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Consider adopting Ordinance No. 3366 amending the City of Farmers Branch Code of Ordinances, Chapter 82, Traffic and Vehicles, Article II, Division 6, Section 82-95, amending No Parking Zones on portions of Richland Avenue; and take appropriate action.
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BACKGROUND:
This city has been notified that during recent events at or around Cox Park, property owners exiting Sundown Trail, Stardust Lane and Birchlawn Drive onto Richland Avenue are experiencing site visibility issues with oncoming traffic due to cars being parked along the north side of Richland Avenue between Dennis Lane and Birchlawn Drive. The City Council approved an ordinance in 1971 prohibiting parking along the south side of Richland Avenue from its intersection on the east side of Goodwater Street to the point of its intersection with the west side of Birchlawn Drive.
DISCUSSION:
City staff and the Police Department have determined vehicles parked along the north side of Richland Avenue between Dennis Lane and Birchlawn Drive create site visibility issues for vehicles entering and exiting the streets along Sundown Trail, Stardust Lane and Birchlawn Drive.
In the interest and safety of our residents, and to allow better traffic movement along Richland Avenue, City Administration recommends amending the Code of Ordinances by establishing a no parking zone along the north side of Richland Avenue between its east intersection of Dennis Lane and its west intersection of Birchlawn Drive. City Administration also recommends that the prohibition of parking on the south side of Richland Avenue between Goodwater Street and Dennis Lane be maintained, but that the Code of Ordinances be amended to remove the no parking zone on Richland Avenue between Dennis Lane and Birchlawn Drive. The net affect will be to move the cars presently parking on the north side of Richland Avenue between Dennis Lane and Birchlawn Drive to the south side of the street between those same intersections.
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