Residents urge red‑curb enforcement and speed bumps as Live on the Avenue fills downtown streets

Donner described Live on the Avenue as a multi‑week summer attraction that brings vibrancy but also parking overflow into nearby residential streets. "You can't tell them not to park there — it's a public street," he said, acknowledging the town's limited legal authority while stressing an aim to reduce driveway blocking and improve sight lines.

Multiple residents described safety problems near narrow corners and driveways. One resident said, "I'd either almost gotten hit or hit somebody" when cars crowded sight lines at corner intersections; another called for extending red curbs on approaches where large SUVs block visibility. Residents asked the town to repaint daylighting zones (the state requires no parking roughly 20 feet from corners) and to prioritize speed bumps on streets with repeated cut‑through traffic.

Staff explained the traffic‑calming process: streets request inclusion, staff performs speed surveys and the town prioritizes installations by need and budget. Staff said a program and funding streams now exist to install speed humps selectively; they noted the program cannot cover every request immediately because of cost. Donner and staff encouraged residents to submit specific street requests and offered a contact (Scott Schneider) to follow the process.

For Live on the Avenue specifically, residents suggested targeted measures for event nights: temporary barriers on the most affected side streets, pre‑event communications to encourage use of off‑street lots, more visible red curbs and additional CMPA or cadet patrols to ticket driveway blocking. Staff said they would include these suggestions in recommendations to the council and consider prioritizing downtown streets for traffic calming.