HomeMy WebLinkAbout2744 RESOLUTION NO. 2744
A RESOLUTION declaring that a portion of Chester
Avenue and the alley adjacent to the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard be one-way streets.
WHEREAS, the City desires to provide additional on-street parking on the
east side of Chester Avenue south of Gregory Street; and
WHEREAS, to allow for traffic circulation and emergency access on
Chester Avenue with the additional parking, that portion of Chester Avenue must
become a northbound one-way street; and
WHEREAS, to make the directional traffic flow in the area work, the alley
south of Gregory Street adjacent to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard between State
Avenue and Chester Avenue must be converted to an eastbound one-way street; and
WHEREAS, City staff held a public meeting on the one-way street
proposal for this area on January 25, 2000; and
WHEREAS, the City Traffic Safety Committee endorsed the one-way
street concept on this portion of Chester Avenue and the alley adjacent to the Puget
Sound Naval Shipyard at its meeting of February 17, 2000; and
WHEREAS, RCW 46.61.135 and WAC 308-330-207 authorize the City
Council to determine and declare one-way streets for streets under City control
following engineering and traffic investigations;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF
BREMERTON CITY COUNTCIL THAT:
1. Chester Avenue south of Gregory Street to its terminus at the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard be one-way northbound.
2. The alley south of Gregory Street adjacent to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
between State Avenue and Chester Avenue be one-way eastbound.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this 8th day of
March, 2000.
CAROL ARENDS, Council President
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T~FFIC MODIFICATiON ON CHESTER AVENUE
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BE~EEN STATE AVENUE AND CHESTER AVENUE