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On Street Parking Options on Church Street NW and Dominion Road NE
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
DPW has preliminarily evaluated adding more parking on Church St NW by changing the frontage along the Post Office into a one-way street between Lawyers and Pleasant Street. Changing the road to one-way gives us the ability to provide 45-degree pull-in parking with a 16 foot travel way. The existing parking is +/- 18 spaces and the proposed parking would be +/- 28 spaces.
DPW has also preliminarily evaluated adding more parking on Dominion St NE by changing it to a one-way street from Church St NE to Ayr Hill Ave NE. Changing the road to one-way will give us the ability to provide 45-degree parking with a 16 foot travel way. The existing parking is +/-41 spaces and the proposed parking would be +/-51 spaces.
SUMMARY/STAFF IMPRESSIONS: These preliminary studies are based on available GIS data and do not include detailed property surveys. If these options are to be further pursued, the final layout and configuration may change due to final surveyed conditions.
Both layouts, while within the existing limits of pavement, cross outside of the public right-of-way which will require coordination and/or permissions from adjacent property owners. For the Dominion Road NE option the proposed layout is overtop NOVA Parks property and the Posh! property at the corner of Church Street NE and Dominion Road NE. For the Church Street NW option, the layout is partially overtop the property owned by the US Post Office.
A citizen meeting to discuss these proposals is scheduled for November 29th. Attached is a sample letter and list of property owners where the notices were sent.
RECOMMENDATION:
If Council wishes to pursue these parking modifications, staff can begin preparing final parking layout plans and cost proposals for implementation.