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Board approves moving farmers market dumpsters to adjacent city lot after business concerns
Summary
After extended public comment from downtown business owners worried about losing parking and delivery access, the Logansport Board of Works approved placing three enclosed dumpsters in the city parking lot east of Iron Horse Park and discussed removable bollards and temporary closures to protect pedestrian safety.
Erin, a planner with the city, presented options for accommodating three dumpsters needed for the new farmers market pavilion and kitchen, saying the dumpsters are required for oil, cardboard and normal trash and that relocating them will cost the city roughly six parking spaces. "We would lose roughly 6, spaces in the new parking lot that was provided," Erin said during her presentation, and she described measures to provide semi-truck turning access and an engineer-reviewed turning radius.
Multiple downtown business owners told the board the loss of parking and alley access would hurt deliveries and employee parking, asking staff to preserve access while guaranteeing pedestrian safety. The chair said the city will require a dumpster enclosure and is pursuing removable bollards for pedestrian events: "We're going to install removable bollards there ... the intent would be to allow that to be pedestrian," he said. After discussion, the board moved and approved the request to place the enclosed dumpsters in the city parking lot, while staff agreed to continue working with businesses on truck routing and temporary or event-specific access changes.
