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(1) Petitions to close City of Covington streets shall be filed with the Public Works Director.

(2) Said petitions shall include: the names, signatures and legal addresses of the persons filing the petition; the location of the roads or streets which the petitioners wish to have closed, including the intersections delineating the boundaries of the road or street sections to be closed; a map depicting the road or street sections requested to be closed; and the reasons for petitioning for closure of the street or road. Other information or documents as the petitioners deem pertinent may be included. Petitions for street closures shall include the names and signatures of at least a simple majority of the owners of property residing along the section(s) of the street being petitioned for closure and the signatures of at least 10 percent of the owners of property being served by arterial streets and neighborhood collector streets to which traffic would be diverted within a distance of 660 feet from the street section petitioned for closure.

(3) Reasons for petitioning the City for the closure of a street shall be limited to safety hazards posed to pedestrians, contiguous real property, and/or traffic such as, but not limited to, traffic speeds, volume, or types of vehicle using the road or street, the adequacy of road signage, and road design considerations.

(4) Petitioners shall submit whatever quantitative or other analyses they may possess in support of their petition, such as traffic volumes or counts, or numbers of accidents which have occurred on the road or street petitioned to be closed.

(5) The Director may consider a request for street closure which is not in conformance with the petition provisions of this chapter from any person. The decision of the Director on such a request shall not be subject to the provisions of CMC 12.50.030. (Amended at request of department 2/08; Ord. 20-07 § 19; Ord. 38-02 § 2 (12.38.020))