TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Adam Lindsay, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, CCM, CFM, Public Services Director
Brian McGill, PE, PTOE, Assistant Public Services Director - Traffic Services
DATE: November 24, 2025
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Adopt Resolution supporting “No Parking” on Broadfoot Avenue to NCDOTTitle
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
District 5 - Lynne Greene
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal I: Safe & Secure Community
Objective 1.2: To ensure traffic and pedestrian safety.
Goal III: City investment in Today & Tomorrow
Objective 3.1: To enhance City street connectivity, traffic flow, and stormwater systems.
Executive Summary:
A resolution to NCDOT of support for the designation of “No Parking” on Broadfoot Avenue from Morganton Road to Raeford Road / Arsenal Avenue is recommended due to safety concerns.
In parallel efforts with the above, City Traffic Services staff are working with NCDOT to install parallel parking spaces on Broadfoot Avenue. The “No Parking” designations would not go into effect until the parking spaces are installed. “No Parking” would only be applicable to the roadway outside of parking spaces.
Background:
The City received and investigated complaints regarding vehicles parking along Broadfoot Avenue. City staff observed vehicles parked in a manner which violated ordinances, blocked traffic, and created hazards.
Vehicles were noted as parking on sidewalks and in travel lanes. This can cause pedestrians to walk into the road, force cars to drive into oncoming traffic, and potentially block emergency response vehicles from entering Broadfoot Avenue when entering from Morganton Road.
Broadfoot Avenue, from Morganton Road to Raeford Road / Arsenal Avenue is under the ownership of NCDOT.
To address concerns with parking on Broadfoot Avenue, the City has submitted an encroachment permit (E062-026-25-0096) to NCDOT, as well as a request for City Traffic Services to install parallel parking spaces on Broadfoot Avenue. The proposed approximate parallel parking space locations are included as an attachment to this agenda item.
City Traffic Services are requesting NCDOT install “No Parking” signage along Broadfoot Avenue upon completion of the parallel parking spaces due to safety concerns and to reinforce ordinances more visibly. NCDOT requires a resolution from the City prior to installing “No Parking” signs and having them be enforced with ordinances. These signs would be installed by NCDOT and applicable to the roadway outside of any current or future parking spaces on Broadfoot Avenue.
The resolution and request to NCDOT has been worded in a manner so that it becomes applicable once parallel parking spaces associated with encroachment permit E062-026-25-00996 have been installed on Broadfoot Avenue.
Issues/Analysis:
Attached to this agenda item are the pictures of safety concerns and ordinance violations. The formal response refer to photos in attachments. Ordinance violations and safety concerns were identified under the following:
City of Fayetteville Code of Ordinances, Chapter 16, “Motor Vehicles and Traffic”, Article X, “Parking”:
• Section 16-294 Obstructing Passage of Other Vehicles
o No vehicles shall so stand on any street as to interrupt or interfere with the passage of public conveyances or other vehicles.
o The vehicles parked as shown in “IMG_6888.jpg” and “IMG_6890.jpg” could be considered as interfering with the passage of other vehicles if the other vehicles were forced to leave the lane (meaning cross the double yellow centerline).
• Section 16-295 Streets on Which Parking Prohibited at All Times
o When signs are placed, erected or installed giving notice thereof…
o There is a “No Parking Any Time →” sign located at approximately 199 Broadfoot Avenue per Google Street View. This in effect makes Broadfoot Avenue from Arsenal Avenue to Morganton Road “No Parking”.
• Section 16-300 Places in Which Parking Prohibited
o No person shall…park a vehicle…in any of the following places:
▪ On a sidewalk (IMG_6899.jpg; Arguably IMG_6888.jpg & 6890.jpg)
Per Chapter 30, “Unified Development Ordinance”, Article 30-5.F.4.a, “Streets”, the following section is applicable:
• 12. Sight Distance Triangles
o No object…shall interfere with visibility within the sight distance triangle of an intersection of streets...
o Sight triangles of 20 feet by 20 feet as measured from the intersection of right-of-way lines shall be preserved at all intersections (see Figure 30-5.F.4.a.12, Sight Distance Triangles).
o Additional sight triangles of ten feet by 70 feet shall be provided for access onto thoroughfare streets.
o This means no vehicle should park within 20 feet of an intersection. Based on IMG_6888.jpg, the silver SUV closest to the intersection may be in violation of this.
Finally, North Carolina General Statute § 20-162. “Parking in front of private driveway, fire hydrant, fire station, intersection of curb lines or fire lane”:
• (a) No person shall park a vehicle…upon a highway in front of a private driveway…nor within 25 feet from the intersection of curb lines or if none, then within 15 feet of the intersection of property lines at an intersection of highways; …
o Regarding “…nor within 25 feet from the intersection of curb lines or if none, then within 15 feet of the intersection of property lines at an intersection of highways; …”.
▪ Based on IMG_6888.jpg, the silver SUV closest to the intersection would be in violation of this general statute.
▪ For parking a specific distance from an intersection, it would be whichever is more restrictive. In this particular instance, it appears to be the 25 foot requirement of NC G.S. 20-162.
Budget Impact:
The installation of signs and the passing of the resolution will not have an impact on the budget. All sign installation and maintenance costs would be that of NCDOT.
Options:
Support the “No Parking” resolution to NCDOT.
Reject the resolution and request additional information.
Recommended Action::Recommended Action
Staff recommends Council move to adopt the “No Parking” resolution.
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Attachments:
No Parking Broadfoot Avenue Resolution.pdf
Broadfoot Avenue Violation Pictures.pdf
Broadfoot Ave Parking Plan_Revised.pdf