinstatement pending proper paperwork — outcome: approved.
• Handicap application for 105 Garfield Ave (Santos Romero): Motion to table for application clarification — outcome: tabled.
• Veteran parking designation: Approve creation of new legal parking space and designation for veteran plates; staff to remove buried curbing to create a legal spot — outcome: approved.
• Appeal of revocation (visitor pass): Petitioner did not appear; commission confirmed the clerk’s revocation — outcome: affirmed.
• Vision Zero tactical demonstrations (Washington & Crescent; Webster & Summit): Approve temporary painted treatments and pre/post speed studies — outcome: approved.
• Second Street crosswalk and rectangular rapid-flashing beacon (MBTA coordination): Motion to approve crosswalk and RRFB and to move MBTA stop — outcome: approved.
Motions were seconded and carried orally; the transcript does not include complete roll-call vote tallies for these items. Commission staff were assigned follow-up tasks on outreach for Article 13, fire-department coordination on speed-hump alternatives, MBTA coordination for the Second Street crosswalk and evaluation plans for the Vision Zero pilots.
