12-07-1983 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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Minutes,. Regular~eeting, December 7, 1983, Page 7 La Porte City Cou~l • Askins: There was a compromise reached between the National League of Cities representing the cities, and the cable TV industry on a bill. After this was done, a lot of cities got very unhappy and really felt like- the National League of Cities sold out the cities. A lot of the major cities of the country said the National League of Cities does not speak for us on that bill, because it essentially stripped away local authority and control of the cable TV both on the renewal of franchises, setting of rates and regulation of quality of service. I don't think that bill will pass because it doesn't have the support of a lot of the cities. Skelton: The one Congressman Bryant had did have the TML support from what I've heard. Cline: Yes. Did you sit in on any of that discussion at the tea conference? Skelton: No, I missed that. I was sitting in on something e Cline: Even the NLC couldn't agree among themselves what was g~-and what was bad for the cities. I agree, Councilman Skelton; we need to write our Congressmen so they will be aware of how we feel about it. • Owen: I received a letter from Congressman Andrews recently. fought I had passed it on to Council but apparently I didn't, indicating these bills would not come up for committee hearings until Congress reconvenes. Cline: Jack, I think we're going to have to do something but the traffic on Fairmont Parkway in the crossovers in front of the shopping areas. The area in front of Walgreen's and Kroger's is getting dangerous. As you're coming out there's cars swinging around through the crossover and heading in where they shouldn't be. If they'd just go down a couple of blocks and then make their U-turn and come back and come in on .the right side, but they won't do it. What can we do to get this flow of traffic corrected? Owen: We've studied this. ever since the first opening of Fairmont Parkway. It is a problem, and in fact, we'have a problem of our own created somewhat the same way, coming east on Fairmont Parkway and turning back to the north into the first driveway. At first we thought we could handle it with signs,. but we couldn't come up with any sign that will be legal that we could enforce. that would prevent them from coming across. Of course, you cannot enter on that other side, legally. The solution would be to try to get those people to move their driveways. Some of our staff has agreed to contact the stores • there and see if we can get those driveways moved. That's the only solution really, that I know.