MARSHALL — Overflow parking near the campus of Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center has led to some tight maneuvering conditions for traffic on part of Charles Avenue, Marshall city staff said this week.
“The road is fairly narrow. When you line the street with cars, it’s tough to navigate,” said Marshall city engineer Jason Anderson.
Anderson said it’s not only a problem for traffic. City maintenance vehicles also have a hard time getting past parked cars near the hospital.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Marshall City Council, council members agreed. They voted to remove on-street parking on Charles Avenue between South Minnesota Street and South Hill Street. In the same motion, the city also removed parking from portions of South Minnesota, South Hill and South Whitney Streets close to the intersection with East College Drive.
Anderson said city staff had been discussing parking issues on Charles Avenue for years.
There’s quite a bit of parking historically on this block, largely due to the Avera campus overflow,” Anderson said. “Avera’s recently improved a nearby parking area, and there is support from their maintenance arm to remove parking from the street,”
Anderson said the city did reach out to the two property owners along Charles Avenue who would be affected by the parking restrictions. They heard back from one property owner who wanted to keep the on-street parking, he said.
The two properties do have parking access to Minnesota Street and Hill Street, Anderson said.
Anderson said city council members on the Public Improvement/Transportation Committee discussed the parking proposal in November, and recommended removing the parking on Charles Avenue.
“I actually drove down this road today, and I thought ‘this is really tight,’ “ council member James Lozinski said Tuesday.
He said it’s been frustrating to see people parking on the street over the past three years, and not using Avera Marshall’s additional parking lot.
“It’s a tough situation, but I do support that we remove that parking,” Lozinski said. When a new clinic opens at Avera Marshall’s Carlson Street campus, that should also alleviate parking congestion, he said.
The remaining places where the city proposed to remove on-street parking included the last 70-100 feet of roadway near the intersections of South Minnesota Street, South Hill Street and South Whitney Street and East College Drive.
“We’ve heard concerns that it’s difficult for vehicles pulling trailers to negotiate the corners with all the cars there. Our street maintenance staff have a difficult time,” Anderson said.
“When you turn off of College Drive onto Hill, if there’s a parked car on the corner, it’s difficult,” said council member Don Edbloom.
Anderson said removing on-street parking near the intersections with College Drive would not only help with navigating the narrow streets, but it would help the city prepare for the state’s planned 2025 reconstruction of Highway 19 in Marshall.
Council members voted in favor of removing on-street parking from the affected streets.
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