City staff is replacing about 60 signs around downtown Denton that incorrectly include "parking lots" as a place where vehicles or toy devices are prohibited.
City staff is replacing about 60 signs around downtown Denton that incorrectly include "parking lots" as a place where vehicles or toy devices are prohibited.
Christian McPhate/DRC City staff is replacing about 60 signs around downtown Denton that incorrectly include “parking lots” as a place where vehicles or toy devices are prohibited.A red circle with a red line crosses over images of a bicycle, a rollerblade and roller skate and a person on a skateboard on what appear to be fairly new signs on street corners around the downtown Square in Denton.
Underneath, the signs read, “Vehicle and toy devices prohibited on sidewalks and parking lots — City Ordinance 2004 187.”
Yet, city ordinance 2004-187 applies to sidewalks, not parking lots. The city code reads “Vehicles and toy devices prohibited on sidewalks in designated areas.”
It continues: “When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate a bicycle, motor assisted scooter, neighborhood electric device, skateboard, roller skates, roller blades, or other similar device at any time on any sidewalks running adjacent to the streets listed below.”
Those streets include Pecan, Cedar, Oak, Hickory, Walnut, Austin, Elm and Locust and where they intersect.
Now city staff has to replace them. Only it’s not just a few signs, but approximately 60 signs around downtown, said Justin Harmon, a city spokesperson.
“We are not aware of the cause of the error,” Harmon wrote in Tuesday afternoon email to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
It’s also unclear how long the signs have been up before the error was noticed, but Harmon mentioned they were in the process of updating signs. He didn’t respond to requests for additional information by Wednesday afternoon.
Prompting some review, Mayor Gerard Hudspeth requested information about the signs in the June 2 report from city staff.
City staff responded with information from the ordinance, mentioned that the signs are located in an area around the Square and stressed that it “does not apply to any mobility impaired individual using a motorized device.”
“Staff is currently reviewing the ordinance and will update signage to remove references to parking lots,” city staff wrote in response to the mayor’s request.
The city expects it will take two to three weeks to manufacture and replace the signs, totaling $6,000, according to Harmon.
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CHRISTIAN McPHATE can be reached at 940-220-4299 and via Twitter at @writerontheedge.
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