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~O~ e 2. DISCUSSION or TRArFIC CONTROL MEASURES IN VARI'OUS AREA!saF" THE CITY ~ I'," , , , A.PlACEMENT or STOP SIGNS ON 5TH AVENUE AT MONROE AND LAWRENCE STREET, AND ON 4TH AVE~UE AT MONROE AND LAWRENCE STREETS, A~D~EM~VAL or THE STOP SIGN ON JErFERSONSTREET AT 5TH AVENUE - THE CHIEr OF POLICE AND THE TRArrlC SIGNAL TECHNICIAN INDICATED THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD RtCEIVED A NUM8ER,~r COMPLAINTSREGA.~ING THE V~(UME or TRArF'IC ON WEST 5TH AVENUE AND THE F'AILURE or A NUMBER OF' DRIVERS ON 5TH AVENUE AND THE ~IDE 'SiREETS TO YIELD RIGHT or WAY AS PRESCRIBED BY THE TRArrlC CODE. A SURVEY INDICATED ACCIDENTS WERE ABOVE NORMAL ON WEST 5TH AVENUE AND ITS SIDE STREETS. IT WAS THE 'RECOMMENDATION or THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THA,T STOP 'SIGNS BE PLACED ON 5TH AVENUE AT MONROE AND LAWRENCE STREETS AND ON 4TH AVE-NUE AT MaNROE AND LAWRENCE STREE'TS, AND THAT THE STOP SIGN ON JErrERSON STREET AT 5TH AVENUE BE REMOVED. THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS CONCURRED IN AND IS RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL BY THE COMMITTEE. V" B. REMOVAL or PARKING aN THE NORTH SIDE OF 4TH AVENUE rROM:OHA~NELTON STREET TO BLAIR BOULEVARD - IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT ,WEST 4TH AVENUE IS HEAVILY USED BY INDUSTRIAL TRAFrIC, PARTICULARLY TRUCK TRArrIC, AND DUE TO'THE NARROWNESS or THE STREET THAT PARKING HAD BEEN PREVIO'USLY REMOVED rROM THE NORTH' SI DE rROM LI NC'OLN TO WASHI NGT'ON STREETS AND MADI SON TO MONROE -STREETS AND THAT ~THE REMOVAL 'OF PARKI NG I~N THESE AREA'S HAD BEEN A DErl NI TE BENEF'I T TO THE MOVEMENT OF TRArrl C, BUT THAT THERE WERE STI LL 'P'ROBLEMS' I'N'THE AREAS WHERE PARKING WAS ALLOWED ON BOTH SIDES or THE STREET. To ALLEVIATE THESE PROBLEMS, I T WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE POLICE' DEPARTMENT ,THAT PARKI NG BE REMOVED I N ALL AREAS ON' THE NORTH SIDE OF 4TH AVENUE WEST FROM CHARNELTON STREET ~O BLAI~ BOULEVARD. e THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS CONCURRED IN AND IS RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL BY THE COMMITTEE. I C. REMOVAL- OF PARKI NG AND ESTABLI'SHMENT ,OF LErT TURN'AND THROUGH LANES AT THE' I NTER- SECTION or 13TH AVENUE AND OLIVE STREET - THE ~OLICEDEPARTMENT INDICAT~D THAT THEY HAD MADE A SURVEYOr THE TRArrl C CONDI TI ONS AT 13TH AVE'NUE' AND OLI VE S'TREET AND 'RECOMMENDED THE rOLLOWING CH'ANGES AT THIS INTERSEC'TION TO EXPEDITE THE MOVEMENT OFTRAFrIC:THAT THE PARKING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 13TH AVENUE BE REMOVED rOR 100 rEET TO THE WEST ~ROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH OLIVE STREET; THAT PARKING BE REMOVED rOR 65rEET' ON THE NORTH SIDE or 13TH AVENUE TO THE WEST; THAT PARKING BE REMOVED ON 13TH AVENUE FOR 67 FEET ON THE SOUTH SIDE TO THE EAST FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH-OLIVE STREET. IT WAS FURTHlR RECOMMENDED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT lErT TURN AND THROUGH LANES BE ESTABLISHED FOR EAST BOUND TR~FF'IC ON 13TH AVENUE ENTERING OLIVE STREET ANO THAT THE LEFT TURN MOVEMENT F'OR WEST BOUND TRAFrlC ON 13TH AVENUE ONTO OLIVE STREET BE ELIMINATED~ THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS CONCURRED IN AND RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL BY THE COMMI TTEE. -: "-, D. Two HOUR 'P~RKI NG RESTRI CTION ON THE NORTH SI DE bF 14TH AVENUE tROM OAK STREET TO THE ALLEY WEST - THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED' THAT A TWO HOUR PARKING' RESTRICTION WAS RECENTLY IMPOSED ON EAST 14TH AVENUE. DUE TO AN OVERSIGHT, THE ONE-HALF' BLOCK AREA ON THE NORTH SID~ OF '14TH AVENUE rROM OAK STREET TO THE ALLEY WEST WAS LEFT UNRESTRICTED. THIS CONDITION IS CONrUSING BOTH TO THE PUBLIC ANO'THE ENFORCING orrlCERS AND IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS AREA BE RESTRICTED rN THE SAME MANNER AS THE REST or THE BLOCK. IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION or THE COMMITTEE"THAT A TWO HOUR PARKING RESTRICTION BE IMPOSED ON THE NORTH SIDE or 14TH AVENUE FROM OAK STREET TO THE ALLEY WEST." I ~, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. WATSON, SECONDED By'MR. KOPPE, THAT THE REeORT or THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE BE ADOPTED. MOTION CARRIED. 9 A REPORT or THE COMMITTEE OF' THE WHOLE MEETING HELD.MARCH 5, 1956, -'RE: REQUEST TO PUT THE rLUORIDATION ISSUE ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT WAS SUBMITTED AND READ'AS FOLLOWS: e "PRESENT: MAYOR JOHNSON; COUNtlLMEN BOOTH,. KOPPE, WATSON, OwEN, SHEARER, HARTMAN; AND SHISLER; CITY MANAGER; CITY ATTORNEY; CITY'RECORDER;' AND A NUMBER OF INTERESTED CITIZENS. I. REQUEST BY EDISON SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER'S ASSOCIAT~6N FOR ~ ~OTE ON THE-'MATTE~ or ADDING FLUORINE TO THE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY AT THE MAY 18, 1956 PRIMARY ELECTION - THE MAYOR INDICATED THAT THE MEETING WQULO BE CONFINED TO THE DISCUSSION OF THE QUESTION AS , 1- TO WHETHER THE COUNCIL SHOULD OROERA VOTE~ON THE FLUORIDATION or WATER AT THE MAY IS; 1~56 PRIMARY ELECTION. THE CITY ATTORNEY iNDICATED THAT THERE WERE THREE AVENUES THAT THE 'COUNCI MIGHT TAKE IN THIS MATTER. (I) THE COUNcft COUCD ENACT AN ORDINANCE DIRECtl~G tHEEUGENE~ATE~ AND ELEtTRIC BOARD TO ADD rLUORfNE TO 'THE WATER, 'WHICH ORDINANCE WOULD BE SUBJECT TO<~ RErERENDUM PETITION. (2) THE COUNCIL COULD PLACE THE MATTER ON THE MAY 18; 1956 PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT FOR A VOTE BY THE PEOPLE OR, I - ~