CAPE MAY – City Council moved its governing body meeting to Facebook April 7 due to the spreading COVID-19 contagion. Despite the new meeting method, one of the issues that motivated public comment was parking.
Two measures were on the agenda that dealt with the city’s perennial struggle with parking. One proposed changing the metered parking on Washington Street, directly across from City Hall, to 15-minute parking for those conducting city business. The other would alter traffic on Bank Street to one way, as an effort to better utilize the narrow street to support traffic, parking and deliveries to commercial establishments.
Both prompted numerous calls and emails, as City Clerk Erin Burke tried to manage public input to the virtual meeting.
The attempt to introduce an ordinance on Bank Street’s traffic flow failed, as public objections led the council to remove the ordinance from the agenda. One resident’s email accused the council of engineering a “sneak attack” on the Bank Street issue while the public was sequestered at home.
The proposal to change the meters across from City Hall was a discussion item at the council work session. It, too, generated strong opposition from the few residents able to comment during the meeting.
No actions were taken on either issue.
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Cape May’s Parking Tension Remains
By Vince Conti
April 12, 2020 • UPDATED 5/15/23
CAPE MAY – City Council moved its governing body meeting to Facebook April 7 due to the spreading COVID-19 contagion. Despite the new meeting method, one of the issues that motivated public comment was parking.
Two measures were on the agenda that dealt with the city’s perennial struggle with parking. One proposed changing the metered parking on Washington Street, directly across from City Hall, to 15-minute parking for those conducting city business. The other would alter traffic on Bank Street to one way, as an effort to better utilize the narrow street to support traffic, parking and deliveries to commercial establishments.
Both prompted numerous calls and emails, as City Clerk Erin Burke tried to manage public input to the virtual meeting.
The attempt to introduce an ordinance on Bank Street’s traffic flow failed, as public objections led the council to remove the ordinance from the agenda. One resident’s email accused the council of engineering a “sneak attack” on the Bank Street issue while the public was sequestered at home.
The proposal to change the meters across from City Hall was a discussion item at the council work session. It, too, generated strong opposition from the few residents able to comment during the meeting.
No actions were taken on either issue.
Spout Off
Cape May – The number one reason I didn’t vote for Donald Trump was January 6th and I found it incredibly sad that so many Americans turned their back on what happened that day when voting. I respect that the…
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Dennis Township – The only thing that trump is going to make great again is total amorality, fraud, rape, treason and crime in general. His whole administration will be a gathering of rapists, russian assets, drunks,…
Read More
Avalon – During the Biden presidency and the Harris campaign, the Democrats told us over and over again that the president has nothing to do with, and can nothing about the price of eggs at the grocery store…
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