2010-62 ESTABLISHING ALL WAY STOP INTERSECTION - WESTLAWN AVENUE AND FOREST AVENUE

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EXCERPTS OF THE MINUTES OF THE TRAFFIC AND PARKING COMMISSION MEETING Tuesday, July 13, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Item#1 Request for an all way stop at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Linden Avenue Matt Newell handed out an updated Traffic Count/ Speed Study done July 8 and July 9, 2010, for the Commission members to review. The total count is about the same, in February we counted 645 vehicles and in July we counted 630 vehicles. The police went out last Friday and Saturday and ran radar. The second shift wrote nine speeding tickets in three hours and third shift wrote four tickets in four hours. Daron Drake, Jackalyn Creason, and Jon Baxter all residents of the west end shared their concerns with the Traffic and Parking Commission regarding vehicles driving at high rates of speed on West Forest. Daron Drake thought the most reasonable place for the stops signs would be Westlawn and Forest because it is a cross intersection whereas Linden is not. All the other intersections going east from Dennis to Fairview are four way stops because they are a cross intersection. There have been two car accidents in the past several years at Westlawn and Forest. The sidewalk stops at Westlawn and Forest. There are no sidewalks from there to the park. Cars park on both sides of the road. Jackalyn Creason lives in the area where there are not any sidewalks. Ms. Creason does not let her children ride their bikes out in the street. Safety is an issue whether it is people driving or walking. Jon Baxter shared photographs of the intersection of Linden and West Forest. The photographs were taken going south on Linden approaching West Forest. When you get to Forest you have to creep out into the intersection to see if it is clear or not because there is a natural hill there at Linden and Forest looking west. We have a lot of pedestrians there and there are no sidewalks and there is parking on both sides of the street. The City buses fly down that street. Discussed possibly posting no parking on one side of the street. All the people that signed the petition are very adamant about getting a stop sign first. Ed Harris would entertain a motion for an all way stop at the intersection of Linden and Forest because it is more equal distant between Dennis and Kiwanis Park and there is a pretty bad sight distances issue. Ed Harris motioned to approve an all way stop at the intersection of Linden and Forest and seconded by Marian Winter. All were in favor. The Vice Chairman declared the motion carried.