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THE TEXAN NEWSPAPER
FEBRUARY 8, 1985
5
Houston still open
By Karl Doerner ID
A flood of comments
had delayed adoption of
a proposed street clos-
ing policy fot Houston.
That’s the word from
Houston City Council-
man Jim Greenwood,
chairman of the city’s
Street Closing Policy
Committee.
Greenwood told The
Texan this week that the
vote on the proposed
policy by the full 15-
member council has
been delayed indefi-
nitely because “we have
gotten a lot of com-
ments” on it.
Greenwood said he
has gotten about 30
comments, mostly from
area civic clubs.
“I am going through
the comments,” Green-
wood said. “Most of the
comments are positive.
One comment -- from
the Houston Apartment
Association — suggests a
couple of changes. 1 may
call another committee
meeting to discuss those
changes. 1 hey seem to
be fairly minor.”
Greenwood said he
now has “no definite
date” for the vote of the
full council, which must
be done before the
policy becomes law.
Greenwood told The
Texan in December that
the policy would be
voted on by the full
council “the first or
second week of next
month.”
The proposed policy,
which was approved by
Greenwood’s five-coun-
cilman committee in
November, calls for
allowing the director of
the city’s Traffic and
Transportation Depart-
ment to close off resi-
dential streets in the city
when residents of the
streets request that they
be closed.
"Whenever the traffic
engineer (the director of
the Traffic and Trans-
portation Department)
determines that a large
percentage of the resi-
dents of a particular
area which is predomi-
nantly residential in
character perceive that
unnecessary vehicular
traffic within the neigh-
borhood is causing a
significant problem, he
shall instruct his staff to
conduct an appropriate
investigation of the traf-
fic situation within the
area,” reads the six-
page document, which
liua drawn up bjr iliv
city's Planning and
Development and Traf-
fic and Transportation
departments.
“If, based on the
results of the investiga-
tion, the traffic engineer
determines that there is
a significant vehicular
traffic problem in the
neighborhood and that
the problem can be
reduced or eliminated
by the imposition of new
or additional traffic
regulations or instal-
lation or construction of
traffic control structures
ui devices, liicii he shah
develop a written plan
for the neighborhood,”
the proposal continues.
“The traffic engine-
er’s plan may include,
but is not limited to,
provisions for the use of
any of the following
traffic regulations or
traffic control structures
or devices: parking re-
strictions, through-truck
restrictions, yield signs,
stop signs, traffic sig-
nals, channelization,
islands, diverters, one-
way streets, turn-
restriction signs, street
narrowing, necked inter-
sections, one-way
entrance or exit into a
two-way street, con-
struction of cul-de-sacs
and closing of streets.”
The Street Closing
Policy Committee has
been working on the
draft policy for more
than a year.
Houston Mayor Kathy
Whitmire appointed the
committee in October of
1983 to formulate a
policy for handling
street closing requests
throughout the city after
the Southgate Civic Club
went before council to
request that three
streets in their neigh-
borhood -- Addison,
uryden and iwitt -- be
closed to through traffic.
The club wanted to
have the three streets
blocked off to prevent
expected traffic created
by a new commercial
complex near their
neighborhood, Travis
Centre, from coming
into their neighborhood.
Council voted to delay
action on the Southgate
request until a citywide
street closing policy
could be formulated.
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