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OF 20TH AVENUE AND 4TH STREET IN REGARD TO LOWERING OF THE SPEED AND INSTALLING SPEED BUMPS TO THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT,AND THEY MADE A SURVEY. THEIR SURVEY INDICATES THE SPEED -LIMIT -SHOULD BE REDUCED, AND ALSO THAT STRIPS SHOULD BE PLACED THERE, COMMISSIONER LYONS ASKED IF THE REPORT DID NOT ALSO INDICATE THAT A STOP LIGHT WOULD BE DESIRABLE INSTEAD OF THE STOP SIGNS. MR. NELSON AGREED THAT IT DID, BUT FELT THAT REDUCING THE SPEED AND PUTTING IN THE STRIPS SHOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, AND THE CHAIRMAN FELT THAT ONE OF THE BASIC PROBLEMS IS THAT EVERY ROAD RUNNING EAST AND WEST THROUGH 20TH AVENUE IS A THROUGH STREET EXCEPT AT 4TH STREET (CITRUS) WHERE THE EAST - WEST ROAD BECOMES THE STOP STREET. HE FELT VERY STRONGLY THAT IN SOME PARTICULAR AREAS, A TRAFFIC LIGHT IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE A WHOLE LOT OF PROBLEMS AND STATED HE WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER A FOUR-WAY STOP STREET. COMMISSIONER LOY DISCUSSED EXCESSIVE TRAFFIC SPEEDS AND WAS OF THE OPINION WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING DRASTIC AT THIS INTERSECTION - POSSIBLY INSTALLING BOTH FOUR-WAY STOP SIGNS.AND'RUMBLE STRIPS. ISR. NELSON COMMENTED THAT IT IS NOW A COUNTY ROAD AND WE CAN DO THIS. DISCUSSION CONTINUED AS TO THE DESIRABILITY OF FOUR-WAY STOP STREETS. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DEESON THAT, BASED ON THE REQUEST FROM THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL, THE COUNTY INSTALL FOUR-WAY STOP SIGNS AT THE INTERSECTION OF 20TH AVENUE AND 4TH STREET AND INSTALL RUMBLE STRIPS ON BOTH ROADS LEADING UP -TO THIS INTERSECTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT POINTED OUT THAT THE HIGHWAY PATROL MIGHT NOT THINK THAT A FOUR-WAY STOP STREET IS THE PROPER ANSWER, AND THE t BOARD AGREED THIS SHOULD BE CHECKED OUT. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. PERSONNEL DIRECTOR DONLON CAME BEFORE THE BOARD TO DISCUSS THE HIRING OF A COUNTY PLANNING DIRECTOR TO REPLACE FORMER PLANNING & ZONING 63 wK 39 fAcAU