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Show Council Limits Main St. Parking Effective December 20 see where we've got that big a problem." Councilman Martinez said he would vote against the proposal, propo-sal, but a vote was not taken as Mayor Green stated: "We don't have to lake a vote on regulating traffic patterns." City Manager Wayne Matthews Mat-thews said Monday that the new "No Parking" signs had been ordered, but he stated the success or failure of the regulations would depend heavily on the reaction of the public. "It's going to take the cooperation of everybody to make this work." Noting that it would take a few weeks to "educate" people to the new system. Matthews also observed: "It's going to put an additional burden on the police department." Park City Police Chief Mike Crowley agreed with that, telling tell-ing the Record that initially the department may issue "courtesy "cour-tesy citations" to call people's attention to the regulations. Estimating that employee's were "eating up 25 percent of the Main Street parking." Crowley also stated he hoped the two-hour parking limit would encourage business people to use Swede. Alley. Citing the safety hazards created by congestion, the chief agreed that the time had come for the city to address the parking issue. "At times congestion is to the point where it might be impossible to get an emergency emer-gency vehicle up Main Street." However Crowley, like other city officials, agreed that the new regulations might not be the last word on the Main Street issue. And, calling his recommendation recommen-dation a "compromise." Councilman Coun-cilman Dering told the Record: "I don't think this r. necessarily necessar-ily the optimum so'ution, but it's better than nothing." Mayor Green concluded: "If anyone has a better idea than this, we'll go along w:th it." In an attempt to eliminate traffic congestion and facilitate snow removal. Park City Mayor Jack Green has announced that n irking will be prohibited on the west side of Main Street, effective Wednesdav. Dec. 20. In addition, acting on a recommendation by Steve Dering. Der-ing. councilman in charge of streets, the city will also place a two-hour parking limit on the cast side of the street, between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Overnight parking anywhere on Main Street will continue to be prohibited from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. to leave room for snow removal. "We don't say this is absolutely abso-lutely right, but we've got to do something," said Mavor Green in announcing the new regulations at Thursday's council coun-cil meeting. Under the new ordinance, which is drawing fire from some Main Street merchants (see story this page), loading zones for delivery vehicles will be designated along the west side of the street and prominent promi-nent signs will direct motorists to parking available in Swede Alley. Main Street traffic will remain re-main two-way. something favored fav-ored by those attending a public hearing on the parking issue in November. A priority wHl be place on clearing snow from Swede Alley, and another public hearing hear-ing will be held 30 days after the regulations go into effect, to determine if the program should be continued. At Thursday's council meeting, meet-ing, opposition to the plan was voiced by councilman Richard Martinez, who stated: "I can't lb...' i j itV- STiIrI - |