Orleans City Council Discusses Speed Limits & Parking
Orleans City Council Discusses Speed Limits & Parking
February 16, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Orleans)– The Orleans City Council Monday evening approved the first reading of a revised ordinance that pertains to speed limits in the city. Mayor Bill Maas tells KUOO news it would set the new limit at 25 mph on all streets in the city with one exception…(cut 6612-001…q…
“The issue has been that we do not have 25 mile per hour on all of our residential areas. The Code of Iowa says we should be doing that. The state will not come in and force us to do that, but it is the feeling of the majority of council members at the present time that we need to do that anyway, to not only protect our citizens but also to protect us from litigation should some accident happen or something.”
Maas says the matter will come back to the council’s next regular meeting for a second reading.
On another issue, he says there was also renewed discussion over parking along 140th Street on the south side of Big Spirit Lake between the fish hatchery and pump house…
“That actually was no parking both sides at one time and the citizens came to us about utilizing part of that to be able to park there because it is a congested area. We gave them a temporary way to park on the south side of the street and this is simply a discussion from that previous, those previous meetings last summer. The street is destined to, in the next few years, be redone because it is starting to fall apart a little bit as streets will do. Right now it appears that what we’re going to allow is parallel parking, single file parallel parking, on the south side of that area.”
Maas says the new road will include provisions for additional parking.
