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Smithfield council conditionally approves NCDOT Market Street plan, warns of about 98 lost parking spaces
Summary
The Town of Smithfield on a voice vote conditionally approved the North Carolina Department of Transportation's proposed downtown traffic reconfiguration, attaching seven mitigation conditions after task-force recommendations and public comment noting potential loss of about 98 on-street parking spaces.
The Town of Smithfield council voted to give conditional approval to the North Carolina Department of Transportation's proposed Market Street traffic reconfiguration, while recording the town's concern that the plan would eliminate about 98 on-street parking spaces in the downtown core.
The action came after a task force assembled by the town reviewed DOT's plan and presented alternatives and mitigation options. Kim (task-force staff) read the draft resolution aloud, which finds that implementation of the DOT concept would result in a net loss "of approximately 98 existing on street parking spaces within the downtown core" and then lists seven…
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