To address the controversy about parking, the mayor’s office is designing an illustrated parking map which will be available as a brochure throughout the business district soon. That map will be displayed as a poster on the city’s trash cans.…
To address the controversy about parking, the mayor’s office is designing an illustrated parking map which will be available as a brochure throughout the business district soon. That map will be displayed as a poster on the city’s trash cans.…
Snowfall Expected Thursday & Friday The US National weather service has issued a Winter Storm warning for Otsego County which is expected to last until 1 a.m. on Saturday. Weather.com predicts that snow showers will begin at 4 p.m. this afternoon, Thursday, December 15. The City of Oneonta has issued an advisory that they expect significant snowfall and residents are not to park on the streets after there have been 2 1/2 inches of snowfall. The city parking garage and…
Again, Trustees Seek Input On Pioneer Street Parking By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Village residents will have to wait at least another month to see the Pioneer Street parking issue come to a close. At their meeting tonight, village trustees set a public hearing for their September meeting on the proposed parking layout for the northernmost section of Pioneer Street. The layout, proposed by the street committee, returns the street to parallel parking, and would create…
Trustees May Shelve Diagonal-Parking Idea By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Parking on lower Pioneer Street may soon be back to where it was. The Village Board’s Street Committee this evening planned to recommend “return to parallel parking” after two months of heated debate over installing diagonal parking there. A couple innovations in the proposed diagonal plan remain: One, designating the northernmost spot for handicapped parking. Two, reducing all-day parking to three-hour parking. The village streets committee,…
Trustees Can’t Decide Pioneer Parking Issue Pioneer Street neighbor Rick Hulse urges the Cooperstown Village Board to restore parallel parking on the northern section of Pioneer Street at this evening’s trustees’ meeting. The trustees decided in June to re-evaluate parking on the section of Pioneer Street closest to the lake, and conducted trial periods for two different parking schemes involving angled parking on the east side of the street at Lakefront Park. Residents living on the street immediately voiced displeasure,…
2 PUBLIC HEARINGS TONIGHT Trustees May Act On Diagonal Parking, Hotel COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board will hold two public hearings at 7 tonight at 22 Main, and perhaps act on one or both of the plans under consideration, according to Trustee Cindy Falk: Diagonal parking on lower Pioneer Street. Option 3, which resulted from neighbors’ objections at last month’s meeting, would shift diagonal parking to the north. Under the previous plan, headlights would be shining into the livingroom of…
Noise, Parking Spark Cooperstown Debate FULL STORY IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…