Drivers who park along some of the narrowest streets in College Station's Southside neighborhood would lose those spots under an ordinance the City Council is scheduled to consider Monday, Nov. 16.
The proposal adds no-parking zones on parts of Park Place, Angus Street, Kerry Street and Newton Road. City staff say the goal is to keep room for fire engines, garbage trucks and other city vehicles, and to improve sight lines at corners. Staff recommend approval.
The changes follow the city's on-street parking removal policy, in effect since Nov. 24, 2025, which allows parking to be taken off local residential streets narrower than 27 feet.
Street by street
Angus Street. Parking is already banned on both sides between Welsh Avenue and Ayrshire Street, and on one side of the neighboring blocks. The fire department and code enforcement officers have raised emergency access there several times, so staff propose closing the other side too. That means no parking would be allowed on either side from Montclair Avenue to Ayrshire Street. Those blocks are 18 to 24 feet wide.
Newton Road. The one-way street between Dexter Drive and George Bush Drive runs 12 to 22 feet wide and has no parking limits now. Parking would be banned in both directions. Staff note that the off-street lots used by residents and church attendees there would not change.
Park Place. Between Holik and Glade streets, a 24-foot stretch would lose parking on its remaining side to keep both travel lanes open. Between Glade and Timber streets, where bike lanes run on both sides, parking would be banned on the northeast side as well, with new bike-lane signs. Closer to Wellborn Road, staff want to stop the block-by-block alternating of the no-parking side. Near Luther Jones Park and on the block between Maryem and Highlands streets, parking would move to the northeast side; staff say cars parked outside newly built homes on the southwest side of the Maryem-Highlands block now block garbage collection.
Kerry Street. Parking would end on the northeast side within the first 40 feet past Fairview Avenue, where the street narrows from 30 to 27 feet. Residents had raised sight-distance concerns, and a staff study backed them up.
