WATERLOO — The metropolis will ban parking on a road that has change into a free-for-all for tractor-trailers, although some fear it’ll lead to extra parking on aspect streets.
Greyhound Drive, which has in recent times served because the overflow of semi parking from close by Love’s Travel Stop, will not enable parking on both aspect at any time, the City Council determined unanimously on Monday.
The parking, which clogs the road, has change into a “safety issue,” in accordance to Sandie Greco, town’s visitors operations director, who famous vans park there “all hours of the day and night.”
“There is a visibility concern for vehicles and trucks safety turning onto Greyhound from driveways and intersecting streets,” she wrote in a council memo.
The council unanimously handed the primary studying of an ordinance to ban parking along either side of Greyhound Drive in September, however declined to waive the second and third readings, which might instantly have put the ordinance on the books. Council members stated they most well-liked to wait and work with Love’s in addition to developer Harold Youngblut, who owns land within the area.
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The council handed the second and third readings Monday night time, adopting the ordinance and placing it into instant impact.
“I’m great with semis not being able to park there because, No. 1, safety issues, and No. 2, the trash,” Youngblut informed the council.
But Councilor Dave Boesen nervous truckers — needing someplace shut to cease for the night time — would as a substitute make use of aspect streets like Athens and Cyclone Drive.
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Semi vans and campers are seen parked on the shoulder of either side of Greyhound Drive close to the Love’s Travel Stop in Waterloo.
“Those streets are a lot narrower than Greyhound,” Boesen stated. “I think we’re going to move the problem.”
Greco famous a plan to handle the issue on aspect streets would “be brought back” to council within the close to future, with out elaborating.
In different enterprise, the council:
- Unanimously accepted the sale of property for $1 and a $250,000 improvement settlement with Top Notch Tile and Construction to assemble a 4,800 square-foot constructing along the east aspect of the newly constructed Warp Drive.
The settlement specifies the potential future development of one other 7,200 square-foot constructing in Phase 2, in addition to the choice to assemble two different business buildings of 4,800 and seven,200 sq. toes every in a 3rd and fourth part.
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Top Notch Tile and Construction proposed plan, Warp Drive, Waterloo, as introduced to the Waterloo City Council on Monday, March 7, 2022.
Per the settlement, Top Notch should start development of Phase 1 inside six months and full it inside 14 months, and should attain a minimal precise worth of $250,000. In alternate for finishing Phase 2 inside 12 months, town will present 50% tax rebates for the primary 5 years above and past that $250,000 worth.
Phase 3 and 4, if constructed, could even be eligible for rebates, stated Planning Director Noel Anderson.
The enterprise, owned by Justin Schmitz of Waterloo, would be the first along Warp Drive, including to the Waterloo Air and Rail Park, which has 400 acres and entry to the Canadian National rail line and the Waterloo Regional Airport.
- Heard a preliminary plan about increasing the using area for electrical scooters to embrace areas north of Franklin Street.
The scooters, owned and operated by nationwide corporations Bird and Helbiz and allowed in Waterloo since final June, have been “something fun to do” downtown, stated Jessica Rucker, director of Main Street Waterloo.
“There’s more to the scooters, though,” Rucker stated, noting for some, they’re essential transportation.
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Proposed scooter growth areas as introduced by Main Street Waterloo director Jessica Rucker to the Waterloo City Council work session on March 7, 2022.
In discussions with stakeholders, Rucker recognized areas of the Walnut Neighborhood the place scooters could be allowed. Two plans have been devised — one that may add an area bordered by East Fourth, Dane and Clay streets, and one other that may expand even additional to East Fourth, Newell and east of Highway 63.
The bigger possibility would “really connect Sullivan Park to downtown, especially with the Veterans Way project,” Rucker stated, noting she was in conversations with the 2 scooter corporations.
Councilor Nia Wilder, a frequent scooter rider final summer time, stated she would recognize having the ability to cross Franklin and journey additional. But she and others additionally nervous about riders crossing the practice tracks close to the rail yard, questioning whether or not the businesses could power riders off the scooters to stroll them throughout the tracks as a substitute.
“It’ll be a good question to find out,” Mayor Quentin Hart stated. “We can’t be the only place with railroad tracks.”