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Residents raise noise and signage concerns; council notes house-number enforcement is courtesy-driven
Summary
Online commenters raised noise complaints about Roads Park and a request for a Goodale Boulevard traffic study; at the meeting council members said house-number enforcement is currently complaint-driven and acknowledged a constituent grievance about city staff removing civic-event signs from the right of way.
Several public comments read into the record before the council’s business on May 26 urged city attention to neighborhood quality-of-life issues.
Online commenters (read by the clerk) raised multiple complaints about excessive noise at Roads Park. Claire Smith submitted a request for the Goodale Boulevard traffic-safety study timeline. Blanch Luick’s online comment alleged the mayor had staff remove signs belonging to a local civic-service group; Council Member Kak later relayed a related constituent concern during council comments, noting staff told the group their signs were in the right-of-way and had been removed.
On house-number enforcement, Council Member Kak said residents had reported citations for numbers that are too small; staff clarified that current practice is a door-hanger courtesy and that formal citations have not been broadly issued. Council members urged continued communication and cited recent social-media and 311 outreach informing residents of the 4-inch height requirement in the city code.
Council thanked volunteers for Memorial Day events and said they would review constituent concerns raised about signage and park noise as part of ongoing community communications.
