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Show hmiflfld S)mhh Chamber of Commerce voices opposition to highway plans A majority of Springville business men are op-posed op-posed to the proposed parallel parking on Main i Street it was indicated this week when the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Kenneth Metcalf, presented a petition to the city council at their Monday Mon-day meeting. The parallel parking would be necessary nec-essary if the street were re-channeled to six lanes with center islands as planned. Signed by most of the Main Street business owners, own-ers, the petition was accompanied by several signed statements from Provo business firms stating they suffered a 10 percent loss of business from parallel parking in their area. Several Chamber of Commerce members attended at-tended the meeting and expressed themselves as being be-ing opposed to parallel parking especially south of Center Street. They indicated that the road should be cut down and no more layers added to the existing exist-ing five layers of concrete. They asked that serious consideration be given the petition and the council ' promised to write a letter to the district road engineer en-gineer to this effect. j I |