The Fall River Traffic Board convened on August 17, 2022, with all members present. The meeting began with the approval of the July 20th meeting minutes, which passed unanimously 4-0. The board then addressed two curb cut requests: one for 423 Church Street to extend an existing opening by 10 feet, and another for 229 Hawthorne Street to create a new 13-foot opening while reducing an existing 16-foot one by 4 feet. Both curb cut requests were approved unanimously. A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to a miscellaneous request regarding traffic safety on Anthony Street, particularly around Letourneau Elementary School. Principal Sean Simpson and Chief Operating Officer Ken Pachico of Fall River Public Schools advocated for making Anthony Street a one-way street from Stafford Road to William S. Canning Boulevard to alleviate severe morning and afternoon traffic congestion and safety hazards. A resident, Lindsay Sanamore, submitted a letter opposing the full one-way change, suggesting alternative solutions and questioning the process. After extensive discussion, the board approved a modified proposal by Officer Faris to make Anthony Street one-way westbound from Stafford Road to Lanford Street, leaving the section from William S. Canning Boulevard to Lanford Street as two-way. This decision passed unanimously 4-0. The board also approved associated signage, including 40-foot no-parking zones at the Anthony Street/Stafford Road and Anthony Street/Lanford Street intersections, also passing 4-0. Further items included the approval of three handicapped parking requests: one for 534 Birch Street, one for Mr. Cavallo, a 97-year-old World War II veteran, at 57 Bates Street, and one for a resident with a child requiring handicapped access at 677 Dwelling Street. All three passed unanimously. The board also approved the rescission of several unused handicapped parking spots on North Main Street, Third Street, and Grove Street, which passed 4-0. Finally, a tabled request to reverse the one-way direction of North Varley Street, making it southbound from Locust Street to Pine Street, was approved unanimously.
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0:08prior to the meeting i'm going to read the open meeting law excuse me pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible
0:30uh madam clerk can we start with rogue ball please sure helen rigo here natalie melo here sergeant dolan here and officer faris president okay everybody's present today first on the agenda is citizen input is anybody here for a matter that's not on the agenda okay nobody's here for citizen input excuse me next on the agenda is the approval of the meeting minute from the july 20th
1:08meeting i make a motion that we approve those minutes okay oh safari seconds anyone opposed to approval of the minutes of the prior meeting madam clerk can you do roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant joellen yes and opposite bias yes okay the meeting minutes have been approved next on the agenda is uh the curb cut section first one is uh 423 church street excuse me the applicant lives on
1:46columbia street but the curb cut request is 23 church street are they here on the back there uh there's minimal impact on the neighborhood if you look at the picture on the application the way the driveway was designed the curb should have been removed at the time that the driveway was put in but it wasn't i have no objection to that i make a motion that we approve the curb cut request at 23 church street second
2:20hell in seconds anyone opposed madam clerk can you do roll call please sure helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes officer faris yes before we move on i don't want to get ahead of myself i read i didn't read excuse me the actual request uh the existing dwelling is serviced by a ten and a half foot curb opening slash driveway on church street the applicant is proposing to extend this opening
2:51an additional 10 feet to provide to provide improved access to the existing off-street parking spaces if granted the applicant shall install an entirely new concrete apron within the right-of-way the existing area is comprised of a broken concrete sidewalk and driveway the applicant shall also be required to repair any and all sidewalk roadway or curbing affected by this construction activity okay so 23 church street
3:17past you're all set alan thank you you're welcome next curb cut application is for 229 hawthorne street right front i'll do it right this time and i'll read it first the existing dwelling dwelling is serviced by a 16 foot curb opening slash driveway on hawthorne street that access that accessed an existing garage the applicant is proposing a new 13-foot curb opening slash driveway that will provide access to new
3:53off-street parking spaces the existing 16-foot opening will re will be reduced by four feet if granted the applicant shall install an entirely new concrete or asphalt driveway apron within the right-of-way the existing area is comprised of grass with no sidewalks the applicant shall also be required to repair any and all shoulder area slash roadway or curving affected by this construction activity
4:21so hawthorne street is all single family homes there's plenty of parking in the neighborhood there this will have no effect at all on the neighbor's ability to park so i make a motion that we approve the curb cut for two to nine hot dog street motion to approve natalie seconds it is anyone opposed to it adam clark can you do a little call please helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes and officer farris
