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Consideration of a Town Code Amendment Restricting Parking along Pleasant Drive
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is for the Board of Aldermen to consider an amendment to the Town Code restricting on-street parking along Pleasant Drive to one side of the street.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325; Nick Herman - 919-929-3905; Mike Brough - 919-929-3905
INFORMATION: At the April 21, 2015 Board of Aldermen meeting, staff presented information regarding a request to limit on-street parking to one side of the street along Pleasant Drive. The Town had received a request from a resident of Pleasant Drive to prohibit parking along the south side of Pleasant Drive from North Greensboro Street until Mulberry Street. The resident indicated that signs had been posted limiting on-street parking to one side of Pleasant Drive but were removed for consistency with the Town Code, which did not at that time include a prohibition from parking along that segment of the street.
On-street parking is discussed in Chapter 6, Article IV, of the Town Code, and more specifically in Section 6-19, Parking Prohibited in Certain Locations at Certain Times. Subsection 6-19(b)(1)(t) speaks to parking along Pleasant Drive. Parking is currently prohibited along the north side of Pleasant Drive from its intersection with Crest Street to the end of the street, including the unpaved section to the end of the right of way. If adopted, the proposed amendment would prohibit parking along the south side of Pleasant from North Greensboro Street until Crest Street, and continue the current prohibition along the north side of Pleasant from Crest Street until the end of the Pleasant Drive right of way.
The Traffic and Parking Committee, an interdepartmental workgroup consisting of representatives from the Public Works, Police, Fire, Economic and Community Development and Planning departments, discussed the request to limit p...
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