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Proposed parking regulation advances to City Council

RANDOLPH — The Randolph planning commission met Feb. 3 and approved the draft of an ordinance to advance to the City Council Feb. 5 for approval.

No audience members attended the open meeting.

The items discussed including a limit on trees and obstructions such as various types of vehicles parked where drivers have difficulty seeing around them. 

The group also is considering defining how to allow some vehicles to be parked a little closer to streets.

Individual citizens can apply for a variance of the city’s ordinance.

The ordinance is for recreational vehicles, trailers or equipment. 

No recreational vehicles, trailers or equipment shall be used for dwelling purposes on any lot except as may be authorized elsewhere. Such vehicles, trailers or equipment may be parked in the required front or side-yard setback, provided that the following conditions are met: 

- The recreational vehicle, trailer or equipment is parked on the primary driveway or on an improved surface immediately adjoining the primary driveway.

- No sidewalk is blocked or imposed upon.

- No part of the recreational vehicle, trailer, or equipment is within 10’ of a street edge.

Another ordinance about traffic visibility was tabled and will be refined at a March 31 meeting at 6:30 p.m., in the city office.

This proposed ordinance is about obstructing sight and improving traffic safety. It also applies to construction equipment. 

Present language of the ordinance that has yet to be decided upon includes:

“On a corner lot in all districts except residential and C-1 commercial business district, continuous and unobstructed sight distance shall be provided for safe traffic operations. No obstructions, including fences, hedges, walls, shrubbery, or other manmade or natural obstructions, shall exist between a height of two and one-half and 10 feet within a sight triangle. No part of a recreational vehicle, trailer, or equipment parked near an alley infringes upon a sight triangle measuring 20 feet from the edges of each nearest intersecting street.’’

A diagram is also included in the existing ordinance being looked at by the committee, however, the group was in favor of possibly removing the diagram.

These ordinances were discussed at an earlier Jan. 6 meeting.

Mayor George Bradley suggested the group look at a solution for the intersection near Diversified Insurance and The Randolph Times. 

The group decided a four-way stop would not be recommended there, but another solution should be found.

Brent Billerbeck was assigned the task of parking his pickup on the city street and taking a picture to see how a parallel parking solution would work in some areas of downtown Randolph.

The April 1 city council meeting at 6:30 p.m., in the city office, may be the forum for possibly adopting a refined version of the ordinance.

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