OJAI : Committee to Aid 1-Way Street Study
The Ojai City Council has decided to create a special committee to assist a consultant studying whether Ojai Avenue should become a one-way street through downtown.
The seven-member committee will include a member of the Planning Commission, two members of the Redevelopment Agency, two people appointed by the Ojai Chamber of Commerce and two members from the public, City Manager Andrew Belknap said.
Creating a one-way street through downtown has been considered for years as a way to ease traffic and parking problems, Belknap said.
The committee will study the effects that the one-way street would have on downtown businesses as well as on the rest of the city, Belknap said.
A consultant’s engineering study now under way is designed to analyze the effects of combining a one-way route eastbound through downtown on Ojai Avenue with a westbound route on a parallel street, possibly Matilija Street, Public Works Director Stan Moore said.
“One of the committee’s main jobs will be helping the consultant work on a series of workshops planned to familiarize the community with the idea,” Belknap said.
The first workshop will be in April. Applications are being accepted at City Hall for the two at-large positions.
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