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~16 TUESDAY JANUARY 10, 1956 Council, in receiving the following Planning Commission report, indicated its concurrence with respe et to the recormnended traffic changes and suggested that the portion of said renort dealing with the proposed widening of the east side of starling Avenue from I.rartirnvi11e General Hospital's emergency entrance to Church Street might be given consideration during the preparation of the 1956-57 budget: On November 22, 1955, the Planning Commission rocormnended to the City Council that a request from the First Baptist Church of this City for widening of Starling Avenue be denied. In that letter, the Connission also advjBed Council that a traffic study had been made at the inter- section of Mulberry and Starling Avenue and Starling Avenue and Church Street and that as a result of this study the Planning Commission would, at a later date, consider cert2.in recommenda.tions to Council with respect to improve::uerrts in the flow of traffic on t:ulberry, Starling Avenue and Church Street. The Planning Comnission, meeting in regular session December 28, 1955, did consider all of the problems relating to the traffic at the above mentioned locations and after much discussion of these problems, voted unanimously to :make the following reconnendatiom to Council: (I) That all of the parking on the north side of Mulberry Road between Starlirg Avenue and Jefferson Circle be removed at all times except on Sundays and appropriate signs be erected accordingly. (2) That Starling Avenue be widened on the east side between the emergency entrance to the Martinsvil1e General Hospital and Church Street to permit the addition of a right-turn lane on Starling AVGnue approaching the traffic signal at the intersection of Starling Avenue 2nd Church Street. (3) That all parking on the south side of Church Street between Cleveland Avenue and Starling Avenue be prohibited between the hours of 6 :00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. every day except Sundays. The Planning Co~~ission wishes also to advise COlillci1 that it is cognizant of the fact that the bigGest traffic problem confronting the City at the moment is the traffic bottleneck in the dovm-town area and it feels very strongly that parking will ultimately have to be removed from both Ma~n and Church Streets in the dovm-town area. In making the above recorrunendations, the Planning Commission considered the following information that was available from recent traffic counts in this area: