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Casey's General Store needs more room to get fuel and grocery shipments into its convenience store at 1219 W. Second St.
The Second Street widening project has closed the store's northside driveways.
To help the store, the Nebraska Department of Roads is asking the Grand Island City Council to designate a no-parking zone on the side street nearest Casey's.
That's Adams Street, which is currently serving as the exit point for McDonald's Restaurant drive-through customers. Adams is also one of only three north/south streets left open during the first-phase of the Second Street/Highway 30 construction project.
"We're asking for it to be no parking from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. at nighttime," said Scott Griepenstroh, the Department of Roads project manager. "It's just a little more room for McDonald's people to park during the day, but at night they need to be out of there."
Casey's store manager Ray Johnson said the store hasn't had a delivery since the north driveways were closed. He's hoping that the store's fuel and grocery semis can get in with more of Adams Street available
"It will make a bigger swing for them," he said. "But we might even have to use the street to unload."
The city already enacted a no-parking zone on Third Street, which is serving as the detour for eastbound highway traffic, from Clark to Grant.
The no-parking zone on Adams, which is to be just half a block from Second Street south to the alley, is expected to be approved by the city council Tuesday night.
Also going before the council Tuesday is ratification of newly appointed board members to the Second Street business improvement district.
Mayor Margaret Hornady appointed the seven members. They are Bob Dodendorf, Mike Wanek, Dallas Kime, Phil Maltzahn, Cheryl Nietfeldt, Randy Evans and Bill Raile.
If the appointments are ratified Tuesday, the Second Street board could begin refining the official boundaries of the improvement district, setting a district budget and calculating the tax levy to each of the properties in the district.
Each property owner who would be assessed the tax will then be given an opportunity to vote on creating the district. It's a protest vote, meaning that the district will be created unless more than 50 percent of the property owners oppose it.
The hope is that the district will design and finance landscaping and special walkway lighting through the project from Greenwich to Grant.
On the agenda
Other issues before the city council Tuesday include:
* Awarding a $20,770 contract to Middleton Electric of Grand Island to supply electrical service to nine camper pads at the Heartland Public Shooting Park.
* Extending a 20-inch water main that is currently in Old Potash Highway at the west side of the Copper Creek Estates development. The line would be extended to the west to Engleman Road and then to the north to 13th Street.
* Revising part of Chapter 29 in city code relating to food services. The revisions include a relaxing of temporary food sale permits for nonprofit organizations in certain cases.
* Reverting the commercial development zoning for the Ponderosa Pointe open air mall at Highway 281/Husker Highway and the Kings Crossing development at South Locust/Highway 34 due to lack of commercial development at both locations. Ponderosa Pointe would revert to TA Transitional Agriculture while Kings Crossing would revert to B2 General Business.
* Awarding a $62,625 contract to Gary Smith Construction for 2,000 tons of hot-mix asphalt.
* Awarding a $110,800 contract to Consolidated Concrete for 1,600 cubic yards of Portland cement concrete.
* Awarding a $248,535 contract to Midwest Towers of Chichasha, Okla., to rebuild the cooling tower at the Platte Generating Station.
* Recognizing Dave Chavez for 30 years of service in the Public Works Department, Streets and Transportation Division.
* Recognizing Ron Underwood, civil engineering manager, for 40 years of service in the Public Works Department.
If you go
What: Grand Island City Council meeting.
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Where: Grand Island City Hall, 100 E. First St.
Topics: Appointing the board of directors for the Second Street improvement district, authorizing electrical connections to new camper pads at the Heartland Public Shooting Park
Another 'no-parking' zone sought on Adams Street
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