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WHEELING - A new ordinance is scheduled to be introduced before Wheeling City Council tonight to bring temporary relief to parking issues on Water Street near Heritage Port and the busy Waterfront Hall.
Members of the Development Committee of Wheeling City Council recently supported a proposal from Dan Milleson, owner of Waterfront Hall, to reconfigure the traffic and parking situation along Water Street. Milleson said patrons to the new Waterfront Hall and its tenants Avenue Eats and Wood Fired Pizza Co. have been getting $25 parking tickets during the day for parking along the western side of Water Street. Parking on this side is only permitted in the evenings and on weekends.
Because of the limited width of the roadway, the proposal is to change the traffic flow on this section of Water Street to one-way traffic with parking on both sides of the road. The new ordinance slated for a first reading tonight will be to establish a two-hour parking zone on the west side of the street and create a one-way traffic flow going northbound along Water Street between 14th and 12th streets.
Officials noted that this will be a short-term solution to this parking issue.
Members of Wheeling City Council are scheduled to gather for their first regular meeting for the month of March beginning at 5:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 5, in council chambers at the City-County Building at 1500 Chapline St. downtown.
Another new ordinance up for a first reading tonight will authorize the city manager to expend $630,585 with Cast and Baker of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, for street resurfacing. This expense is to be charged to the city’s general fund.
Cast and Baker was the low bidder for the street paving project. By comparison, Semper Fi Paving of Bridgeport submitted a bid in the amount of $749,983.
In the previous fiscal year, the city moved forward with a massive paving effort that included several alleys in the city for the first time in many years. That $1.8 million contract was completed in different phases, with a number of streets and alleys paved through the fall and the remainder of them completed in the spring.
With this paving contract being awarded in the winter, the paving is all expected to begin in April and be completed at once, officials indicated. The West Virginia Division of Highways is also expected to pave Main Street downtown in June as part of the ongoing Streetscape project.
Another ordinance scheduled for a first reading tonight will authorize a $146,000 expenditure with Environmental Standards, doing business as Montrose of Wheeling, for the purpose of site assessment of the city’s property on 19th Street in East Wheeling, with $115,000 to be charged to the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection Brownfield Revolving Loan and Grant, and $31,000 to the city’s Project Fund. Potential reimbursement will be sought through the W.Va. DEP Voluntary Remediation Program.
Also on tonight’s agenda, a new ordinance is slated to be introduced to award an $83,000 contract with O’Brien’s Companies of Wheeling for sandblasting of city pools, including the 36th Street, Grandview Heights, Wheeling Island and Warwood Garden Park pools. This expenditure is to be charged to the American Rescue Plan Act fund.
Three resolutions pertaining to applications for Facade Improvement Grants are also on tonight’s agenda. Council is expected to vote tonight to approve $15,000 Facade Improvement Grants for projects by Tanli Holdings LLC for 102 Carmel Road, Christopher Battle for 727-729 Market St. and Ken Sexton for 21 Eighth St.