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Select Board adopts revisions to traffic rules, tightens car-carrier and parking rules
Summary
The Select Board adopted several updates to the Town of Danvers traffic rules and orders, including housekeeping corrections, a new restriction on car carriers parking in travel lanes, and reorganized parking guidance for employee permit areas downtown.
Aaron Henry, director of land use and community services, returned with a red-line revision of the town's traffic rules and orders previously previewed for the board. The packet added an appendix table listing state and local jurisdiction roads and clarified several definitions and penalty sections.
Board members and staff discussed a proposed new section to prohibit car carriers from parking within travel or breakdown lanes in public ways; language was revised with input from the police lieutenant and adopted by motion. Members asked whether fines could be increased for bicycle violations; staff and police advised that many traffic penalties are set by state law (Mass. Gen. Laws chapter 90) and local adjustments are limited.
The board also reviewed proposed changes to downtown parking: converting some "all-day" public parking spaces to employee-permit all-day spaces, capping permits per business (staff discussed a proposed cap of 5 per business), and clarifying overnight parking rules. Members asked staff to prepare implementation steps, a transition plan (notification and flyer period), and enforcement details.
The board voted to adopt housekeeping edits, the car-carrier parking restriction language, and insertion of apprenticeship-related language in the regulations. Staff will return with refined parking-permit counts and enforcement plans.
