Byron Street Parking and Curve Signage

At a glance

Based on auto-generated captions plus the posted minutes; names and details may be misheard.

What: Therese Richardson asked for No Parking Anytime on one side of lower Byron St.
Where it stands: the committee filed the petition on 2026-08-19 and instead passed a chair's order for advance curve signage; the City Council adopted the order 11-0 on 2026-09-08.
Next: installation by Transportation and Mobility. A separate stop-sign petition for Byron St. (Joseph A. Ritacco) was referred on 2026-10-06.

Three lower-Byron residents opposed the parking ban. One said cars sliding down the hill in winter have hit her porch and backyard, and she fears more damage if parking moves. They suggested speed bumps or making the street one-way.
Stephen S. Rolle: the lower block is about 30 ft wide with about 200 vehicles a day, leaving 15 to 16 ft with cars on both sides. Six crashes in five years, five of them into parked cars or roadside objects. There is a 90-degree curve at the bottom and a sharp bend mid-block.
Options he named: curve signage first, then no parking about 50 ft either side of the curves, or a one-sided ban.
Robert A. Bilotta (the district councilor) agreed it is tight, noted a new apartment building nearby, floated a petition for a barrier at 66 Byron St., and was told a speed hump check is possible.

About 7 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-08-19 - Traffic and Parking Committee	7

2026-10-06 - City Council — Separate petition (9f) for stop signage at Byron St. and an adjoining street referred.
2026-09-08 - City Council — Chair's order (14h) for advanced signage on the curves adopted 11-0; the report to file the parking petition (19k) accepted 11-0.
2026-08-19 - Traffic and Parking Committee — Parking ban petition filed 2-0 in favor of Jose A. Rivera's chair's order for advance curve signage.
2026-07-21 - City Council — Petition (8z) for No Parking on lower Byron St. referred to Traffic and Parking.