Board of Aldermen 5-21-2020 Page 10
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
Yes, thank you Madam President, if it's the pleasure of the body | have the map up and could share my
screen and very quickly go through it if that is wnat you wish?
President Wilshire
That would be great. Thank you, Tim.
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
OK so bear with me while | begin to pull up my screen and hopefully you can all see my screen on your
computers and | believe this would actually be televised to the general viewing public. So | am just going to
refresh to make sure | have the latest update. And | will slowly make my way up from Library Hill. So what
you see here at Library Hill is the start of Main Street and the theory behind narrowing Main Street will
happen right after Canal and | believe this is Franklin. The reason why we are not doing anything with this
intersection is because this is a temporary proposal. To change this intersection, there would be significant
expense and this is a very heavily used volume intersection as well. When we have the length of — for lack
of a better way of describing it — runway here to narrow as this orange line indicates, we can safely
transition the vehicular traffic into one lane.
With that being said, throughout this entire map, you will see purple and green and red. What this is
indicating is if it is in red it is a handicap spot; it will be shifted; it will not be lost. If it is green it will transition
to curbside, 15-minute parking; and that parking in a companion piece to this piece of Legislation is being
asked to be for free. After that 15-minute curbside parking, you know, enforcement would be in effect. I’m
sorry. | am seeing comments up on my screen here. Should | continue?
President Wilshire
Yes, please.
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
So right here you have Peddler’s Daughter, Peddler’s Daughter is showing outdoor seating right here. If
you are seeing yellow throughout this entire plan that is indicating a concrete barrier that will safely keep
vehicular traffic from the outdoor dining patron. This would be the sidewalk as noted earlier. You can’t
block a public way, the 5 VA ADA access. So you know there really isn’t an opportunity at Peddler’s
Daughter for any type of table seating on the sidewalk here due to the current state of the road condition.
You could, and there is on occasion, outdoor seating along here, which would still continue to be the case if
that’s the business operation’s desire. What we would be affording them is the ability to temporarily use
this space right here for outdoor dining.
Continuing along, there’s different traffic calming measures being implemented to narrow the street which is
what my mouse is traversing right now to just outline how the roadway will be narrowed. Getting to this
intersection here, this is the intersection of Water, it has been raised the question of, “Well can we have a
right turn lane through here”. The answer to that is, we will study it and if need be adjustments will be
made. We will evaluate that as necessary. You can still make right-hand turns that is not going to be re-
routed, you'll have through traffic. Then if you note, you'll have an ability to make a left here as well. So
there is ample capacity throughout this whole entire proposal to accommodate vehicular traffic. What you
are seeing from time to time, one-way completely through both north and south with the additional capacity
for turning lanes where it can be provided.
Continuing along, you will see again the purple representing where outdoor dining would take place and in
the green where you’d have that curbside type pick up. Curbside pick up would be along here, for San
