General News: Public Hearing on Maple St. Parking
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| Parking on Maple Street will be the subject of a public hearing. |
October 16, 2008
A restriction on parking on Maple Street in Cornwall will be the subject of a public hearing on October 21 at 6:45 p.m.
The Cornwall town board set the hearing at its meeting on Tuesday evening following a debate among the board members about whether a no-parking zone on both sides of the street is necessary.
Cornwall police chief Todd Hazard has proposed making a no-parking zone on both sides of Maple Street between Laurel and Canterbury Avenues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. He says that buses have a difficult time rounding the corner from Laurel when vehicles are parked on Maple. He also said that pedestrians are forced to walk in the middle of the street when cars are parked there.
Most of the vehicles parked on Maple Street appear to belong to people who work at the Cornwall hospital complex. Town board member Mary Beth Greene Krafft suggested that once the cancer care center is built, the parking crunch will ease up and she questioned whether the creation of a no-parking zone was a permanent response to a temporary problem.
Town supervisor Kevin Quigley and council member Randy Clark, who lives on Maple Street, both favor the no-parking zone.
The public will be able to share their opinions next Tuesday evening at the public hearing.
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