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<br /> r~ s <br /> Public Works <br /> City of Eugene <br /> N E W S R E L E A S E 858 Pearl Street <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br /> November 3 ,1990 (503) 687-5262 <br /> CONTACT: ob Hammitt, Maintenance Director, 687-5220 <br /> Gene Shutt, Maintenance Supervisor, 687-5220 <br /> From Sand a Gleason, Public Information, 687-5223 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> I <br /> CITY ADOPTS EMERGENCY ICE/SNOW ORDINANCE <br /> j The ugene City Council recently adopted a new emergency ice/snow <br /> ordinance that will enable the city to ban all parking along priority one, <br /> II two, and hree streets during a weather emergency. A weather emergency is <br /> defined a sleet, freezing rain, or icy weather or when more than one inch of <br /> snow accu ulates on streets within the city limits. While the ordinance is <br /> in effect all parking along priority one, two, and three streets would be <br /> banned un it the emergency was over. The ordinance also gives the city the <br /> authority to tow vehicles parked or stranded along priority routes, and to <br /> close any street to vehicular or pedestrian traffic. <br /> ` ~ If fo some reason a vehicle becomes stalled on a route where a parking <br /> ban is in effect, the driver would have to take immediate action to have the <br /> vehicle t wed or pushed to the first road that was not a designated snow <br /> emergency route. <br /> Acco ding to city of Eugene Maintenance Director Bob Hammitt, parking <br /> vehicles long icy and snowy streets often hampers emergency snow plowing and <br /> ` sanding o erations and can create problems for motorists traveling on icy <br /> streets. Keeping critical snow routes open ensures that emergency vehicles, <br /> buses, an traffic can move safely around town, Hammitt continued. <br /> more <br /> <br />