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Wheeling Traffic Commission Achieves Quorum, Hears Requests

Photo by Joselyn King Wheeling Traffic Commission members Patrick Duffy, left, Alan Duvall, Ron King and Lloyd Adams consider matters during Thursday’s meeting.

All four members of the Wheeling Traffic Commission attended the group’s Thursday meeting after it failed to reach a quorum last week.

The meeting was the first for new Traffic Commission member Lloyd Adams. In addition to Adams, Patrick Duffy Allan Duvall and Ron King attended the meeting. The commission has one vacancy.

King and Duvall were the only members who attended the Aug. 9 meeting, when several people were able to present their requests but the board could not take action.

On Thursday, the commission considered several matters with business back to normal. The commission recommended parking be banned on the west side of Jayson Street from Glen Hollin Road to Faircrest.

The measure will next move on for approval by Wheeling City Council.

“We have been having issues with parking blocking both sides of the street to the point it is impossible for emergency vehicles to access,” said Tim Birch, city director of operations.

If approved by council, all parking would be banned on the west side at all times, he said.

The commission also recommended approval for a three-way stop sign to be placed at Betty Street and McClure Avenue.

“I don’t have a problem with it,” Birch said. “With a three-dimensional stop, we can make sure there is equal traffic in all directions. It is a very residential area, and I think it will fit that area quite easily.

“That neighborhood is pretty void of stop signs, anyway, so I don’t see a problem with it,” he said.

A request for a handicapped parking spot in front of the residence of Arlene and Carl Nickerson, 42 Biltmore Ave., also was approved.

Members recommended the removal of a handicapped parking spot on a hillside near the office of Seeing Hand, but tabled a second motion to establish a new parking spot in front of Seeing Hand specific to cars.

Birch said vehicles larger than a car — such as vans equipped for those with physical limitations — could obstruct the view of drivers.

Deputy Police Chief Martin Kimball said he didn’t think the cars-only provision would be enforceable. He said Seeing Hand presently parks its van in a nearby city lot, and he wondered if a handicapped parking spot also could be designated there.

“The lot isn’t full,” Kimball said.

Birch said he would check with parking lot management to see if a handicapped spot there would be possible.

Members then moved to table the issue until the board’s next meeting, scheduled for 2 p.m. Sept. 13.

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