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Resident asks Fort Thomas council to remove a parking stall to improve sightlines at busy intersection
Summary
A neighborhood resident urged the Fort Thomas City Council to remove a single parking space near Lomeli/Longleaf to restore sightlines for roughly 50 homes; council agreed to test a restripe and measure potential safety gains before making the change permanent.
A resident told the Fort Thomas City Council that one parking space at the corner near Walkman Horse Insurance Agency creates a traffic-visibility hazard for about 50 nearby households and asked the council to remove the stall to improve sightlines.
The resident said drivers exiting Lomeli must sometimes pull into traffic or block the northbound lane to see past a car parked in the last space at the corner. “By removing one single parking space over 50 families…they would be able to exit the neighborhood safely,” the resident said during the public-comment period.
Council members acknowledged similar sightline issues at other avenue intersections and weighed the trade-offs between safety and downtown parking supply. Staff cited a count of 76 parking spaces on Fort Thomas Avenue between the city building and Goblins and an additional 19 near St. Andrews, and several council members said losing one stall would not materially harm business parking.
Rather than immediately remove the stall, council asked staff and the resident to conduct an on-site measurement and trial. Staff proposed temporarily restriping the parking stalls a little shorter to create a roughly 7-foot gap in front of the intersection, posting the area as no-parking for a test day, and seeing whether the change improves visibility. If the experiment shows improvement, council said it could make the change permanent.
The council characterized the step as a low-cost test: if it does not help, the city can revert the striping. Council members also discussed alternatives such as moving the stop bar a few feet forward and agreed to follow up after the site visit.
