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Traffic Commission 6801 Delmar Boulevard, University City, Missouri 63130, Phone: (314) 862-6767, Fax: (314) 863-9146 study. The second comment was regarding how this issue becomes a policy decision depending on what all the parties desire. A third comment was how the businesses already considered all options and they prefer to have two-way traffic vs. parking at their front doors. A fourth comment, was a common perception that overall in the loop area there is a lot of parking available, but in the businesses’ immediate vicinity there is never enough parking (businesses frontage). Mr. Cannon explained that the street is approximately 27ft wide. In a typical residential street that is 27 ft wide, two-way traffic and parking on both sides of the street is allowed, due to the low traffic volume and less frequent use of parking; also, in residential streets this wide, the traffic lanes are not full two-way traffic lanes and that is generally why pavement stripping is not performed in residential streets. In residential streets with this configuration, “courtesy gaps” are given, where one vehicle has to pull over to the side to let the other car go through in the opposite direction. Melville Avenue is a commercial/residential high traffic volume location where there was a significant amount of parking utilization on both sides. Two-way traffic plus parking on both sides configuration will not work according to Mr. Cannon. A volume threshold that Mr. Cannon would not suggest to go over to implement the “courtesy gap” solution is between 2,000 or 2,500 vehicles per day, and even though current data is not available for this block of Melville Ave, it is Mr. Cannon’s guess that volume on Melville exceeds this threshold. Commissioner Brot wanted to recognized and applaud the plan developed and the effort to connect Ackert Walkway with the Greenway south through Melville Ave, with the wider sidewalks/trail. Walking should be promoted and the implementation of this project encourages walking. Mrs. Brot stated that new studies show more walkways and less parking in public infrastructure, and that business people are in agreement with this configuration. She also mentioned that there is a need for a disabled parking space and a system for truck deliveries. Mr. Cannon clarified the Loading Zone and Carry-out type of restriction and signing. Loading zone is for trucks and Carry-out is for customers. One option is to implement a 15 minute limit parking restriction for both situations. Commissioner Brot inquired information about the parking lot located behind the building west of Melville between Delmar Blvd and Loop south, to add one or two carry-out parking spaces at night. Mr. Duran explained they had a lot of difficulties with miss-parked cars on this private lot. Mr. Duran recommended a loading zone parking space on the east side of Melville or on Loop South. Commissioner Henderson stated that at the April 13, 2011 meeting, the Traffic Commission reviewed this item and voted in favor of prohibiting on-street parking on the west side of Melville Ave. between Kingsbury Ave. and Delmar Blvd., and, allow parking perpendicular to the direction of traffic on the south side of Loop South between Melville Ave. and Leland Ave. Traffic Commission Minutes – September 14, 2011 Page 4