4:50yes okay 229 hawthorne street's been approved you're all set thank you you're welcome next on the agenda is a miscellaneous request from a resident on harvard street are they here okay the resident is requesting a four-way stop sign at the intersection of harvard and woodlawn street i'm going to read their letter i live at the corner of harvard and woodlawn streets there is a stop sign
5:25stop sign at woodlawn street crossing harvard the cars coming down from robeson often speed down harvard as soon as they cross robeson or turn onto harvard from robeson we need a four-way stop sign at this intersection to slow people down and lose their momentum before someone is hurt we get traffic coming from hathaway funeral home for people who are not familiar with the neighborhood
5:50i am sorry to say there is also a resident with a souped-up car that speeds up and down harvard street also it's in for my ipad so it's a request again for four-way stop signs and um i wish i printed it out but as the board knows i have numerous studies that i've done four-way stop sign does not get the desired effect that a lot of the residents think it does
6:19i'll just reiterate some of it where the the motorists become irate that they have to stop in a place that is not normally warranted so we get cars that accelerate even faster a lot of cars don't stop at the four-way stop sign because they think that it doesn't belong there right they're not right for not stopping but it doesn't belong there so i make a motion that we leave harvard
6:43and woodlawn street as is and make no changes to their perception second down natalie seconds it anyone opposed to that anyone else have any comments on it sure we're gonna deny it we're gonna deny yeah we're gonna leave it as is okay so i make a motion that we deny the application or the request for a four-way stop sign there and natalie seconds it madam clerk can do roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mellow
7:18yeah yes but it sounds like they say denial yes the denial they are emotionally denied sergeant dolan yes and officer ferris denied okay that is denied tonight next under miscellaneous requests is an approve a letter from the fallen public schools for anthony street to become a one-way from stafford road to william bess canning boulevard you're here sir anybody else here for it we have to read this letter
7:50okay i'm going to read the letter this is uh from simpson the principal at the school to whom it may concern the purpose of this letter is to provide context for the discussion around traffic and student safety during our am drop-off and pm pickup for students the laterno school has two access points the main one is located off of anthony street and the secondary access off of progress street
8:20both streets are two ways of parking on both sides with an outlet on stafford road we stagger a rival and dismissal across multiple doors on both sides of the building to alleviate traffic currently the biggest safety concern is with our morning drop law via the anthony street entrance vehicles are unable to safely leave the parking lot turning out to anthony street the congestion on anthony street
8:43prevents cars and buses from exiting the parking lot in either direction ultimately the backup prevents parents from getting their students to the drop-off areas creating unsafe situations where students have to cross traffic or be in the street after consulting with the community stakeholders crossing guards school officials and our school resource officers the suggestion has been made
9:07that we make anthony street a one-way from stafford road toward william s canning boulevard we believe that this step will help keep traffic flowing safely allowing students to get to the drop-off areas stakeholders agreed with this direction as it will allow more outlets off anthony street to support traffic newark landform call street we would need signage to indicate the changes and support reinforcing the
9:35shift through our team of school resource officers the majority of neighbors that attended our 8 10 22 neighborhood meeting at letourneau were in favor of this change if you have any further questions that we can support please do not hesitate to contact us for clarification sincerely sean simpson principal eternal elementary school mr pachico do you want to offer anything on that
10:12thank you ken pachico chief operating officer florida public schools lieterno almost since it was built has been an issue uh as far as traffic goes the neighborhood is tight two-way traffic on on anthony street is busy um but parking on both sides and school traffic just makes it almost impossible uh to get around progress street is um again a second outlet of that school but to be totally honest um
10:49progress is used just for us to get rid of a few buses out onto stafford road but again where we find that stafford road is as busy if not busier than anthony street at school let out between the walking students uh parents trying to pick up children and also uh adding the added buses that we have at latona we have eight buses that pick up and drop off at laterno every day
11:15so as we sat at the meeting with neighbors we discussed three options the first option being a timed one-way so that between certain hours of the morning and certain hours of the afternoon the street would turn into one way um that wasn't a very popular offer um and sergeant galveo said that that for them that would cause more issues than what it was worth i mean it's too confusing to remember not everyone is
