Five Things to Know About City Council's Thursday Agenda
City will seek grants to improve safe bicycle route and to rebuild three blocks of Asbury Avenue.
City Council has a full agenda for its public meeting 7 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 11) in Council Chambers on third floor of City Hall, but here are five things that might be of special interest. (See attached PDF for supporting documentation on all agenda items.)
- City Council will vote on the second and potentially final reading of an amended ordinance that requires irrigation system workers to be "properly licensed." The local ordinance mimics a state regulation but gives Ocean City the teeth to enforce it. Violations will be punishable by a $250 fine for a first offense and subsequent $500 fines.
- City Council will vote on the second and potentially final reading of an ordinance that appropriates $165,000 to pay for the continued demolition of the Bellevue Hotel. Firefighters responded to a massive fire at the century-old building the day after City Council passed the first reading (Sept. 27). The money comes from an existing fund for capital projects. The city will have the first lien on the property and hopes to reimburse its capital fund when the vacant property sells.
- City Council will vote to apply for a $100,000 state transportation grant to install a user-activated traffic signal to help bicyclists cross Ninth Street on their way to and from the new Route 52 causeway. The signal and crossing would be located near the Haven Avenue intersection. It would also provide a Ninth Street crossing for bicycles traveling the length of Ocean City on a proposed safe bicycle corridor.
- City Council will vote to apply for a $106,000 state transportation grant to build a bikeway behind the Ocean City Primary School. The path would add an important link to a proposed bicycle corridor from the Ocean City-Longport Bridge to the Corson's Inlet Bridge.
- City Council will vote to apply for state transportation aid to reconstruct Asbury Avenue between 39th and 42nd streets and to reconstruct 42nd Street between Central and West avenues.
Sam
8:37 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
How do we justify the continual repair of all the streets in the city EXCEPT in the gardens and north end where most people actually live. Our roads are terrible!
Duffer
9:00 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The bikeway behind the school is a total waste of money!!!!! The bikeway is already there. I ride my bike on it at least 3 or 4 times a week. Never had a problem navigating it. Its paved and smooth and there is plenty of light at night. There is no need to spend a single taxpayer's dollar to make changes to what is already there.
jeff
10:56 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Hey Duffer: Don't you know who is behind all the money being spent on biking in Ocean City?? This gives 2 guys with no lives, something to do. And sure, why repair roads and drainage systems when we throw money at biking for a ghost town - why 2 guys with no lives who are relentless and have nothing important going on and have no reason to get up in the morning talk to them you must know who they are
vic
10:59 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
i use the path behind the primary school every day when i bike to the aquatic center. what's wrong with the path in it's present state? it's wide enough for several bikes, there are no pot holes. we don't need an expressway, all we need is a bike path, and the one that we presently have is more than adequate. use the money to try to eliminate all of the flooding problems that we have in ocean city. that's more of a priority than redoing the bike path.