12/10/90 Board of Public Works Minutes

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i • REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 10, 1990 Board that she has discussed Center City Associates. She are channeled through a tax established. Therefore, Mr. request be approved. Mrs. carried. APPROVE NEIGHBO Mr. Les and the Police Department have reviewed the block party request submitted to the Board on December 3, 1990, to close Eastmont, from Sunwood to Southlea, on December 16, 1990 and recommend approval of the request. Mrs. DeClercq made a motion that the recommendation be accepted and the request be approved. Mr. Leszczynski seconded the motion which carried. this request with Mr. Carter Wolf of further advised that donations made exempt fund which has been Leszczynski made a motion that the DeClercq seconded the motion which DENY PETITION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RESTRICTED RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONE - 1800 BLOCK WESTERN AVENUE Mr. Leszczynski indicated that the Bureau of Traffic and Lighting has conducted the appropriate traffic study in conjunction with the above referred to Petition for the Establishment of a Restricted Residential Parking Zone which was submitted to the Board on November 5, 1990 and it is being recommended at this time that the Petition be denied as ordinance requirements were not met. It is noted that the Bureau of Traffic and Lighting conducted a residential parking study at the above referred to location on November 29, 1990, from 7:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. The study showed an average occupancy of two (2) cars out of seven (7) possible parking spaces for an average occupancy of thirty-one per cent (310). The ordinance calls for an average of seventy-five per cent (750). At this time, there was an average of one (1) non-residential vehicle for an occupancy of seventeen per cent (17%). The ordinance requires twenty-five per cent (250) non-residential occupancy. Therefore, these results indicate that the ordinance requirements are not met and therefore denial is recommended. Mrs. DeClercq made a motion that the Petition as submitted be denied. Ms. Humphreys seconded the motion which carried. APPROVE REQUEST TO THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REGARDING SIGNALS ON STATE HIGHWAYS In a Memorandum to the Board, Mr. Joseph J. Bellina, Assistant Manager, Bureau of Public Construction, submitted to the Board a letter addressed to the Indiana Department of Transportation requesting a change in the way signals on state highways in the City limits operate. Mr. Bellina stated that the state has already agreed that an all -red flash situation is preferable but has asked that the Board send them a letter requesting such a change. Mr. Leszczynski informed the Board that at the present time, the City is looking into all traffic signals and as part of that review and updating process it was determined that it would be appropriate at this time to ask the State to change all signals to all red flash when they malfunction. Therefore, Mr. Leszczynski made a motion that the letter of request to the State as submitted be approved and executed. Ms. Humphreys seconded the motion which carried. REQUEST OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS TO CONDUCT " JANUARY 20, 1990 - REFERRED FOR LIFE" - In a letter to the Board, Mr. Arthur R. Leinen, PGK, Knights of Columbus Council 553, P.O. Box 774, South Bend, Indiana, advised that the St. Joe Valley Chapter of the Knights of Columbus are _l 1 1