The Committee on Ordinance and Legislation convened, beginning with a statement on the open meeting law. Following a roll call, citizen input was opened, but no one had signed up to speak. The minutes from the November 12th meeting were then approved unanimously. The primary discussion revolved around Item number three, a traffic ordinance referred on November 25th concerning Breman Street and Lindsay Street. This ordinance proposed a stop sign insert on Breman Street Westley at the intersection of Lindsay Street, a one-way strikeout on Breitman Street Easterly from Lindsay to McDonald Street, and parking prohibitions on Breman Street 150 feet east of Lindsay Street. Stephanie MacArthur, Director of Traffic and Parking, and Dan Aguia, Director of Engineering and Planning, clarified that parking on both sides of Breman Street was not historically permitted by ordinance, with signs having been removed during construction. They noted that any changes to parking regulations would need to go through the traffic committee, whose next meeting is scheduled for January 21st at 4 p.m. The committee then moved to vote on the traffic ordinance. A motion for an emergency preamble passed with a vote of 4-0. Subsequently, a motion to pass the ordinance through all readings also passed unanimously. The meeting concluded with an update on other traffic ordinances related to MassDOT compliance, including modifications at the Breman and Lindsay intersection to accommodate tractor-trailer turns and the removal of a "no left turn" sign, before adjourning.
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1:54Committee on ordinance and legislation come to order. Uh, pursuant to the open meeting law, any person can make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit um through any medium. Attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unpreceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible.
2:17Item number one, citizen input.
2:20Oh, call the role.
2:22Council, here.
2:23Councelor Hart here. Councelor Poso here. Council Tit here. Uh, Council Tit said he was running a little late. He had an appointment in Boston that was two hours late in starting. So, with traffic, I'm sure he'll get here when he can. Item number one, citizen input. No one has signed up. Item number two, uh, the minutes from the November 12th motion to approve.
2:47Motion to approve. Is there a second?
2:48Second.
2:49All in favor?
2:50I.
2:51Item number three.
2:55And Mrs. Macatha will come down.
3:01Yeah, Dan, you want to come down too?
3:03Mr. Aguia will join us as well.
3:09Stephanie MacArthur, director of traffic and parking.
3:12Dan Aguia, director of engineering and planning.
3:19I think that further
3:30Okay. Um, the traffic uh was referred on 11:25 stop sign insert on Breman Street Westley at the intersection of Lindsay Street. Uh section two, a one-way strikeout on Breitman Street Easterly from Lindsay to McDonald Street and parking prohibited at all times on Breman Street 150 ft east of Lindsay Street. I'm not sure where it is, but on Lindsay Street, if you go up towards Melo Shares,
4:09Michael Shares, I've gotten calls from there. The street is wide and it's a two-way, but cars can fit on both sides even though it's a two-way.
4:21And there's six family houses along that way. And there's one old business that is no longer in service, but it had a driveway, a curb cut, but they're out of business and they've been out of business for several years. They still can't park there because there is no curb, right?
4:38So, it still shows as a driveway. But people there are very concerned. I suggested that they go to traffic, but they're concerned that there is no place to park if they have to park just on one side if it's a two-way, but it's always been a two-way with parking on both sides. So, so can you tell us why?
4:56Well, Stephanie, can I probably add a little bit more, but through all of this process, we discovered that it was not always parking on both sides. It was actually no parking along that easterly side, right, from Brownell to Brightman.
5:10They took the signs down during construction, but that doesn't correct. So, the signs are supposed to go back by ordinance because by ordinance it's no parking and it's been an ordinance prior to I went back to 2021. So, it's been an ordinance for quite some time that parking is prohibited on that side.
5:27But when the signs went down through all this construction that they've done, it's been down for a couple of years.
5:32Correct.
5:33Has there been any accidents there? Any issues with that being two-way?
5:38Not that we know, but the direction that you gave to them was was to go to traffic and then that that change can be contemplated and go through the process just like all of these are. It's nothing that can take place tonight because we haven't we don't have the information to do that.
5:52Um, but if there are sections that could be, we'd have to go out and we'd look at the width, make sure that we have the appropriate width, uh, for two.
5:59I didn't know. I thought maybe fire trucks or something like that that that was concerned. When is your next traffic meeting?
6:05January.
6:09Exact date is January 21st.
6:18January 21st.
6:19Correct. Four, five, 4 p.m.
6:21Four. I thought it was four. Okay. So, just to share that with the public that is listening about that. Any questions on any of these from anyone?
6:36Second.
6:37Motion for an emergency preamble.
6:39There's a second. Roll call, please.
6:43Yes.
6:43Councelor Hart.
6:44Yes.
6:45Council repos.
6:46Yes.
6:46Councelor Tiff. Chipper.
6:48Yes. Motion to pass through all readings. Second.
6:51Motion to pass through all readings.
6:52Second. All in favor?
6:53I.
6:55Any other questions?
6:56Um, not a question, but just a point of information for you. So, I know tonight's council meeting there were a couple of other ordinances for traffic that we're going through. And if you remember when the first discussion first came in, they had some what we'll call conditions or stipulations on Mass Dot's part to comply with.
7:12They've already implemented them all.
7:14Good.
7:14So, they don't need to be contemplated in the discussion. um that had to do with making sure that traffic could enter um Lindsay from President Avenue from both directions. That was one of them. They were making the modification to the westerly direction at the intersection of Breman and Lindsay.
7:32You'll see if you get up if you drive up to that corner now, you'll see where they removed the raised curb and now it's a concrete apron so that tractor trailer trucks can now make that turn. Um so they they've complied with what we've asked them to do and get rid of that no left turn sign which I know.
7:46So, I was on them every day and then they removed it the morning of the last city council meeting because I was on them every day and I said, "If this comes up to council tonight and that sign is still up there, you're not getting your one way."
7:59I get so many calls. I was ready to go with a screwdriver and take the sign down myself.
8:03Yeah. No, the whole project down there looks fantastic, but this is dotting eyes and crossing tees again to make sure ordinances match what mascot designed. So, we appreciate your efforts to motion to adjurnn. A second. All in favor.
8:17Thank you.