The City of College Station plans to ask the City Council on Nov. 16 to end on-street parking along parts of four Southside streets, saying the roads are too narrow for parked cars, emergency vehicles and garbage trucks to share.
The affected stretches are in the Southside area, below and to the southwest of the Texas A&M campus. All of them measure 20 to 24 feet across, according to city officials quoted by Chron.
The four streets
The proposal covers:
- Angus Street, on the south side from Montclair Avenue to Fairview Avenue and on the north side from Fairview Avenue to Welsh Avenue
- Newton Road, on both sides
- Kerry Street, at the southeast corner where it meets Fairview Avenue
- Park Place, from Glade Street to Holik Street
The Public Works Department held an open house on the changes at City Hall on Oct. 15. Senior traffic engineer Randall Smith told Chron the city "did not receive any opposition" at that meeting and would take the removals to the council on Nov. 16.
Smith said the review began after a resident raised concerns about the width of the roads. On Park Place, he said, the city is also fixing ordinances that were missing and shifting parking to a single side of the street near Wellborn Road, which he said would let solid waste pickup happen on one side and bring parking back near Luther Jones Park.
