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Neighbors back emergency-only gate but warn of parking loss, trash after fairs
Summary
Residents near East Chestnut Street told the Transportation Advisory Commission the Dixon Mayfair Gate A should be reserved for emergencies but said outward-swinging gates, event staging and unattended trash have harmed the neighborhood and removed parking year-round.
Multiple neighbors told the Transportation Advisory Commission they support keeping the Dixon Mayfair Gate A available for emergencies but urged limits on non-emergency use and fixes to gate operation and cleanup after events.
"I do not have a problem for that gate to be used for emergency straight up... I do not have a problem for that gate to be used for emergency, but nothing else," said Mike Hamilton, who said he lives across the street and that the gate's outward swing has damaged his truck. Jack Caldwell said he believed emergency vehicles had not used that gate in about 25 years and warned that converting roughly 30 feet of curb to a red zone would remove year-round parking for residents: "You're asking this neighborhood to give up at least 30 feet of curbside parking year round for a 4 day event." Caldwell and others also complained that fair attendees leave bottles, fast-food trash and other litter in the neighborhood after events.
Representing the Dixon Mayfair, Furman Rubio, president of the fair board, said the organization needs the gate for some events during the year but that the fairgrounds' jurisdiction ends at the fence line; he said the board intends to pursue inward-opening or sliding gate options to address the outward-swing issue: "We were in the process of having plans of either moving it to go inward or having a sliding gate."