11:47coming to the laterno school and those that are not are going to be finding that a little difficult the second one was to make a one-way partially so to go to newark and from newark to stafford make that a one-way heading west until you get to that point and then it becomes two-way again not the popular piece um because we will be dumping everybody on north and towards another school
12:19and making that more difficult so the third option which was the popular one um was to make it a one-way all the way to the boulevard and still have three outlets of of roads that car people could take choices if they really needed to get over to stafford road and that wasn't the preferred it was also another letter sent the a person who couldn't make the meeting and um
12:46i'm not sure she sent it here also but that she was asking a couple of things and and if i could just hit on two of those one of them was the um using progress street as the inlet into the school and using anthony as an outlet not touching anthony at all the problem with that is is when you come into progress number one you'll be clogging up stafford road two
13:11cars trying to come in from either side coming into stafford road the street is populated it's small very small street and once you get in there you immediately have to turn left immediately have to turn right and you run along the back of the school and then you end up coming up through the parking lot and out it'd be a lot of queue up time which sometimes is advantageous but i think stafford road would not
13:37benefit from from using that particular method and i don't think it helps us at all on anthony street whatsoever because you're still going to have cars coming up trying to get into the school and then up to stafford road where they'll be queuing up for quite a while to turn down into progress the the we've done quite a bit of different queueing up areas on the property uh shifting buses from where we used to
14:05pick them up into other areas and um it's helped but it hasn't solved the problem and we we really think that anthony street is one way will allow that neighborhood the neighbors but also the entire neighborhood to be able to suffer through this 20 minute time in the morning and 20 minute time in the afternoon it doesn't it doesn't stretch out much more than that and i know it's a lot of changes
14:35um for just that but i think that um like a lot of things once people get into this new pattern um i think they'll be less likely to be intrusive on people's driveways which is one of the complaints we heard a lot of parking in front of driveways a lot of parking some people parking inside people's driveways and then not being able to move the drawback obviously as i don't have to tell you about the
15:02speed changing on on one way streets nobody coming at you this speed increases a bit the parking on both sides hopefully will will keep that down to a minimum but um it we feel that that's the best method for us to um to let the close to 700 students out of lieterno every day safely but one crossing god um in one area second crossing god and another area on stafford they do all they can they
15:33um they they do a real good job uh getting our students back and forth states along with our parents safely um but it you know it's a blessing every day that we don't have you know issues there so um that's the request from the school department um we um we hope that um we can do something there to uh to help this problem out the school was built in 2008 and there was a lot of
15:59thought at the time that we were going to be able to add another secondary road so to speak there's a piece of property that runs almost the length of anthony street on that city-owned property over the years it's kind of been broken up so that i think that window is closed but that was the original intent was to put a secondary road down and it would dump out just before um first fought on the bottom
16:28but that ship has sailed so like we believe that this is our next best option okay do you have something else ma'am okay i think they're together just making sure they're together right yeah and that's the letter okay clear my throat for this one all right this is a letter from the resident greetings i'm a resident of the maplewood neighborhood in which anthony street is currently being reviewed to be
17:06changed to a one-way street from stafford road to the avenue i disagree disagree with this direction if it must be changed to a one-way street without voting from the neighborhood which was not done at the sole meeting regarding the issue that was held on wednesday august 10 2022 i would like to mention that the city and state spent a great deal of money with the route 81 modifications to
17:31improve access to the south coast marketplace as well as other businesses on william s canning boulevard this improvement also restricted something the neighborhood had been able to do the entire time it has been a neighborhood which is turned left onto the boulevard at the end of anthony street excuse me the improvements made it so you could only turn onto anthony street from a from this highly utilized road
17:58citing traffic problems due to the school with anthony street being a one-way from stafford road would this be changed would the neighborhood now only be accessible through lawton street from that boulevard i ask because at the light by law and traffic backs up and blocks access and then everyone who is trying to get to anthony street from the boulevard will have to use tucker street to stafford
