The Marthasville Board of Aldermen moved forward with approval of an ordinance prohibiting street parking on portions of South Street and changing the flow of traffic on North Street at their Jan. 15 meeting.
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The Marthasville Board of Aldermen moved forward with approval of an ordinance prohibiting street parking on portions of South Street and changing the flow of traffic on North Street at their Jan. 15 meeting.
The board had discussed the ordinance at length during their previous meeting at the request of Alderman Leo Meyer, who felt the current street parking situation was untenable and made the road too difficult to travel during events.
The ordinance prohibits street parking on South Street between one and Two Street, as well as from Three Street to Highway 47 and both sides of Southwest Street. The no parking signs will not be placed on the block of South Street between Two and Three streets as that section was widened as part of the larger street improvement project in Marthasville.
Board members felt the widened section had been adequately expanded to accommodate street parking.
The ordinance also stated yield signs will be placed on North Street at its intersection with Fifth Street to help improve the flow of traffic and prevent accidents.
The yield sign was in response to another concern from Meyer, who felt that the parking situation on Fifth Street limited visibility and created a dangerous situation where it was difficult to see incoming traffic.
The ordinance was passed largely without discussion, although there were some words about potentially expanding the ordinance in the future.
During discussions at the Dec. 18 meeting, board members had discussed further limiting parking on other streets in the city limits, although they wanted to examine the impact of the new ordinance first.
“Like we said last month, we’re probably going to have to pursue some other ones,” said Mayor David Lange.
Meyer echoed those sentiments, saying they should pay attention to the impact of the new signage.
“We should probably put an update out there just to set an example,” said Meyer.
The ordinance passed unanimously.