HomeMy WebLinkAboutWD-95-81 TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Director's Report to Public Works Committee of July 7, 1981.
Item: WD-95-81.
Date: July 3, 1981.
Subject: PARKING - Church Street, Bowmanville.
North side - between Division & George
Streets, and west boulevard, Division St.
Recommendation:
THAT the Secretary of the Congregational Council of Trinity
United Church be advised that parking will be permitted on
the north side of Church Street, between Division Street and
George Street, Bowmanville but that any parking on the west
boulevard of Division Street cannot be permitted.
Report:
The attached correspondence is in request for parking to be
permitted, on Sunday mornings, in the subject area. By-Law
79-1 details that parking can be permitted on the north side
of Church Street, from Division Street to George Street, and
in keeping with this the signs have been removed.
Insofar as the request to park on the boulevard is concerned,
By-Law 79-1 is very specific in the restrictions pertaining
to same. Section I, Item (1) (b) defines a boulevard as
follows:
"'boulevard' means all the parts of the highway
save and except any roadway, shoulder or sidewalk
being that part of the highway lying between the
property line and the edge of the sidewalk nearest
to the property line and where there is no side-
walk it means that part of the highway lying be-
tween the property line and the travelled portion
of the highway or the edge of the shoulder where
such exists, furthest from the travelled portion
of the road".
Further to the above, Section III, Item (5) (1) specifies the
following:
"General Parking & Stopping Regulations
5) "No person shall, on any highway, park any vehicle: \
1) "on or over a boulevard" t''�
WD-95-81 (2)
There are innumerable areas within the Town where it may
be of advantage to local residents to park on the boul-
evards and it is felt that, if the request under review
was to be granted, the Municipality would be in a position
of having set a precedent, notwithstanding the fact that
such a by-law amendment would be in contravention of the
Highway Traffic Act.
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