18:23road or make a u-turn on the boulevard and then turn right on lawton street and then follow lawton all the way to stafford road then make the right on anthony street and get to the build get to the building that way does the city realize that every single person who drives their child to school will have to use stafford road and will make a treacherous walk even more so for those who walk down stafford road
18:47if the city were to make anthony street in one way at all i would have assumed that it would utilize the traffic flow that was intended during a multi-million dollar traffic improvement plan i have two suggestions that would be acceptable due to the layout of the neighborhood and current traffic flow patterns first there is no change to anthony street at all the entrance to laterno
19:07would be only from progress street all traffic could enter there and follow along the access road along the back of the building with the only exit being anthony street where cars could go both ways out of the street and disperse both streets would be utilized therefore not just one street would be bearing the brunt of the traffic second the city could make anthony street a one-way from william s canning
19:32boulevard to stafford road this would allow residents two entry points from 81 and parents could get to anthony street from multiple streets not just stafford road they could utilize anthony a lot in land for the lawton or ames carl street from tucker field ames or lawn everyone would be forced to leave on stafford road affording the ability to go south go towards south coast marketplace
19:58or back into the city but would allow multiple entrance points to get to lieterno therefore dispersing traffic throughout the neighborhood not just one entrance on anthony from stafford i disagree with making anthony street one way overall and though i couldn't make the only meeting held on a weekday at 6 pm because i was working i did speak with several of the neighborhood residents who could make the meeting
20:23they advised me that there were two other options mentioned making the street one way temporarily during the drop off and pick-up times restricting parking on one side of the street and someone said to close this that someone said a resident set to close to close the school this wouldn't work for me as my child does attend lieterno i called to find out what i could do to share my voice to
20:48the people who are going to decide the neighborhood's fate seemingly blindly and laura forever told me that i could in fact write an email which would be right at the traffic board meeting she wasn't lying to you um this wednesday august 17th she told me that during the meeting the neighborhood voted to make anthony street one way and i would like to mention here that this did not happen
21:14no vote was discussed or taken there was only discussion on what was going to be done i am curious if there was a study taken as laura told me there was someone who drove around the area i was told that the meeting at the school there was no mention of how many cars entered anthony street from one direction or the other there was no mention of how many cars entered the street at all leading me to
21:37believe that there was no actual study done to see what the best scenario for the school would actually be regarding the buses the parents and the neighborhood this neighborhood has dealt with schools since it was renovated and the amount of cars increased significantly as a resident of this working-class neighborhood where each of us deals with school traffic year after year with parents blocking
22:02driveways and parking in driveways as they see fit trash being left on our sidewalks and even our flowers being picked i'm honestly disappointed in how this situation is being handled i feel as though no one is truly looking at the multiple ways of entry into the neighborhood that is merely considering the school instead of the entire neighborhood if you wanted to make one section of anthony street one way from
22:25staffordshire newark that would make no sense but would work to provide other entrances to the neighborhood than simply law and and would suffice but to have the entire street being forced to be one way is unacceptable to me and i would appreciate if there were other options that could be considered and voted on by the residents via mail-in vote i have also provided a map that i found online and you can refer
22:48to for your convenience thank you for your time and consideration lindsay sanamore
22:59any discussion i think this has been a problem for many years we've had meetings up that way and i not taking anybody's size or anything but i believe that one way would be a better way that's my opinion but is there going to be parking on both sides or just one side it already is parking on both sides you know if you make it one way that won't change okay is that the safest way
23:28well you can't eliminate parking right i think the the road is is wide enough for vehicles both sides and as um ms mello says i'm i'm going to get calls starting in september from the journal residents are going to call that there's a bottleneck right at the school and then cars cannot get through you have vehicles coming out of la turner that want to take a right to go to stafford
23:54road and you've got the buses that want to get into the school and i mean the crossing guard there gets threatened every day because of the bottleneck of vehicles if there's another way but something needs to be done from that portion from stafford road to the entrance to loturna school is really bad i think the one way is is the best way i move up in that neighborhood so i know
