The Seymour Common Council thoroughfare and drainage committee recently met to address a handful of requests.
Earlier this month, Mark Echard and Jeff Ellis with the Coventry Place homeowners association shared some concerns with the council to see if the city could help.
During the Jan. 22 council meeting, committee Chairman Drew Storey said it was the committee’s recommendation to take no action at this time on the Coventry Drive repave or repair on account of the city’s Community Crossings Matching Grant management plan. The city uses a rating system to determine the streets in most need of attention and seeks matching grant funds based on that.
“We want to continue to follow that strategy,” Storey said.
The committee also recommended no action at this time on speed reduction devices and lowering the speed limit in the subdivision on the west side of Seymour.
“We felt like volume may have been an issue, and we are still waiting for some of the details to come back,” Storey said, noting police put a sign in place to collect data.
The committee also wants more data from police before making any specific recommendations regarding a four-way stop at Kensington and Coventry drives, and Storey said a preliminary engineering assessment, including right of way, utilities and feasibility, will be performed in preparation for any future grants for the proposed sidewalk on the Coventry Drive median.
Echard also said some of the light poles needed to be painted. Clerk-Treasurer Darrin Boas said he had been in contact with Duke Energy, and the company put a work order in to paint them since it owns them.
Another issue addressed by the committee was a request to rename Katy Drive to Joan Drive in the Ashwood subdivision on the city’s southeast side.
During a December meeting, Georgiann Coons made the request in honor of her mother, Joan Hunley Pfaffenberger, who died of breast cancer in 1998. She said her late uncle, George Pfaffenberger, developed the subdivision, and all of the streets in it are named after members of her family. Her mother is the only one who does not have a street named after her.
At the time, the city had recently finished the process of renaming County Road 975N to Katy Drive. Required as part of the annexation process, Mayor Matt Nicholson said streets need to have names instead of a number when they are within city limits. In this case, he said it would take quite a bit of work to rename it again.
At the recent council meeting, Storey said the committee recommended not taking any action on the name change at this time.
Another request came from The Fish Stand. That business asked for a review of parking along Fifth Street to see if it could go from flat to diagonal and also having a 15-minute parking space in front of the building along Ewing Street.
Storey said the committee recommends having city Engineer Bernie Hauersperger review the parking configuration and parking restriction.
Yet another request was considering making the intersection of Fourth and Ewing streets a four-way stop. Currently, only traffic traveling east and west on Fourth Street stops at a stop sign, and traffic going north and south on Ewing Street does not stop. Ewing Street also is State Road 11.
Storey said the committee agrees with this request and will have Hauersperger look at that, too.
Finally, a request was submitted to look at the four-way stop at Burkart Boulevard and O’Brien Street. Nicholson told Storey that plans are underway to address issues at the intersection.