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Concerns raised at the September Warsaw Traffic Commission meeting about the city parking lot between Buffalo and Indiana streets have been addressed.
“The bottom line is, that after reviewing the current use of the parking lot, and what was going on there, I’m happy to say that we’re doing a good job,” Traffic Commission Administrator Steve Foster said at Wednesday’s meeting, adding that the lot has been resurfaced and restriped.
Foster said an inquiry about signage in the parking lot and use of the lot came through City Councilman Jeff Grose, to City Planner Jeremy Skinner and then was brought to the September traffic commission meeting. After that meeting, Foster said some of the commission members got together and looked at the lot, drawings and some numbers.
Street Superintendent Jeff Beeler said new signs for the lot are coming.
Mayor Joe Thallemer said the downtown parking group got together to make sure the lot had the proper number of spots for the proper times and parking.
“We felt that after reviewing the use of those spots, that it was good; we just needed to improve communication with some lines as far as some different color striping as well as some maybe newer signs and consistent signage,” he said.
The city had planned to wait until the spring to redo the parking lot, Thallemer said, but there were several days of 80-degree weather and Beeler told the mayor he could reseal the lot then before it was restriped.
Skinner brought up a concern from a resident in the Timber Ridge subdivision about speeding in that area. The resident told Skinner that there were no speed limit signs.
Foster said there are signs on both sides of the street and that the posted speed limit is 25 mph.
Since the subdivision only has cul de sacs, Foster said, “The only people who would be using that roadway are people who have a reason to be there.”
Beeler said, “The person that made the request didn’t even realize the signs were already in place, which kind of goes to the testament that people really don’t pay attention to signs unless it’s enforced. I don’t know if adding new signage or changing signage is going to change anything.”
Beam said the police department can increase patrols in the area.
Foster said the WPD can work on enforcing the speed limit for now and revisit the issue later if necessary.
In another issue, Beeler said there were no stop signs at the exits from Goodwill onto Anchorage Road. The road in front of Goodwill is Anchorage Point Drive.
“We just need to get them installed,” he said.
The stop signs would be at the northwest corners of Anchorage Point Drive and Road on the west and east sides.
The Traffic Commission approved a recommendation to the city council to pass an ordinance putting those stop signs in place.
Thallemer said that ordinance would probably be voted on at the council’s next meeting, which is at 7 p.m. Nov. 6.
Thallemer swore in WPD Sgt. Lewis Fuller to the commission as a representative of the police department. Fuller replaces Capt. Kip Shuter, who retired in September.
The next Traffic Commission meeting is at 1 p.m. Dec. 6.