24:23do you have any insight on surprise i mean i've been in down in that area uh it is most certainly a very congested area living down in that area i can tell you a one way would kind of be a pain people want to enter in from canyon boulevard to anthony now you have to go around however one way the other way is not going to work on to stafford road you're
24:51not going to get those buses out there it's just not going to happen um it's been a partial one way sounds nice i think maybe for the residents um and again working on the street it's you know one way is it difficult to get around and you're gonna have people coming up the other way and we're gonna be right back to we need more stop signs more signs more traffic officers out there they talked
25:17about lights at one time lights i mean i feel for you over there it's it's all of these schools uh every 20 minutes every day is is congested traffic with threats to parents and blocking driveways and crossing daughter's guards and the crosswalk to get into the tournament is before you take the turn to get into eternal so every student who talks has to stop traffic from anthony street to go into the journal
25:56i've also walked my daughter down because she's a birthrighter i stopped doing that because people were driving crazy because i have to bring her to the front right to that side absolutely not in the winter time was terrible there was no removal there was nothing if you're gonna make it a one-way i just think that it'll just be ridiculous because we already deal with it as it is and it's been that way since 2008. so
26:24why now what does it matter now well i i think it's not nothing new every year come september i get calls from residents my pcos are constantly going down there to attack people that are blocking driveways i think finally um residents just had had enough and i think that's why this because it was supposed to come here but the school had to take it because they had they know how many cars are going into the school
26:52how many buses so it's not it's not anything new it's just every year and residents are getting sick and tired of the congestion and a lot of them have said just do it a one way but even um there's a video that was done uh 2018 um the school department went with the video and videoed the morning the chaos that's there in the morning and in the afternoon so i live on norton street
27:27so it's now going to make even more unwanted they all park in the driveways there and they leave their trash it's disgusting so now that's making that one way it's going to make our streets even worse
27:56says that the majority of neighbors that attended our 8 10 22 neighborhood meeting at laterno were in favor of this change that's true about 25 about 25 neighbors attended the meeting and there were two or three one of them wanted the school closed um that wasn't it it's not an option um the second maybe the second and third one one wanted um parking taken away on one side which would make it easier
28:35and the two-way traffic could flow better just unfortunately there's not a parking spot to be had most of the time on the street so we knew that that one wouldn't work because where would people go you're turning it into a snow day every day and that would be an issue and the third one was to um just do the time the time science so in the morning for 20 minutes or a half hour in the
28:59afternoon the same thing 20 minutes to 100 hours so it just it doesn't it does all right and if i could just one more thing and i forgot to mention this before so post coverage we've lost a lot of our not a lot percentage-wise we probably lost between seven and thirteen percent of our riders on buses because parents didn't feel comfortable with students on buses during covert and after so last year was
29:32a was one of our lowest ridership years on buses i don't expect that to be the same this year i expect that that some parents are going to be um easing back into this so we will have more students riding buses across the district but i i think that that attributed to a little bit more drop-off which was a little bit more traffic and we found that at most of our schools the jerky issue was
30:03enough for us to know okay after hearing people speak here reading the letter reading the letter from the uh principal i'm gonna i have to go on on the word of the principle that the majority of the neighbors that attended that meeting were in favor of the change from to be a one-way street from stafford road uh to the boulevard so i'm going to make a motion that we approve turning anthony street a one-way
30:34westbound from stafford road to the boulevard i'll second that alan seconds at motion oh okay before we i don't do you want them to vote on this because we'll have to talk about signage what's going to go into ordinance yes so do you want to do all in one shot or do you want to approve the one way first you're going to approve turning it into one way okay then we'll approve the signage
30:59yes is anyone opposed to turning it into a one-way as stated i think i think i would be opposed to would make it if anything partial maybe down to uh landfall and give some of the residents an opportunity to get around that neighborhood that that's my only uh objection to it so instead of going all the way down there's a next street landfall cuts right through down out untucker that'll that'll give an opportunity for
