Comments on: Parking and Bump-outs Hot Topics at Sheldon City Council Meeting

By: johnny rotten

johnny rotten — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:22:40 +0000

you should get informed of what is going on with this project. there will be no “vote” for you to become distantly involved with. the city wants it to happen so they have reclassified it so that the property owners and buisness owners (and tax payers) have no choice. and your “good for Sheldon” quote? 22 less parking spaces, property tax increace, cost of service and product increase’s and possablity of buisnesses loss of revenue and or there busness entirly because of the out of pocket cost (sum as much as $20,000) and disruption during construction dosnt sound like it is so “good for sheldon” like you may think!

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:16:47 +0000

What’s good for Sheldon is a great attitude to have and I hope it’s never lost, but with that said I hope that nobody just votes yes “just because”. I hope you take the time to make sure it is really is the best thing for the people of the community. At the same time don’t complain about what is being done or what money is being spent if you don’t go to the public meetings to be heard. Getting involved is the only way you get the right to complain. Going back to the old parking is not going to happen because of the fact it allows for so many more parking spot in front of the store and this is a good thing. The parking angle can be changed so a person could see out the back window to see if anything is coming rather than having to back out far enough to see out the side window this would also add more room to the center of the road for cars that are meeting each other. The Bump Out are worthless. A bump out is the extension of the sidewalk into the intersection at the crosswalks. This makes for a traffic slowing device and allows for a shorter span in which a person has to walk on the traveled portion of the road. I yet to see anyone park on the east side of the street and walk all the way to the north or south crosswalk to cross the street just to walk all the way back to the center of the block on the west side of the street to get to the store they are going to. So this would mean that very few of the shoppers would even gain anything from the bump outs even being there. The two hour parking should be done in the two main parking lot that were built mostly for this use. Chocking tires to catch offenders is not going to happen. Our officers have more important things to do than mark tires in today’s society. If the store owners have a problem with vehicles sitting for long periods of time they should just call in the plates and let things take its course. When it becomes too much of an in convents for the officers or the store owners things will change. I have said this before: All we need is better angle of parking with a smooth surface in which to park and walk on with good lighting and leave all the other crap for another town to deal with.

By: FFDG

FFDG — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:37:03 +0000

The biggest improvement we could make to our downtown area is to change the angle parking on one side of the streets back to parallel parking on both sides. Our streets are not wide enough for today’s larger pickups and vans. It is hard to see traffic when backing out of an angle parking space and meeting larger vehicles in traffic can be a close fit at times, besides the fact that it looks pretty ridiculous.

By: Hadaway

Hadaway — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:11:24 +0000

Just a question…but what are bump outs?

By: TDS

TDS — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:18:25 +0000

When was the last time a pedestrian was injured by a vehicle downtown? I know I can’t remember one…the bumpouts providing pedestrian safety is as big of a joke as the idea that this streetscape plan is going to bring people downtown to shop!

By: Pro Sheldon

Pro Sheldon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:58:32 +0000

If its good for Sheldon I’m all for it.
I plan on voting yes when we have the citywide vote to approve this 1.5 million dollar project.