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  CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEMO
MEETING DATE: 3/19/2024
DEPARTMENT:Engineering-Transportation
DIRECTOR:B. Caleb Thornhill, P.E., Director of Engineering
AGENDA ITEM:

Establishes no parking zones along Allied Drive, Grandview Drive, Pebble Vale Drive, and Potomac Drive

RECOMMENDED ACTION:Adoption of Ordinances

ITEM SUMMARY

To amend Section 12-101, Prohibited on certain streets at all times, Article V, Stopping, Standing and Parking, Chapter 12, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the City of Plano Code of Ordinances to establish no parking zones along Allied Drive, Grandview Drive, Pebble Vale Drive, and Potomac Drive, within the city limits of the City of Plano; and providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a severability clause, a savings clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Adopted Ordinance No. 2024-3-3

 

 

BACKGROUND

Allied Drive is a forty-four-foot-wide minor collector street with Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano on the east side and a hospital parking lot and a hotel on the west side.

 

When vehicles are parked along the east side of the street, it impedes flow of traffic and sight distance of motorists exiting parking lots and pedestrians crossing the street between the hospital parking lot and the hospital.

 

Grandview Drive is a thirty-six-foot-wide minor collector street with Wilson Middle School on the north side and residences on the south side.

 

During school arrival and dismissal, when vehicles are parked on the north side of the street near the driveway where school buses enter the school, school buses have difficulty maneuvering through the area.

 

Pebble Vale Drive is a thirty-six-foot-wide minor collector street with an apartment complex on the west side and residential neighborhoods on the east side.

 

When vehicles are parked along the west side of the street, it impedes flow of traffic and sight distance of motorists exiting the apartment complex.

 

Potomac Drive is a twenty-six-foot-wide residential street in a residential neighborhood.

 

When vehicles are parked along both sides of the street, it impedes flow of traffic and sight distance of motorists exiting the alley located west of the intersection.

 

The Transportation Engineering Division evaluated these locations and recommends an amendment to a certain section of the Code of Ordinances to establish no parking zones along and upon the east side of Allied Drive, the north side of Grandview Drive, the west side of Pebble Vale Drive, and both sides of Potomac Drive.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY/STRATEGIC GOALS

This item may impact revenue collected from parking fines due to the implementation of parking restrictions; however, the exact change in revenue is indeterminable and will have minimal impact on the General Fund budget.

 

Approval of this item to establish no parking zones supports the City's Strategic Plan Critical Success Factor of Safe, Vibrant Neighborhoods.

ATTACHMENTS:
DescriptionUpload DateType
Ordinance3/8/2024Ordinance
Map3/6/2024Map