31:29people to get around and the only reason i say that is we can always go full one way if it doesn't work that's my only opposition i can go for that how does this work just remember you're gonna need me in power because people are gonna try well i don't think they're gonna try it anyway no matter what right i mean maybe double double do not enter i mean i don't these things are always
31:59difficult in the city around the streets where there's an abundance of traffic and with pedestrian traffic and people are late and we'd always like these things to go um as smoothly as possible they don't like you get inundated you too sarge with calls from schools for the first couple three months of the year and it's you know get as many people as we can out there it's i mean i i do i do have a uh
32:28for the for the neighborhood it's not gonna work because they tried it on niagara street right of course it's just around the city terrible i don't come downstairs my thing is minimal impact to the neighborhood the people they still come down the street the only thing is i think that if we do a partial whatever street we end is going to be bombarded with also we can't handle that much traffic at
32:51least if you have the whole street you have options in uh between trinity is on land foreign
33:22to the advantage of no matter how we do this is there's going to be some no parking here the corner stuff that would need to be added top of stafford road so that the buses could make that turn easily they struggle now and then on on landfall the same thing right from here to corner no parking both sides for the buses to make that that turn there and get off of
33:46because there are going to be one or two buses who are going to want to go to stafford road the rest can go down to the avenue because of the amount of students that they're carrying and who they're carrying but i i do believe that there'll be some of that no matter what we do so that'll be some added science and there's gonna have to be do not enters and we might
34:03have to do a stop sign wherever the side streets are going to be if there isn't one on the side street already the school department wants to be a good neighbor it's very difficult sometimes twice a day for us to be that good neighbor because i know we're not we try to be the rest of the day when the students are in school or on summer break um but unfortunately 181 days
34:29um because people breathe first thing in the morning and in the afternoon so any option works for us and we can't close the street while the kids are going in and out of the no that's worse right then you have the back up right you know it's tough it's a tough it's a tough situation with all the schools it really is fresh
35:06so you need to put both yeah i mean i've got my proposal on the table so you have to vote on which option these guys are on the street more than we are i'm just trying to look down the future here right i think we're going to be back here down the road turning it into a complete long way i mean this is something if if it does not work then you just go
35:31full one way west and that's it and we at least tried yeah to do to do that okay so if we try the school year the partial it doesn't work you're going to have to wait because you're not going to be changing it now to a full way in the middle of the school where everybody is no it's but i'm just right you know what i mean yeah we would ask for that too if it's
35:53whatever decision a good a good test would be 181 days through the winter the tough months yeah because i'm not gonna yeah you can't you can't in the middle of the years decide okay now i'm gonna do it a one way on the way let's rescind my motion and we'll adopt officer ferris's modified motion to turn anthony street into a one-way street from stafford road westbound to lamp fourth street
36:23and let it remain a two-way street from william s cannon boulevard to lampmore street so okay i would imagine officer ferris will second that motion so that means that vehicles that are in new orleans uh west from anthony no cars east from landfall
37:02two-way traffic not from no two-way traffic from an m494 so if you have any buses that are heading east on anthony they would have to go up right lanford and then just come around okay right but we wouldn't have had to do it either way right so so that doesn't hurt us okay okay that doesn't hurt us at all all right so that's the motion the motion is anthony street or
37:28one way from stafford road to lanford street and leave lamb four and then we leave anthony well we don't need to do anything with that yeah okay that's the moment so what do we got second in okay there you go okay all right helen rigo yes natalie yes sergeant dolan yes and office of founders for signage so that's passed yes any any other discussion on it before i talked about signage signage signage signage so at
38:05anthony at stafford road each side will get a notepad and hit a corner while i have the traffic board we need to go at least 40 to 50 feet that's the only way it's going to work because right now i have 20 feet there and it doesn't work so if a car is parked right up to the sign and that bus well i can go 30 feet without going into
38:27ordnance but if i'm going to go any more than 30 feet it has to be approved through ordnance so if we do 40 feet on each side that will give enough turn for the bus to turn if a car is 50. no i'm not i didn't say 50. i said 40. you said she said 430. i think she was saying 30 i think i think so if we go 40 feet okay and that would
38:51be so that would be the same thing at lamford and landfor and anthony yeah now lamford is a little bit wider so i might not need the 40.
