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<br />Minutes <br />Traffic Commission <br />City of Paris <br /> <br />The Traffic Commission met on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007, at 5:15 P.M. in <br />the Municipal Courtroom with the following members present: <br /> <br />1. Ed Seidle <br />2. George Kimbrough <br />3. Jon McFadden <br />4. Tom Calabria <br />5. Ray Banks <br /> <br />The city staff was represented by Assistant Chief of Police Bob Hundley. <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order at 5:20 by Acting Chairman Ed Seidle. <br /> <br />Mr. Seidle asked the commission members to review the submitted minutes of <br />the July 10th, 2007 meeting. Mr. Kimbrough made a motion to approve the <br />minutes which was seconded by Mr. Banks. The motion carried 5-0. <br /> <br />Mr. Seidle then moved to item #3, a request for a no parking area on the west <br />side of SE 1 st Street in the 300 block. The Church of the Holy Cross, 322 S <br />Church has a narrow drive that enters from SE 1st Street. The drive provides <br />access to the rear of the church and the offices in which many of the elderly <br />parishioners use. There is a concern for the vehicles parked on the west side of <br />the street being struck by persons attempting to back out of this narrow drive. <br />The request was for a no parking are directly behind the drive to avoid any <br />collisions. After discussions regarding the use of Bywaters park and church <br />parking on Sundays, Mr. Kimbrough made a motion for establishing a no parking <br />zone, 30 feet long centered on the drive with parking prohibited Monday through <br />Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the west curb line of SE 1st Street. Mr. <br />McFadden seconded the motion and it passed 5-0. <br /> <br />Mr. Seidle moved to item #4 regarding an extension of the left turn lane in the <br />200 block of Stone Avenue. The existing turn lane allows for left turns into the <br />two entrances to the student parking area. The request is to extend the left turn <br />lane to the west to allow left turns into the main drive of the high school. There is <br />a bottle neck now with persons waiting to make the turn into the main drive <br />blocking others that are trying to get in the turn lane for the parking areas. Mr. <br />McFadden made a motion to extend the left turn lane, seconded by Mr. Banks <br />and passed 5-0. <br /> <br />Information was presented regarding the completion of the left turn lane on N. <br />Collegiate, a blind area at the intersection of Jefferson Road and S. Collegiate <br />