Last week, while on a routine phone call to VDOT inquiring about having crosswalks from the beach to the handicapped accessible curbs across the street, as well as creating handicapped parking stalls next to the pavilion, Town Planner Larry DiRe offhandedly asked highway department representative Dale Pusey about the ‘possibility’ of having ‘front end, or pull-in’ parking installed on Bay Avenue.
The response was interesting in that Pusey remarked that there were no prohibitions on front end parking per se, and that providing for certain conditions, and if the Town could respond to certain questions asked by VDOT in a favorable way, VDOT engineers would most certainly entertain an application or permit that would allow front, pull-in parking on Bay Ave (or anywhere else in town). [Read more…]