39:02um so i'd have to take a look at that the only thing i could ask to is if you think about that that's where parents park so a lot of parents park on landfall they walk up know what they walk all right so well if they're gonna do that then i'm gonna need then i'm gonna need we're gonna need to leave before the next of those cars could leave if we can do that
39:24to give us a way out then we're going to need to do 40 as well and then the one way the do not enter i don't need that to i mean the one way i know where the signs are going to go and then the united that doesn't need to go in front of ordnance so that will just go where the street's going to end it's going to have
39:48two do not enters with one raise up on top so okay does that have to be uh emotions should you not enter no none of that including the signage okay the notepad can hit a corner has to go into order so we have to improve on that all right so i make a motion that we do the no parking here in the corner 40 feet away on anthony at stafford road and also
40:12anthony atlanta street and they'll carry the second half second seconds madam clerk can you roll paul please helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes in office of paris yes okay that is all passed thank you all set thank you you're welcome uh mr pacheco the only thing that i ask yes is when this goes into ordinance if you can talk to the ordinance committee and see if they can put it through as an
40:44emergency preamp sure so that this can go up uh either before school starts or right that would be just okay we're moving on to tabled uh handicapped parking requests from the july meeting 534 birch street back there short and sweet there's no off street parking available to the applicant parking is tough on that street i make a motion that we approve handicapped parking for 534 birch street
41:24second what's the fairest seconds and anyone opposed madam clerk can you do roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mellow yes sergeant dolan yes officer faris yes okay your handicap parking is approved you're welcome
41:48yeah i know she's coming up with a paper though i had missed a document yes a letter from the landlord thank you so much there you are thank you frank you're welcome uh everyone anyone that's here for handicapped pocket just to let you know that um once once you have a spot if you have a neighbor that happens to have a handicapped friend visiting uh they are it's not your spot they are
42:12allowed to park there it's very rare that it happens but it may happen okay do you want to tell them how long it takes yep so the first step is of course getting approved at the traffic department the second step is we're going to go out to your street mark the area get the measurements that will go into city council referred to ordinance so it could take anywhere between six to
42:31eight weeks before you see the polls go up thank you okay next uh for tabled items is a request for uh people concerned with changing uh north varley street no that that that's i don't know why they put that that is uh remember we have that for a while i know i don't know stephanie anyone here from north valley street gentleman here is because we're we're still you know we had to do anything
43:17is this restaurant open nope i'm just seeing this thing through the end but i don't think it's a good idea that one plane going north one way and north valley going south i have no objection i hadn't didn't have an objection back then i just didn't know why we turned it a one-way um north in the first place and i wanted to make sure that issue evaporated that was causing us to do that
43:49and we never got meeting minutes or anything right no because it's i don't keep minutes from like that long ago unless there's i don't know how long they keep the video from years ago because it's been a long time it was way before the park got built the doggy park you know the park was built when they we made that into a one-way street was it already yeah because the people in that house
44:13was complaining right that's how well started yeah yeah i have no objection to turning flipping the one-way street around well we're not going to turn it into a two-way but so we're going to do a one-way from pine to locus right yes locust no pine pillow because right now you come i'm sorry you come out to locust okay
