Alexandria Aldermen Adopt Ordinance to Regulate Parking on City Streets

The Alexandria City Council Tuesday night adopted on second and final reading regulations regarding parking on city streets.
The ordinance reads as follows” Whereas, the Town of Alexandria regulates the parking within the city limits; and
Whereas, there is no current code or ordinance regarding parking in the middle of the street.
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Alexandria that the Alexandria Municipal Codes is hereby added to as follows:
Section 1. Section 15-613: Stopping, standing, or parking on roadway. Upon any street or highway no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway or street, but in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of 200 feet in each direction upon such highway.
Section 15-614. Obstructing traffic. No person shall park any vehicle upon a street in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic.
Section 15-615. Parking on narrow streets.
(a). The city manager or his designee is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of a street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
(b) When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized in this section, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign.”
The ordinance will take effect upon installation of posted street signs.
In other business, the aldermen granted Police Chief Mark Collins’ request to purchase some new digital radios and traffic cones for the department. Chief Collins says the city has applied for a grant to help fund the purchase of the radios.
The aldermen awarded a bid to Roof Fix Incorporated for $6,200 to re-roof the city sewer plant.
Monica Thompson was hired by the aldermen to do some part time work in the office at city hall on Mondays and Thursdays. She will also be offered the city recorder position.
The city is looking to hire someone to pick up garbage, replacing Phillip Golden, who has quit. The position will be advertised.