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Regular City Council Meeting October 13 , 2003 Page 5 were going much faster than the car that hit her daughter. Ms. Grant said after researching the City Ordinances on line, she discovered that the Director of Public Works had the authority to designate crosswalks. She contacted Terry Townsend and the next day the pedestrian crosswalk signs were placed right at the crosswalk and that evening the crosswalk was painted. Ms. Grant said the amazement was not because the action was taken, but the speed in which it was taken was wonderful. Also during the following week, the Paris Police Department was present after school and the following Friday, the Policeman actually had to get out of his vehicle to direct traffic. Ms. Grant said her purpose is to inform the City Council of the situation and to thank Terry Townsend, her City Councilwoman, Fran Neeley, and the Paris Police Department for their prompt attention to this matter. She asked the Council not to forget this situation because the violations are still occurring everyday. Betty Dixon Stokes, 136 Bonham Street, appeared before the City Council requesting head-in parking for businesses along Bonham Street. Ms. Stokes presented a petition signed by all of the businesses in the two blocks that are being discussed. Ms. Stokes said there are 14 businesses that are located between the Plaza and 3rd Street. She said on their block there are approximately five to six parallel parking places. She said that the 300 Block of Lamar going through the Plaza to Bonham are all slanted parking places and have been for a long time. Ms. Stokes said the width of Lamar Street from the east side and Bonham Street from the west side are approximately the same. She said that if you drive directly through the center of town, the left two lanes as you go off the Plaza continue straight. The right two lanes you have to move over one is parking and one is continued traffic flow. Ms. Stokes said if the city changed this to slant parking, there would be approximately three times more parking places for customers. She said that if they had more parking places, more business could be conducted, more sales expected, more taxes paid and more funds from the taxes to the city. City Manager Malone advised that this is an item that would be referred to the