44:58the only issue on that street is there are there's a couple of curb cuts on there there's four on the west side that are unutilized and there's one on the east side they're overgrown there's chain-link fencing and clearly they're not used as a driveway whatsoever that's the only thing i found there it's a narrow street 27 feet wide um it's parking on both sides so it's we're not going to make it into
45:28two way we're just gonna we're just going to reverse the one way okay okay that's the motion i make a motion that we reverse the direction on north farley street and make it a southbound street now from locust to pine anyone's second second officer faris seconds it anyone opposed madam clerk helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes and office of fabulous yes okay it'll be direction will be reversed
46:08when might that take effect uh that could take a little bit longer because that's to go for first reading the second reading okay so that could take up to two months two months fabulous ladies gentlemen thank you very much welcome okay now we're on to uh handicapped parking spaces a request from the resident at 57 bates street i know i can't say names huh i know i can't say names but thank you
46:40for your service sir cavallo yep you can stay there stay there don't get up thank you for your service you're welcome 97 years old god bless you world war ii veteran we'd park your car for you if we could sir an indelible bronze star a recipient wow you know all of this huh um so bait street is housing property yes however i think we should make a phone call on his behalf and see if they can
47:14get him a parking space right in front of the door
47:23have you asked um the manager and what do they say no that police said there's not not enough parking should we just make it big street that's uh uh the street's too far for him bates is like set back in the parking lot so we should be knocking out this guy's door the one that runs the show and this is a high rise it's surrounded by a parking lot i want him to get one like
47:51yeah okay okay absolutely okay we're gonna make a phone call you already have handicap parking available but it's too far away right no a park on the street bait street that's a public street but why do you park there instead of in the parking lot there's no room no room so do you want to spawn on bait street yeah you got it all right okay thank you all right i make a motion that we approve
48:23handicapped parking as close as possible for this gentleman on bait street and i look i will suck at that hell in seconds anyone opposed no no commies uh not of course would you vote please yes alan rico yes natalie mello absolutely sergeant dolan yes in office yes okay sir you're all approved thanks for everything you'll get a spot right in front of your house if we can okay if we can go for it
48:53absolutely i'm sorry we see it we saved her for last 677 dwelling street yes okay um the petitioner has a child that requires handicapped there's no off-street parking available there is room for a spot right in front of the house i make a recommendation that i make a motion that we approve a handicapped spot in front of 677 dwelling street for the petitioner and i'll second that helen seconds and anyone opposed
49:33not a clerk can you do a roll call please sure helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes in office of paris yes okay it's approved ma'am you're all set sorry to make you wait this long for that sorry i'm trying to keep her as quiet as i can she was fine she was fine i have a big mouth grinding her teeth i could hear her crunching noise that's her teeth
49:54the most frustrating i'm going to send you the dental bill because that hurt my teeth i i brought it to the dentist her teeth are perfect i said you want to hear how bad she grinds herself but she has no damage to them good and she grinds them and you can watch her hit all right rescinded handicap spots requests from the traffic department to have the following handicap spaces rescinded
50:21due to individuals no longer utilizing the space because they have either moved no longer drive or have passed away north main street third street grove street you know i make a motion that we remove those handicapped spots second officer ferris second is anyone opposed to removing those spots helen rigo yes natalie mello yes officer faris yes sergeant dolan yes remove those spots anybody have any uh
50:55matters to discuss while we're in session i make a motion that we adjourn second now in seconds if anyone opposed i'm clerking to do will fall ellen rigo yes natalie melo yes sergeant dolan yes officer paris okay this meeting is adjourned