With the opening of Creekside School,
there will be some changes in traffic on Yankee and Fifth Streets and Yellowstone Place.
I talked to Cheryl Johnson, Public Works Director, today, so I thought I'd pass
along the information.
Plans at present are that there will
be a stop sign on Yellowstone
Place at Fifth
Street, and a stop sign on Yankee at Fifth Street, as
well as one on Washington Street
at Fifth. Fifth, although it's only a couple of blocks long hereabouts, will be
regarded as a "through street" so all streets entering it will have
stop signs.
Also, the plan is to prohibit
parking on Fifth between Yankee Street and
the school. This should be beneficial to us and should also discourage parents
from coming up Fifth to drop off their children. The school is determined to
get parents to use the main, east entrance to drop off their kids. The Fifth Street
entrance is to be for faculty and school buses only.
Meanwhile, the City is going to build
some handicapped entrances to sidewalks on Yellowstone and at the corner of
Yankee and Fifth behind the Rec
Center. The City is also
going to be tearing up some of the landscaping our neighbor Dorothy Gugel has done along Fifth Street, to extend
the sidewalk on the west side of Fifth toward the apartment complex there, also
installing a railing over the drainage ditch. This will be done at no cost to
the landowners. Next year, the plan is to extend this sidewalk to Washington Street,
assessing property owners. But this year kids walking to school will have to
walk on the sidewalk behind the Rec Center and cross Fifth to get to the west
side and then cross Yellowstone to get to the school. This is not exactly ideal
and it means Dorothy will be losing
some of her plantings, though the City says they will help transplant some
things.
Work on the sidewalk is going to begin
on Monday (8/1/11).
Lorraine Collins
President
