A heads up on the Jefferson Avenue construction from the City of Richmond Department of Public Works:
WHAT: Lane Closure
WHEN: Monday, May 11 through Tuesday, June 30, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: The following intersections will be impacted:
· Jefferson Avenue at Clay and 22nd Streets
· Jefferson Avenue and 23rd Street
· Jefferson Avenue and 24th Street
BACKGROUND: As part of the City’s ongoing efforts to calm traffic in certain areas, crews will be installing traffic circles in the listed areas. There will be intermittent lane closures as the work is being completed, and every effort will be made to minimize all possible construction impacts on the surrounding community.
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Oh what will the park-and-ride commuters do? I’m trying to work on understanding how Fan and Jackson Ward petitioned getting 2hr parking. I’ve called Permits and Planning and, as you would expect, no one will call me back. Hoping to get in on Marshall (before 1903 gets built) and the streets around the park. Anybody have contacts on the inside? The Circle will be step one on making Jefferson great. Solving the daytime parking issue will be another.
Have you brought this up to the Union Hill Civic Association?
So your telling me they are going to do all these circles by June?
The Jefferson circle near Alamo is bigger than the nine mile/25th circle and that thing has been going on for months….
I’ll believe when I see it
Why all the effort on these circles when they can’t even pay for the grass to be cut??
I image the large circle is in the 100s of thousands of dollars
RT @chpn: Construction will impact Jefferson Avenue through June http://t.co/uq2Na9b7oD
Stay positive, people.
@3: Funding for the Jefferson Ave project comes from a budget that’s earmarked specifically for traffic calming/road way capital improvements. Total project budget is under $100K per estimate from Traffic Engineering.
@1, recently, a neighbor shared the info below about parking:
—–Original Message—–
From: Bergin, Steven A. – DPW
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:04 AM
To: Patterson, Samuel – City Council Liaison
Subject: RE: Permit Parking
Hello Sam,
The chapter is 102 and the code section 301 through 302. Here is code section 301 and process for establishing a residential parking district.
1) Written documentation that the proposed district has insufficient on-street parking for persons who reside within the proposed district
2) Written documentation that outlines the proposed parking
district, which should be a minimum of ten contiguous block faces
3) Written documentation from a majority of the affected
associations representing the properties within the proposed district, and property owners within the proposed district approving of the outlined parking district; provided, however, that, where written documentation is submitted indicating that fewer than 60 percent of the properties within the proposed district are owner-occupied, then such approval shall be required from a majority of the associations and a
majority of the occupants of the properties in such proposed district rather than from a majority of the property owners in the proposed district; and
4) Upon receipt of the petition, a survey of the proposed block
faces will be conducted. The survey will determine if the following requirements are met;
a. 75% of the curb side parking spaces are occupied on week days, and
b. 35% of the parked vehicles are from outside the
residential neighborhood
5) Upon receipt and verification of the above information, the
director of public works shall prepare an ordinance within 90 days of receipt of a complete application to establish a restricted parking district. Following approval of a district, the director of finance shall develop an implementation plan and administer the implementation of the issuance of the permits as prescribed in the ordinance that establishes the district within 90 days of the adoption of the ordinance to residents of the district. The director of public works shall cause the parking regulations in the district to be changed to reflect the change in restricted parking. Once approved, 12 months must elapse before any new application to make significant modification to or terminate a residential restricted parking district will be considered. At the request of the association, the director of public works may modify the boundary for existing residential parking permit districts
after the district has been in effect for 12 months.
Thanks,
Steven D. Bergin
Department of Public Works
Parking Division
900 E. Broad Street, Room 102
Richmond, VA 23219
(O) 804.646.3724
Nice share, Elaine…good info.
From Mary Field:
I understand there was some confusion regarding the status of the Jefferson Ave. traffic calming project at the recent UHCA meeting. I thought the community, as a whole, might be interested in an update.
The project has been temporarily put on hold until after the Bike Races. Both the 9 Mile/25th st. project and the Jefferson Ave project were awarded to the same contractor (Simmons). Delays in completion of the 9 Mile/25th St. project pushed the starting date for Jefferson Ave. back so much that it became apparent the it could not be completed prior to the start of the races. The decision was to postpone it rather than have Jefferson Ave in a state of chaos during the races.
This information can be confirmed by Maritza Feliz-Reyes, the project manager. Her email is maritza.reyes@richmondgov.net.