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TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Director's Report to Public Works Committee of March 17, 1981.
Item: WD-40-81.
Date: March 5, 1981.
Subject: Parking on Mill Street, Village of Orono. (C-256-81)
Recommendation:
THAT the existing NO PARKING restrictions on Mill Street, from
Regional Road # 17 to King's Highway # 35/115, be retained, in
accordance with Schedule 'A' of By-Law 79-1.
Report:
On February 23, 1981, Council received a petition from Mr.
Kenneth Jackson of Orono, requesting that parking be permitted
on Mill Street in the Village of Orono, from Dixon Street to
Main Street, on the east side. As a result, Resolution # C-256-81
was passed, as follows:
"THAT the petition &eceived 4nom Mtc. Kenneth
Jackson ugatcding ajvtanging the parking tce-
ZtAiesiows in OAOno be tce4mAed to the
D,vicectok o4 Pubt ic Wo&k6 6atc a kepoA t to
the Public Wo&k.6 Committee".
Mill Street, from Dixon Street to Main Street (Regional Road 17)
is approximately twenty (20) feet wide and some five hundred and
twenty-five (525) feet in length. On the section to which the
petition addresses itself there are seven (7) houses, an Anglican
Church, and various driveways on the east side, and on the west
side, from the area of Dixon Street, there are five (5) houses
without driveways. In addition, at approximately the half-way
point from Dixon Street to Main Street, on the east side, there
is a fire hydrant.
It should be noted that, if consideration was given to the lifting
of parking restrictions, there would only be room to accommodate
six vehicles (due to the existing driveways, the fire hydrant, etc.) ,
the roadway width would be reduced to one driving lane and there is
every possibility that vehicles would park on the sidewalk, which
is some four feet in width.
It is the opinion of this Department that an amendment to By-Law
79-1 in respect of Mill Street, would create unnecessary hazards
to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and the existing NO PARKING
should be retained.
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