10/05/64 Board of Public Works Minutes

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PETITION: STREET LIM ( ELECTRICAL DEPT.) A Petition from residents of Hass Drive requesting the installation of a street light on Hass Drive between Rose and Kettering was referred to the Electrical Department for investigation and recommendation. COMPIAINTj S MICHIGAN & GARS - YAPAIg, STREET G Comes now Mr. Burke to advise the Board that his property located at 1023 S. Michigan Street is the subject of much vandalism and also that additional street lighting might assist in avoiding the vandelism which includes broken windows, slashed automobile tares, and other damage to the building and neighboring area. The Board referred this matter to the Police Chief for investigation and also to the Electrical Department for investigation and recommenda- tion. TRAFFIC ENGINEER: INSTALLATIONS Following the recommendation of the Traffic Engineer, the following installations were approved: 2 Hour Time Limit signs installed to cover 1802 S. Main Street. PETITION: PARKING ON SAITLE FRCT,d OLIVE TO CHAPIN ( LULU CLINE SCHOOL) A Petition from A.B.Z. Buffet Restaurant and others on W. Sample Street requesting relief from parking problems in this vicinity was submitted to the Board. The Petition also states that many of the parking problems are caused by students of the Lulu Cline School who park on the streets all day, although there is sufficient off-street parking to accommodate them. These parking problems have been discussed with the Traffic Engineer, according to the Petition and relief is promised. The Petition was accepted and referred to the Traffic Engineer for attention. REPORT: TRAFFIC ENGINEER PARKING ON SAMPLE MZMK OLIVE AND C N Clem Hazinski, Traffic Engineer, submitted a reper t to the Board as the result of studies of parking on West Sample, south side of the street, between ULive and Chapin. Results of the studies show that more efficient and orderly flow of traffic would result, certain types of accident would be eliminated and present pedestrian exposure would be eliminated if parking could be removed from the south side of the street. The Traffic Engineer recommends that parking be prohibited on Sample Street from Olive to Arnold on the south side and on both sides of Sample between Arnold and the Pennsylvania Railroad spur line at the beginning of the divided highway in the 1000 block of West Sample Street. Following the recommendation of the Traffic Engineer, the change in parking as.indicated in the report was approved. REPORT: TRAFFIC ENGUfEER ( PARKING ON DIXIOND AVENUE) Clem Hazinski, Traffic Engineer, submitted a report and recommendation to the Board recommending that parking be prohibited on the east side of Diamond Avenue from Lincoln Way .Pest to a point approximately 200